Things that make you go hmmm

There are several "things that make you go hmmm" topics here in the Open Forum. So, that in itself makes one go 'hmmm' as to why so many of this category have been created. ;-)

Things have happened to me that have been a saving grace...

1. I had constantly been delayed in leaving to go somewhere by all sorts of stupid stuff. If it wasn't for those delays, I would have either seen it happen at the exact moments of impact of serious car accidents or been involved in those serious car accidents, including one that was fatal. This had happened to me at least once every other month for about a six or so year period.

1. I've had two different things happen that told me to duck for cover. One saved me from an injury, the other would have been a slaughter on the highway...

The first was way back in the late 90's. I was a laborer for a company that cleaned out houses of people that were evicted. The crew I worked with on this day had stacked a couch on top of the debris in the stake-body truck, earlier in the shift. The couch decided to roll off the pile of debris towards the back of the bed of the truck, while I was standing on and working at the back end of the bed. I ducked down as fast as I could and the couch literally rolled over top of me, with me fitting in the seating area perfectly as it rolled. I was not touched by the couch!

The second was back in late 2017 while driving a commercial vehicle on Interstate 95 in my area on my way back to the shop from a job site. From the factory, there was a supply cabinet that sat in brackets, that was under the front end of the flatbed, on the driver's side. I was in the right hand lane doing the speed limit (the company trucks were speed monitored by GPS) and the supply cabinet's front end drops to the ground! WTF! I emergency pulled over and found that the factory welds for bracket holding the front end of the supply cabinet had broke. I used a combination of flatbed freight holding straps to get the cabinet up in the air. While doing this on a minimal shoulder, I had to duck under the bed of the truck a few times to avoid being hit. Fine, I expected that on an interstate. I limped the truck about a mile further up the road to a wide shoulder and got the supply cabinet firmly secured. What makes me go hmmm is, why I had to again duck under the bed for safety when the shoulder was wide enough. Did cars not see me and why did they roll over the shoulder line?

So, overall, do I have a guardian angel watching over me? Hmmm...

It hasn't happened in years, since I no longer have to call people to communicate with them (and haven't had a landline in more than a decade), but I used to routinely pick up the phone to call someone and have them already on the phone.

"That seems to happen to me too after those rare occasions when I have too much to drink. Lol"

No alcohol was involved. lol

"He said that he was using a laptop on his bed and that his cat jumped up on the bed and landed on the keyboard and accidentally typed/sent that response."

Based on some of the recent messages we have received, we would welcome a "cat dancing on the keyboard" approach. lol

~Scamp

<p>Years ago I was transporting some furniture for a friend in my truck. I had it tied down and was on a rural road when I noticed that one of the straps was loose. I pulled over to the side of the road and tightened it up. The grass there was about knee high because it hadn't been mowed recently. I got to their house and realized my phone was gone. It must have fallen out when I got out of the truck. I went back to about where I thought I pulled over (the tires left ruts in the tall grass, so I knew I was close). A storm was approaching. Very dark clouds and thunder in the distance, so I was quickly walking back and forth along the road trying to find the phone in the tall grass and not having any luck. All of a sudden lightning flashed (and it looked like it was right across the sky above me) and in the same instant there was a BOOM of thunder. I instectively dove to the ground and right in front of my eyes was my phone! If the lightning hadn't of flashed in that exact moment, I wouldn't have seen it in the tall grass.</p>

Does that cat story fall in line with "Sorry, I accidentally tripped on the rug and my dick fell into your wife"?

<p>"<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">(rabbit thinks one of the cats did it. lol)"</span></p>

<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">I flagged a single male one time for rudely going off on a couple that rejected him. He said that he was using a laptop on his bed and that his cat jumped up on the bed and landed on the keyboard and accidentally typed/sent that response. </span></p>

That seems to happen to me too after those rare occasions when I have too much to drink. Lol

We use a firestick for our living room TV and if you have one, you know the remote uses two AAA batteries, both with the + end facing up in the remote.

We watched TV Monday night and the remote worked just fine. On Tuesday, rabbit turned on the TV and the remote wasn't working so she deduced the batteries were dead. She got out new batteries but when she went to install them, she noticed that the batteries in the remote were upside down, with the + on the bottom. She flipped them over and installed them correctly and the remote worked just fine.

She asked me if I was playing a prank on her (I'm not) and we are the only two people in the house. I even went to the extent of checking our motion-sensitive camera to see if she was pranking me, or if one of us was sleepwalking but nothing showed up.

Nothing earth-shattering but definitely makes us go hmmm.

(rabbit thinks one of the cats did it. lol)

~Scamp

Whether you believe in the paranormal, have a healthy dose of skepticism, or outright think everything can be explained by logic, reason, and science, we have all had things happen that make us go hmmm. We thought it might be fun to share some of those here. And don't worry, no one will mock you. Much. ;^D