Posted: 10/24/2006 6:54:12 PM EDT
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The thread about strange things found in the woods and a previous thread about "spooky" things people have seen got me thinking about strange things in general. So... what is the strangest/most unusual thing (non-supernatural) thing that you have ever seen or has happened to you? Mine: I had a cheap little Timex Iron Man Triathalon watch that had a broken band. I was swimming in Lake Michigan when the band gave out and my watch was lost to the depths. Well, about two days later I went swimming again at a beach around two miles away and I stepped on something. I reached down and retrieved it from the chest high water and TA-DA!!!! My watch!!!!! I would like to know what the statistical odds of THAT was!!!!!! So... Watchoo got? |
My freshman year in college I went white water rafting in W VA with some friends. One of the people who went was girl I was totally infatuated/in love with. We had two rafts. It worked out so that I was in one and she was in the other. My raft went through one pretty sever rapid and made it though ok. We waited in the pool below the rapid for the other rapid. As the second raft approached, it did a nose dive into a rock dumping everyone into the cold rushing water. Everyone was ok, but the LOML (love of my life) came to the surface, opened her eyes and said she had lost a contact. As I went to pull her into my boat, I looked on the floor of my raft and floating there was her contact. Had it not been a colored contact, I would have never seen it.  No, I never got a date with her. I was freshly out of the Army and she wasn't much into .mil types. 
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Probably not very interesting, but here it is anyway... Was a foreman on a construction site, and me and the crew were standing around a large room shooting the shit and laughing. I said, "Screw it, let's go home!" and took off my hard hat. I held it like a punter would a football, and then I punted it. It went straight up in the air, about 25 feet, and lodged in a truss! I was like, well shit, what are the odds? The crew was laughing, and one asked me what I was going to do now. "No problem," says I, and took my tape measure off my hip and threw it at my hard hat. It landed PERFECTLY in the webbing and got caught there, so now I have a hard hat AND a tape measure 25 feet off the ground wedged inbetween trusses. The crew starts to laugh again, and all of a sudden I see the hat move. I took two steps forward, the hard hat fell, and landed in my hands top facing down in a perfect catch. Reached in, grabbed my tape measure and put it back on my belt, then put my hard hat back on just like it was planned. Everyone just stood there, mouths agape. I said, "See? Told you I'd get it down. Now let's go get a beer." Just one of those one-in-a-million things that could never possibly happen again. Looked like it was planned and staged the way it got stuck, then the tape measure stuck in the webbing, and then fell right into my waiting hands. |
I'm telling you, bro, we laughed about that for months straight! No one else assigned to the other sub crews ever believed it happened. Even with 27 witnessess (28 including me). Freakiest thing EVER. Hell, I wouldn't have believed it either. God certainly has a sense of humor! That must have been a day He was bored and said, "Hmmmm, hey all you angels! Hold my beer and watch this! This'll be some funky shit right here!" |
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This is to inform you of alleged copywright thread infringment (CTI) issues invoked by your clear appropriation of likeness of the thread of FordGuy and at least one other respected AR15.com poster. You are to immediately cease and disist from perpetuation of this infringment activity. kidding... the the spookiest thing that happened to me is too spooky to sayonline...OOOHHH spooooky... (seriously, I'll never tell a soul...) ...and Richard, I believe it! we all should have moments like that... |