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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 15:34:52
Something that I found very strange happened this weekend.
Help gauge it for me, will ya.
Me and the gals did our annual Victoria day long weekend to Kelowna, BC this weekend.
We hit a few bars there and after one night of real excess the weirdest thing happened.
We stayed with one of my friend’s sister and she came out with us on that night.
Now she doesn’t get the opportunity to whoop it up very often so she was quite inebriated, she tends to get quite chatty in that state.
She asked me to accompany her to the bathroom, which I did.
As we’re waiting in the lineup she strikes up a conversation with a total stranger who just happens to be as chatty as she is, and I’m thinking OMG I’m never going to get out of this bathroom now (This scenario has occurred before). They’re doing the oh so typical ‘guess how old I am’ game with the oh so typical ‘oooo you look soooo good’ type of responses as I sat banging my head against the wall. After awhile this lady switches into ‘poor me’ mode and begins talking about how she’s not happy with her appearance and how she has such crappy boyfriends who walk all over her and so on and so forth. By this time I have already used the facilities, washed my hands and finished my beer (which was full) and my friend’s sister lost her spot in line due to the gab. So I tell her to hurry up and these two continue the conversation through the stall door. She comes out washes her hands, smokes a cigarette (yes yes breakin the law breakin the law) and still continues chatting. Now I’m thinking jesus woman the bars close at 1:00 here, I didn’t drive 10 hours to hang out in the bathroom. So I took over and decided to tell it like it is. I looked at this girl and said something like ‘Why the hell are you telling all of your woes to a perfect stranger in the bathroom? And the reason you have shitty boyfriends is because you pick them, you obviously have low self esteem (and so on and so forth) so are you going to continue in this victim cycle or do you want to do something about this?’ And then she looks at me and starts to cry and I’m thinking bloody hell I really am never getting out of here. I mean she’s really crying now so I thought I might’ve been a little harsh. So I looked her in the eyes and said ‘Look I hope I’m not overstepping my boundaries here, you look native and I think a great thing you could do for yourself is to go to a healing circle. Its something that is very positive and its readily available to you’. Then I took my friend by the hand and said Let’s go. So this girl is still standing there bawling with her jaw on the ground (completely stunned like I must’ve nailed it or something) and my friend says OK, gives this girl a hug and says ‘by the way what is your name?’ (hehehe) and of course she says Carolyn. And I say trippy that’s my name and she says no it must be Caroline (she’s very emotional by this point) and I say no no its Carolyn – L_Y_N and then she snapped. She started to shake and kind of rock back and forth and was saying stuff like ‘no no no, it can’t be’ and something about her grandmother and spirit guides until I start to realize that she thinks and totally believes that I am some sort of spirit guide or omen or something. Do you know how strange it feels when someone thinks that you are some sort of supernatural being? Its completely weird and I was thinking well what should I do with this, should I just leave, because she’s really a mess now. After a minute she touched my face and says something in some sort of native language, turns completely pale, her knees buckle and she completely faints right there (I was a bit high myself so I found this whole scenario completely surreal). People start to help her up and out of the bathroom but she wouldn’t take her eyes off of me as they’re helping her out and at the last minute I decided What the hell, and I told her to remember what I said (I was so tempted to yell out Boo!) and then she just kept saying I won’t forget over and over til she was gone. Keep in mind that from beginning to end this whole thing took about an hour. I don’t know how trippy it really is, like I said it just felt really odd.
Some other really very strange things also happened so I decided right then and there that I needed to go to the casino. And guess what, I rawked the blackjack table!
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 15:32:56
well stop eating that asparagus then will ya ;) |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 15:22:20
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
You're obviously very hairy!!!
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!!
Yeah, but I'm told by those willing to get close enough, that the smell doesn't help much either.
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Confucious say - The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
He also say my lucky numbers are: 16 27 36 23 11
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 15:13:48
You're obviously very hairy!!!
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 15:05:25
Carolyn, That story kicked ass!! I wish I was there. Ilove that shit
oh yeah...
"Do you know how strange it feels when someone thinks that you are some sort of supernatural being?"
Yes I do. In fact I can no longer go within one hundred yards of any wooded area with out someone reporting a Sasquatch sighting.
I'm not sure what to make of that really.
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Confucious say - The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
He also say my lucky numbers are: 16 27 36 23 11
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 14:48:05
Yeah I did wonder too Shakey!!!
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 14:47:52
nevermind I think I got it,
a gender bender right?
Speaking of which I have some stats to go post. |
| ShakeyShake |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 14:41:48
Just had to check this to see which type of bender,you'll get it if you're from the UK
"I joined the Cult of this guy / 'cause they took my other picture away |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 13:41:07
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Originally posted by broken part
That's rubbish Spud. Everyone knows God communicates with you when you sleep.
Heh, I hope not. I have some supplementary flight training I'm doing after work today and I had a dream last night about being in a passenger airline (as a passenger) that was taking off and did so at a very sharp angle so I was alarmed already that we might stall. Then the plane rolled upside down and we weren't more than a couple thousand feet off the ground. And I thought, "That's it. We're going to die. What are the odds?", and the pilot managed to right the plane before it stalled and we flew a circuit around the airport, and couldn't land because he came down too late (and I thought just set us on the ground, so what if we hit the approach beacons). So we had to circle again, all the time wondering if the plane was going to just roll over again the next time he tried to turn. It was really intense.
Anyway, this is completely off topic, I just wanted to tell someone so that you guys can all go, "Ooh, spooky" if Mike tells you I'm dead tomorrow. :)
I want the name on my tombstone to be either Cult of Frank or Nostradeanus.
 "When 5000 posts you reach / Look as good you will not, hmmm?" |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 13:40:29
It's good that you did on this occasion I guess. Now you have an interesting story to tell people.
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 13:27:32
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Carolynanna? What I am amazed by, is the fact that you stayed that whole time. Why do women have to go to AND return from the bathroom together??? I would have just left your friend there to chat.
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!!
good question.
I spose its because its the sister of a really good friend of mine (and she was really really very tres drunk),
we gotta take care of eachother sometimes, ya know. :) |
| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 13:16:50
great story, Carolyn! though I would see why you'd feel a little creeped out by her reaction...but that is a great tale indeed. If i was drunk and mischievous, I might have played off her reaction a little more. But then again, that would have been really mean, so it's good that you didn't...
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 12:57:56
Carolynanna? What I am amazed by, is the fact that you stayed that whole time. Why do women have to go to AND return from the bathroom together??? I would have just left your friend there to chat.
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
| broken part |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 20:09:43
That's rubbish Spud. Everyone knows God communicates with you when you sleep. Once I dreamed I was dreaming a dream but the dream in the dream turned sour and I was having a bad dream but I can't really say if the bad dream was the dream I was dreaming or the dream itself. I can't recall what the dream was about but for a while I had this recurring dream that my penis was falling off. Sometimes the head would fall off and sometimes it would all just come off from the base. But always I has able to stick it back on with a little spit. However, one time, it was just impossible and it slowly dawned on me that I lost my penis for good. I was greatly distressed and I started screaming and my own scream woke me up. And that never happend to me before. After this i never dreamed that dream again. I've been wonering what it all meant and why it worked up over a considerable period of time to such a climax and them completely stopped. Is it a personification of the male orgasm? I kinda doubt it since the dream was pretty serious and there weren't any sexual connotations to it.
So what does it all mean? Anyway, it is my lasting conviction that dreams hold the answer to the meaning of life. You just have to learn how to decipher them although it can be pretty good to just wonder about and be awed by them. As Bunuel once said, if I had only 24 hours to live I would spent them all dreaming!
And by the way, if you are wondering, my real penis is doing fine. |
| SpudBoy |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 19:14:58
Cautionary tale time: An old roommate of mine was an epileptic schizophrenic (or a schizophrenic epileptic, or was it schizoleptic epiphrenic? anyway...). So he bugged out one day, stomped on a glass ashtray barefoot, sending it flying into a million pieces, and runs out the door. Three days later, he re-emerges with leaves in his hair, breathing heavily, and looking really, really edgy. Apparently about a week prior, a bum told him to stop taking his medicine because god told him it would be ok. So, sensing this as a moment of import, he did just that. So now the issue that has haunted me ever since: in the great cosmic widget, this was indeed "meant to be" - otherwise, it would not have happened, or not. So the implications of that are basically one or more of the following:
a) God exists and communicated via a bum to my buddy the vibrating looney
b) God may or may not exist but there is definite groove through which our collective or individual slot-cars run. History is just the future that already happened (insert free will debate).
c) There is a general balance of good and evil and this somehow averted greater catastrophe
d) The world is a wicked place.
e) Wherever you go, there you are.
I think the lesson is that you have the individual power to be momentous to someone else when you, and they, least expect it. Try not to fuck up their day with that. Unless of course the answer is C, then you might just be doing them a favor.
Anyway - awesome story Carolynanna.
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:58:44
Actually I made the whole thing up just so
everyone would learn how to spell my name!
(Just kidding)
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:48:06
I believe it, Carolyn, and no matter whether it's real for you or not, it was for her. Her "reality tunnel" was shaken, and we find meaning in things when we have something to learn. That's an awesome encounter, and I love it when people are honest with no expectations - for lack of a better phrase, crazy magic happens then.
If the only tool you have is an elbow macaroni,
all your problems look like Schroedinger's cat. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:45:27
Yuppers it was as David Lynch-esque as it sounded,
well at least to me.
The rockets won rightI think. It is the rockets isn't it?
You know it was also surreal to see the devastation from last year's forest fires. I hope they get more rain this year. |
| floop |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 17:00:47
that's crazy Carolin. i can't believe you guys had the same exact spellings too..
so do you think she was just trying to scam you for money, or was it really that much of a David Lynch-esque moment as it sounded? |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 16:36:31
Kelowna on the May long week-end, eh? Must have been a wild one. They had the Memorial Cup in Flashback's I heard. One of my exes smoked pot with a well known television personality who was covering the Cup for a Canadian Sports Channel. As far as your experience,I'm a guy and I can't stand girls who get like that when they're drunk. Unless you have a family member who dies or a cat/dog you have known for 10+ years kicks the bucket, keep your tears to yourself (unless of course I can offer a sympathy lay, narf!)
I have a somewhat similar story - I was about 18 and I got in fight one Friday night, the guy was beating me up pretty good, but I wouldn't give up and I ended up breaking his leg and leaving him in the ditch (his friends took him to the hospital). About a year later I got a job at a gas station (the only gas station in town with 2 employees working the graveyard shift), my partner was the guy I had beat up. We kind of avoided the topic for a while, but inevitably it came up one night. It turned out we were both pretty drunk and he was apologetic for picking the fight(even though it was me who picked the fight, albeit with his friend I had bad blood with), he had been raised a devout Christian and was straying from God's path, He said when he was in the ditch God came to him and told him to look at himself and see the errors of his ways. I was an "Instrument of God". It was a little wierd. Don't get me wrong, I have faith, I just found it a little wierd when he was telling me I did him a favour by beating the tar out of him.
Do dyslexic-insomniac-agnostics stay up all night wondering if there really is a dog? |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 15:51:29
She said that she didn't believe it was 'lyn' because its not as common as 'line' and that her name and her grandmother's name was Carolyn and she couldn't believe that mine was 'lyn' because it was too overwhelming for her or something. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 15:48:42
FBnet's resident shaman.
Cool.
 "Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 15:47:06
Wow. That's crazy. I mean, I always suspected you were some sort of omni-present figure, but I never fainted!! Amazing. :)
Seriously, I don't know what to say, but maybe there is more to this than meets the eye? Maybe you're not supernatural, but maybe you were supposed to snap at her/set her straight? If you believe in that sort of thing. Of course, her insisting on the spelling of your name being 'ine' is odd, but...
Crazy story anyway.
"When 5000 posts you reach / Look as good you will not, hmmm?" |
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