BoGoWo wrote:
mind you, how many stories of how you were out hiking, and found something that was not odd, and did not belong to someone you know, or there was not some other coincidental connection, do you remember, let alone repeat?
What? Why would you want to hear those?
You want to hear the boring stories? .... let's see. once I was up on the backside of Mt. Rainier, just outside the Wm.O Douglas western border and I noticed that the little pond there... the first one you come to, not the one that's up and over on the south side of the pass... was a little low. There was some hunter's trash in the water and I wondered what jerk would come up to a pristine spot and leave their garbage. Did I pick it up or was it too muddy to walk out there?
Then... lessseee... I was hiking north of there, on the other side of the highway having crossed the little keyhole pass from Sheep's Lake & headed into Three Crow Basin when I realized there was another party of four who were coming up the hill. I left my sweaty handkerchief to dry on a branch. The wind came up and a dark cloud began to spill into the basin. So we packed up, but I left that handkerchief behind. Did they pick it up?
I went to a famous Catholic shrine south of Tuscon to pay my respects and on impulse left something of myself. I returned more than a year later and everything had been cleaned up, of course, but somehow someone has missed my gift. Do I take it ... or not? Has it been sufficiently aged in that desert air and those thousand prayers?
I have loads of those kinds of stories if you'd like to hear them, but... I think the other ones are more interesting.
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If you look at all the dull boring finds, and compare them numerically against the 'bizzaarros', statistically they probably make sense over a lifetime.
[chance is the norm, why the surprise?]
Bizzaarroos? What is that? To me... just about every story has a bizarre point, just most people don't see it.
"Statistically they
probably make sense?" Sense about what? Is there a statistical average of co-inka-dinkies that I haven't heard of, 'cause I'd LOVE to see those reports.
I think one could say that operatively, one will pick up "x" number of objects over the course of one's lifetime and some will seem more interesting than others... Truth is stranger than fiction.
Max here and I were comparing notes on our slightly more interesting stories. Either you've lived through weird times or not. I beg your pardon for our indulging ourselves in pointing them out on a public forum, but it must be terrible to live in a world where you can't... you honest to god can't, enjoy the coincidences that you are lucky enough to have happened to you.
Do you have any interesting stories to tell? They have to be real.
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On another note .... at a visit to a clinic this morning one of the technicians told me that her intuitive decision to cancel a procedure saved her and her unborn daughter a lot of grief. She'll never forget how ultimately lucky she was to choose her intution over everyday rationality. I think people would do well if they did THAT more often.
