eXisor
June 1st, 2007, 05:47 PM
Some things that have happened to me just have to make me think... What are the odds?
An example.
Many years ago, before cellphones, a couple of buddies and I were going to a bar for after-work drinks. Our girlfriends and another buddy were going to meet us later, making drinks into supper, supper into drinks, you get the idea.
Having parked our cars in a make-shift parking lot (it's a ZA thing), Garth, Tony and I walked towards the pub, passing a phone-booth along the way. The phone started ringing.
Usually I'd probably not even notice, but since I was lagging slightly behind and in good spirits, I thought, hey, let me help someone out: meaning this is a public phone in the middle-of-nowhere, so wrong number?
In any event, I answered and my buddy Phillip, who was to meet us later, slightly nonplussed, said, Oh, he thought he was phoning Garth to tell him to go on without him, the Garth who was by then fifteen paces ahead of me and had without benefit of call done exactly that.
Huh? Phillip? Do you know you just called a phonebooth I happened to be walking by?
Of course since Garth was not at home where Phillip was trying to reach him, this freak connection was probably the only way for Phillip to reach Garth at that moment in time, like some super-psychic-operator thought, yeah, it's meaningless and trivial enough, this I gotta do. Let's givem something to think about.
So i called Garth to complete that psychic connection, not telling him a thing beyond that it was for him. He thought I was taking-the-**** so was a little weary at first, but gobsmacked astonishment later, Phillip, how.... and eventually Tony got to bear witness too.
Strangest thing this synchronicity.
I have other instances, but I'd hate to get ahead of myself.
So tell me what you think and relate the inexpicable things that have happened to you.
An example.
Many years ago, before cellphones, a couple of buddies and I were going to a bar for after-work drinks. Our girlfriends and another buddy were going to meet us later, making drinks into supper, supper into drinks, you get the idea.
Having parked our cars in a make-shift parking lot (it's a ZA thing), Garth, Tony and I walked towards the pub, passing a phone-booth along the way. The phone started ringing.
Usually I'd probably not even notice, but since I was lagging slightly behind and in good spirits, I thought, hey, let me help someone out: meaning this is a public phone in the middle-of-nowhere, so wrong number?
In any event, I answered and my buddy Phillip, who was to meet us later, slightly nonplussed, said, Oh, he thought he was phoning Garth to tell him to go on without him, the Garth who was by then fifteen paces ahead of me and had without benefit of call done exactly that.
Huh? Phillip? Do you know you just called a phonebooth I happened to be walking by?
Of course since Garth was not at home where Phillip was trying to reach him, this freak connection was probably the only way for Phillip to reach Garth at that moment in time, like some super-psychic-operator thought, yeah, it's meaningless and trivial enough, this I gotta do. Let's givem something to think about.
So i called Garth to complete that psychic connection, not telling him a thing beyond that it was for him. He thought I was taking-the-**** so was a little weary at first, but gobsmacked astonishment later, Phillip, how.... and eventually Tony got to bear witness too.
Strangest thing this synchronicity.
I have other instances, but I'd hate to get ahead of myself.
So tell me what you think and relate the inexpicable things that have happened to you.