Twilight Zone
Sometimes the past can reach up through the years and tap the present on its shoulder. It's surreal, you feel a touch off-track. A bit out-of-sorts and off-kilter. Like a skip in the record. Then the world shifts ever so slightly and everything returns to normal once again.
posted by jay are at 6:23 PM
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8:12 PM, January 14, 2006
c'mon now, don't tease us...
8:13 PM, January 14, 2006
that's all she wrote! :)
8:27 PM, January 14, 2006
seriously, you're such a tease.
8:31 PM, January 14, 2006
condensed version: my oldest son had an all-day wrestling tournament in a nearby town. He attended with my husband. They just happened to sit down, in a gymnasium full of people, right next to an old boyfriend of mine who I'd once been quite serious with. Lots of little details but that's the crux of it. I know it sounds not quite so weird as I made it, but it was fairly strange.
8:56 PM, January 14, 2006
Ok you're freakin me out!
11:06 PM, January 14, 2006
Ummmmmm, don't quite know what to say to that :)
12:15 AM, January 15, 2006
Oooo. Thanks for the reminder....I've got to write the story of dinner at my ex's and his new wife's house, with my hubby.
And you're right, the past does have a way of sneaking up and pinching you in the arse!
12:55 PM, January 15, 2006
exactly! looking forward to your story....
1:12 PM, January 15, 2006
I have had several experiences that validate your observation. The most recent was running into a kid—well, now a man—who was a resident in a group home I managed almost 30 years ago. He recognized me—I would never have recognized him. I asked how he was doing and he told me that he had spent 15 of the past 30 years in prison. His words were, for me, like a kick in my belly.
9:05 PM, January 15, 2006
SSN, that's one of my fears - i'll meet someone who was a client of mine and they'll deliver a similar "punch in the stomach".
9:32 PM, January 15, 2006
we can be so unprepared sometimes for when the past meets the present.
10:00 PM, January 15, 2006
Then there was that time when I was at a Dairy Queen and sitting across from me was the very same cyborg that performed those awful experiments on me during my abduction eight years ago. Wow, did that take me back!
6:44 PM, January 16, 2006
wow, unca, that must've been a little creepy, eh? some deja vu you could've done without.
1:14 PM, January 17, 2006
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