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Curiouser and Curiouser
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
 United States
1/25/2009 8:12 PM
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Last night I stopped at a nondescript gas station to buy a diet Pepsi. The cashier was an overweight woman with a pleasant personality. We talked about lottery tickets. She confessed to a belief that buying them was a waste of money. We wished one another a nice evening and I headed for the door.
On the way out I held the door open for the guy coming into the store, a man I'd never laid eyes on before. He had a denim jacket and a grey beard, and as he passed inside he said, "Thanks Matt." That's my first name, but how did this guy know it? This is some weird Reality, and it just keeps getting weirder.
The 'rational' part of my brain keeps clamoring that I'm mistaken, that he actually said "Thanks man!" or something. But that's not what happened. This is probably what everyone does when they have such inexplicable experiences; they find a way to explain it by attributing it to some trick of the light, or an error between their brains and their ears. But I heard him very plainly use my first name and find excuses and rationalizations will not do.
What does it all mean? Who knows, but at least I no longer suffer from boredom. Who knew the Apocalypse would be so entertaining?
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 510528
 Canada
1/25/2009 8:13 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Diet Pepsi warps your brain. That is probably your problem, the aspartame is rotting your thoughts. |
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Phoenix 2012  
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User ID: 425066
United States
1/25/2009 8:14 PM
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Why didn't you ask him how he knew your name?
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 87692
United States
1/25/2009 8:14 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
why the hell would you drink diet anything? or soda anything for that matter?
frikin POISON... |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:15 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Why didn't you ask him how he knew your name? Quoting: Phoenix 2012
I guess I was too thunderstruck. I didn't say anything at all.
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 575338
United States
1/25/2009 8:18 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
I had a similar thing happen. I had just moved from one state to another. I was only a week in town and having lunch at a local restaurant. As I was leaving, a man with a WHITE BEARD (I shit you not) approached me and said "Have a lovely day. Where you from? Uh oh yeah. Ohio." And he winked at me. I had already changed my plates so there was no way of this person knowing where I had just moved from. It totally freaked me out for like a week. |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:21 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
I had a similar thing happen. I had just moved from one state to another. I was only a week in town and having lunch at a local restaurant. As I was leaving, a man with a WHITE BEARD (I shit you not) approached me and said "Have a lovely day. Where you from? Uh oh yeah. Ohio." And he winked at me. I had already changed my plates so there was no way of this person knowing where I had just moved from. It totally freaked me out for like a week. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 575338
Ah! So I am not alone. Perhaps I should cultivate a beard of my own?
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 600233
United States
1/25/2009 8:24 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
one never knows when one will encounter a peaceful warrior |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519152
United States
1/25/2009 8:25 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
OP (Matt), maybe this gentleman knew you years ago when you were a young boy and you just don't recognize him due to the fact that our features do change as we get older? Just a thought. |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:26 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
OP (Matt), maybe this gentleman knew you years ago when you were a young boy and you just don't recognize him due to the fact that our features do change as we get older? Just a thought. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 519152
If that were true wouldn't he be likely to say more than two words to someone he hasn't seen for 30-odd years?
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:27 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
one never knows when one will encounter a peaceful warrior Quoting: Anonymous Coward 600233
I wish now I'd spoken to him more. Maybe he was a peaceful warrior. Stranger things have happened.
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 589540
United States
1/25/2009 8:27 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
It is funny because someone held the door for me and I said thanks John and the guy wheeled around and said how did you know my name? I said, it is on your nametag. |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:33 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
It is funny because someone held the door for me and I said thanks John and the guy wheeled around and said how did you know my name? I said, it is on your nametag. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 589540
You see, this is the tendency I was speaking of earlier, the urge to find some explanation.
I wasn't wearing a name tag, by the way.
Fools must learn from experience. |
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TheGasMan
User ID: 410747
United States
1/25/2009 8:35 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 569622
United States
1/25/2009 8:37 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
He said "Thanks, man." |
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TheGasMan
User ID: 410747
United States
1/25/2009 8:38 PM | |
Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:43 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Was your name on your shirt or jacket? Quoting: TheGasMan
No, I don't own any clothing with my first name on it.
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Anonymous Hero
User ID: 601001
United States
1/25/2009 8:43 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Matt,
Is there any chance that you resemble another individual whose name you also share? |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:44 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
He said "Thanks, man."
Or maybe he said, "Thanks mate." Quoting: TheGasMan
Yes, I thought the same things. But I heard him say my name, I have no doubt about it at all.
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:45 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Matt,
Is there any chance that you resemble another individual whose name you also share? Quoting: Anonymous Hero 601001
Anything is possible, of course.
But I think there was a lot more to that man than met the eye. He somehow knew my name.
Fools must learn from experience. |
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S.
User ID: 572425
United States
1/25/2009 8:49 PM
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Anything is possible, of course.
But I think there was a lot more to that man than met the eye. He somehow knew my name. Quoting: Liquid Reality
It was Jesus, Mathew! He'd know you anywhere, any time!
Shhhh...don't tell the rapture people cuz it will ruin their day!
;-)
No matter how many cookies you consult, you will find that love is our greatest fortune. ~ Leigh Standley |
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Liquid Reality
User ID: 595066
United States
1/25/2009 8:51 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
It was Jesus, Mathew! He'd know you anywhere, any time!
Shhhh...don't tell the rapture people cuz it will ruin their day!
;-) Quoting: S.
If only He would have told me! I would have offered to smoke him up with some fine blueberry Buddha. :)
Fools must learn from experience. |
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Anonymous Hero
User ID: 601001
United States
1/25/2009 8:52 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
I had a similar thing happen. I had just moved from one state to another. I was only a week in town and having lunch at a local restaurant. As I was leaving, a man with a WHITE BEARD (I shit you not) approached me and said "Have a lovely day. Where you from? Uh oh yeah. Ohio." And he winked at me. I had already changed my plates so there was no way of this person knowing where I had just moved from. It totally freaked me out for like a week. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 575338
What were you wearing?
Did the bearded man hear you speak?
Apparel and accents can be dead giveaways. |
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Anonymous Hero
User ID: 601001
United States
1/25/2009 8:52 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
I had a similar thing happen. I had just moved from one state to another. I was only a week in town and having lunch at a local restaurant. As I was leaving, a man with a WHITE BEARD (I shit you not) approached me and said "Have a lovely day. Where you from? Uh oh yeah. Ohio." And he winked at me. I had already changed my plates so there was no way of this person knowing where I had just moved from. It totally freaked me out for like a week. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 575338
What were you wearing?
Did the bearded man hear you speak?
Apparel and accents can be dead giveaways. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 600536
 Australia
1/25/2009 8:55 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
I once got on a bus and said thank you to the driver, and he said "You're freaking me out, how did you know my name?" I had never said his name/any name at all. It's just one of those things. |
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S.
User ID: 572425
United States
1/25/2009 8:56 PM
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If only He would have told me! I would have offered to smoke him up with some fine blueberry Buddha. :) Quoting: Liquid Reality
If he would have told you, you wouldn't have believed him. Buddah was waiting out in the car for his bag of popcorn. Buttered, not blueberried....
Hee heeeeeee.......
S.
No matter how many cookies you consult, you will find that love is our greatest fortune. ~ Leigh Standley |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 498022
Canada
1/25/2009 8:59 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
He has you under surveilance, and he was letting you know, in a mocking manner.
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Grammar Josefiend
User ID: 493999
United States
1/25/2009 8:59 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Last night I stopped at a nondescript gas station to buy a diet Pepsi. The cashier was an overweight woman with a pleasant personality. We talked about lottery tickets. She confessed to a belief that buying them was a waste of money. We wished one another a nice evening and I headed for the door.
On the way out I held the door open for the guy coming into the store, a man I'd never laid eyes on before. He had a denim jacket and a grey beard, and as he passed inside he said, "Thanks Matt." That's my first name, but how did this guy know it? This is some weird Reality, and it just keeps getting weirder.
The 'rational' part of my brain keeps clamoring that I'm mistaken, that he actually said "Thanks man!" or something. But that's not what happened. This is probably what everyone does when they have such inexplicable experiences; they find a way to explain it by attributing it to some trick of the light, or an error between their brains and their ears. But I heard him very plainly use my first name and find excuses and rationalizations will not do.
What does it all mean? Who knows, but at least I no longer suffer from boredom. Who knew the Apocalypse would be so entertaining? Quoting: Liquid Reality
He probably said, THANKS MAN, instead of thanks , Matt...could sound similar if the speaker mumbled or wasn't a clear pronounciator |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 600860
Canada
1/25/2009 9:07 PM | | Re: Curiouser and Curiouser | Quote |
Thanks man. People say that all the time. Pull yourself together. |
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