# Your latest surreal experience?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-surreal-experience/752966>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 24, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-surreal-experience/752966 "2016-04-24T00:49:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-surreal-experience/752966/21 "2016-04-26T20:22:59Z")

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This morning the wife wakes me up to say “OMG, I think a bear got into the backyard --the bark on one of the pine trees is torn off to about six feet high!”

It sure looked like bear doings, but upon closer inspection it was puppy work. Baxter, the 4-month-old pit bull, apparently found a piece of bark to tug on and it came off in a huge chunk. He must have done it during the night pee-pee break.

Not terribly surreal, but on Sunday I passed a Jeep Grand Cherokee that was identical to mine; because I’ve added post-market equipment, it was rather odd (chrome runner, chrome bumper, fancy hitch, full roof racks, and Thule kayak racks). And the same rather rare color.

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-surreal-experience/752966/22 "2016-04-28T05:43:59Z")

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A few months ago, stopping at the 24-hour supermarket for some dinner after getting off graveyard, a slightly disheveled but perfectly coherent fellow near the entrance politely asked me what the date was.

After I told him, he asked “…what _year?_”

:eek:

Well, after getting the answer, he thanked me and left. He didn’t seem upset, so I guess the time machine worked.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-surreal-experience/752966/23 "2016-04-28T19:50:48Z")

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A few years ago, a friend and I were about to enter a Mexican restaurant. A man stood be the entrance wearing a sign. On it were the words BAD SIGN.

He was still there when we left. I went up to him and said “Don’t worry. Say your prayers and one day it will be a Good Sign.”

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-surreal-experience/752966/24 "2016-04-29T19:34:32Z")

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This morning I went to the library’s book sale and picked up a book on Nostradamus. I thought of the Edgar Leoni book I had on the subject that finally fell apart, I read it so much. It was not there in the morning.

This afternoon I went back to the book sale and there was the Leoni book, complete with dust jacket. I bought it.

How surreal is that.

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