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"Some years back, I had a occupation with a non-medical location attraction company."
"A batch of the clip my shifts were either taking idiosyncratic to the appointments they could nary longer thrust to due to the fact that of wellness issues, oregon staying astatine someone's location with their precise babelike household subordinate they cared for, portion they did thing retired of their house.
One evening I had a 4 hr displacement fundamentally giving a superior caregiver a break, and I amusement up astatine the address, and present myself. When the pistillate who answered the doorway hears my alternatively antithetic name, she says slowly,
'Where are you from?'
I told her the sanction of the municipality I grew up in, successful a antithetic state. And she says, 'Were your parents named (dad's name) and (mum's name)?' I'm present precise confused, and she explains. She was my parent's neighbour earlier I was born. She moved away, and mislaid interaction with them aft I was a mates weeks old. And somehow, implicit 20 years later, fractional mode crossed the country, successful an wholly antithetic state, I picked up a azygous displacement fundamentally making definite her mother-in-law was good and harmless portion the remainder of the household had a uncommon evening out.
(Not giving immoderate aesculapian details beyond the information her mother-in-law could not beryllium near alone, and it would beryllium precise hard and stressful to instrumentality her to meal and a movie with the remainder of the family)."
"Okay, this is not precisely what you’re asking, due to the fact that it is the astir low-stakes happening ever. But the coincidence conscionable blows my mind. Last twelvemonth I was connected a roadworthy travel with my BFF of 40+ years."
"I asked her what band/artist her hubby would take to perceive to for an full twelvemonth if helium could lone prime one. She said decidedly Rush. He called later, and she asked him, and helium said Steely Dan. Which is an good choice, but they’ve been joined since 2001, and she had nary thought helium had immoderate beardown feelings for steely Dan.
Three months aboriginal and 5 states away, I americium visiting a antithetic friend, who has ne'er met my BFF. I asked her the aforesaid question astir her husband. She says he’d prime Rush, nary question. He comes backmost from the bathroom, and she asks him. And helium says Steely-fucking-Dan."
"When I was ten, the chickenhearted pox microorganism attacked my brain. I had expansive mal seizures, spent a week and a fractional successful a coma, and was clinically dormant 3 times. I had to relearn everything: walking, talking, eating, dressing, the names of friends and family... EVERYTHING."
"I was similar a elephantine two-year-old. They told my parents aboriginal connected that IF I survived – and that was a beauteous large 'if' – I'd walk the remainder of my beingness successful a wheelchair drooling connected a napkin. I went connected to enactment successful precocious placement classes. In precocious school, I was a performance band, marching band, pep band, and adjacent joined a section orchestra! I person a borderline genius IQ."
"1969. The Atlanta International Pop Festival. I was a information guard, moving the performer's gate. A limo would propulsion in, whoever was determination would hop connected the fender and nonstop the operator astir to the performer's trailers wherever they waited for their slot. Here's the limo. I hop connected and distant we go."
"We get to the trailers and I unfastened the backmost door. Out steps Janis Joplin. She hands maine this immense associated with an adjacent bigger smile. I deed it, of course, and she invited maine successful to decorativeness it. I coiled up staying determination astir 30 minutes conscionable yakking distant with her, stoned retired of my gourd.
Nobody ever believed that story. BUT... determination is simply a documentary astir Duane Allman called Duane Allman, Song Of The South. At 1:17:00, it starts talking astir The Allman Brothers playing astatine that festival – their archetypal large gig. At 1:17:50, the camera pans to the right, and determination I americium successful each my 17-year-old glory, wearing my information defender uniform. Just an hr oregon truthful earlier this communicative happened."
"I astir drowned successful a cattle dung pit arsenic a five-year-old."
"Background: My dada wanted to commencement a dairy and poultry concern aft his vocation arsenic an service officer. We had a immense field, with a shallow watercourse astatine the acold extremity – distant from the house. Us kids loved to play successful it. So the layout astir was: roadworthy house, yard, cowshed, cattle dung pit, field, stream. This pit was astir apt 20 oregon much feet heavy and across. It was utilized for cooking gas. So cattle dung was mixed with h2o and poured into the pit. It was the consistency of barroom batter, maybe. But the precocious crust was adust due to the fact that of the prima and air.
On the day, my household was successful the yard, and they hired labourers to travel and enactment connected the fields. I asked for support to spell on with them and play successful the watercourse arsenic they worked. Mum said yes, and I followed them. A fewer steps in, and we reached the portion of the way beyond the cowshed. But the way had a chopped successful it (to fto h2o into the field) which was excessively large for five-year-old maine to cross.
As the labourer girls skipped implicit it, I asked them for help. I conjecture they didn't perceive me. I saw them walking up and wanted to follow. On 1 broadside was the tract – excessively heavy down for me. On the different side, I saw the crust furniture of the cattle dung. Not knowing what it was, I thought I could locomotion implicit it and travel the girls. As I took 2 steps connected it, I started sinking. Horrified, I realised what was happening. I sank down to my chest, and my arms held maine successful place. I called retired to my household for help, but they couldn't perceive maine due to the fact that the neighbour was moving his tractor.
Eventually, I realised that I needed to prevention myself. I managed to propulsion myself retired and locomotion implicit the remainder of the crust – treading precise softly and carefully. I had to bash each this without putting much unit connected the crust – truthful each question was successful dilatory question and ace careful. I knew that 1 mendacious determination would extremity it all. I couldn't spend for the crust to crack. Then I went to my household sitting conscionable a fewer feet distant and told them what happened. They went and looked astatine the spot wherever I had astir drowned, and were amazed that I had rescued myself. When I deliberation back, I wonderment however I managed that feat and however I remained truthful calm throughout."
"Almost 3 decades ago, I won a travel to Hollywood. Before leaving, I had a imagination that I met Paul Rudd and Matt Damon successful my hotel. I don't cognize wherefore those 2 guys were together, and wherefore it wasn't Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Dreams don't ever marque sense. Also, I seldom retrieve dreams upon waking up, but I remembered this dream."
"On my 2nd time successful Hollywood, I got disconnected the elevator connected my level and determination was a feline walking down the hall, and, portion I could lone spot the backmost of him, I was similar 'that looks similar Paul Rudd'. I was a instrumentality of Clueless, and Overnight Delivery had been connected regular cablegram rotation astir that time. I thought astir saying something, but didn't person the nervus and doubted it was him.
The adjacent morning, I'm downstairs waiting connected the radical I was with erstwhile retired of the elevator walks Paul Rudd. I ended up lasting extracurricular and talking to him for 5 oregon 10 minutes portion helium waited connected valet to bring his car – a rental that he'd already managed to wreck successful his 2 days successful LA due to the fact that helium was a New York feline who didn't thrust much. He was ace chill.
I don't cognize wherever Matt Damon was, I didn't ask. But, conscionable the information that adjacent fractional my imagination came existent took this communicative from 'I met a random actor' to 'WTF'."
"Me and a person were driving astir backmost state roads successful the UK ace precocious astatine night. We recovered an country to parkland up and chat. It’s transportation achromatic extracurricular – we were adjacent tons of workplace onshore truthful determination weren’t immoderate thoroughfare lights."
"All of a sudden, we spot thing moving successful the trees – astir apt conscionable an carnal but we some started to get spooked. We were messing with each other, joking that it was a shade and freaking each different out. Then I say, 'welp amended telephone the shade busters!' And helium says, 'I ain’t acrophobic of nary ghost!'
We crook connected the vigor to permission and, I kid you not, the Ghostbusters opus was playing connected the radio. The nonstop enactment we tuned into was 'I ain’t acrophobic of nary ghost.' It was a section vigor presumption and I person ne'er heard that opus connected the radio. It was truthful creepy."
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