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I’ve had some very odd things happen in my life lately and it seemed not only appropriate but almost necessary to tell you folks about it.
Aren’t you glad you stopped by?
The picture below will tell you all you need to know about my commute into Boston this morning.
The train I was riding in was empty.
No people.
Just me.
It was empty for the first two stops.
Very strange.
Sitting alone on a moving train at 6AM on a weekday is not only odd but it’s really creepy in a ‘Rod Serling, Twilight Zone’ kind of way.
No human voices or announcements, just the cracking metal creaks, low scraping groans and the desperate sounds of a wheezing ventilation system filling the wee hours of a Thursday morning ride.
I made it to Boston, falling asleep somewhere after Framingham . . .
My mail slot has produced some definite weirdness over the past few weeks as well.
I got a bill from a geriatric/medical place for my mother, in care of me.
The bill originated from the assisted living place she left in 2000.
I’ve now received two bills and have made as many phone calls to the company.
The last several years of her life she had no dentures because she had lost every set we had made.
It got too damn expensive to make any more.
Guess what this bill was for?
You got it- a case of Crest toothpaste.
Shoot me.
Monday morning I woke up at 4:30AM and the first thought in my mind was,
“I wonder how tall Bing Crosby was?”
I kid you not.
You can’t make this kind of shit up.
Before you go to Google, he was 5′ 7″ tall.
Here I was thinking he was taller.
Whatever courses through my brain at that time of the morning should be sanitized and bottled.
I’m thinking if it were administered properly, it could be used to interrogate criminals.
Or not.
Just a thought.
Any weird stuff happen to you today?
not as weird as “bing” first thing… but there was a military officer attending the same class i attended today. special operations colonel based on his patchwork. his haircut was ALMOST regulation. But he had 2″ long mini-Elvis Presley sideburns.
if i were his commanding officer? i’d tweeze the damn things one hair at a time while the whole organization watched. but that’s just me…
heheh .. I had to chuckle at the Crest toothpaste ..
Though I’ve never had the opportunity to ride a train in Boston, I would like to assume that it’d be kinda nice to be alone .. to actually hear the sounds .. odd and creepy, yes . . but soothing enough to *ahem* make someone fall asleep.
That being alone on the train thing would have creeped me out, totally.
Sounds like your head is as bad as mine…not that there’s anything wrong with that!
I will say that having the train to myself would have been a good thing, even with it being an odd thing to have happen….damn I hope that made sense??
i always have strange dreams. once i woke up wondering how i was going to get my cadillac convertible out of the lake that it had sunk to the bottom of – of course i don’t own such a car and live nowhere near a lake. the sheriff was hospitable though, he offered me coffee and sticky buns.
sarah
Ha!! Just me showing up is weird enough!!! Actually yesterday I was convinced that everyone was out to get me and that I might not make it through the day. I did…obviously. Today is much better. Hope you are doing well, aside from the weirdness. Empty train….very weird!
Yeah. It’s amazing how those random things just surface in your mind at that hour. I have my weirdest and best ideas before the dawn.
That sounds like a pretty ghostly train ride – did you cross over into another dimension for a spell there?
Kat
I was thinking earlier that I need to start writing down my first thoughts in the morning, some are downright odd! Then I came here and read this…. that’s the only weird thing that I can think of today.. so far.
A ride alone on an empty train would be a little creepy…. however, a ride with the right person on an empty train could be interesting
Sounds like things are better now?? Hope so.