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06/05/2022 9:42 pm
I'm beginning this Coffee Talk in the way that Rod Serling would deliver it...
"Telephone lines are highways that come out of a seemingly nowhere in the realm of reality. Using the phone you're on a mysterious route to the land of different, the bizarre, the unexpected, and a shadowy unknown road. It's limits are only in the mind itself. Fellow Lounge friends, along with me you've entered the weird dimension of imagination. Next stop...THE TWILIGHT ZONE".
Tonight while out on my walk, I received a voice message from my friend Dave in Chicago who will be coming to St. Paul in June for the annual "Back to the 50's" Old Car Show weekend. He wanted to book his flight and was wondering if I'm okay to pick him up from the airport. Now here is where things start to get weird.
Seeing his voice mail, I then saw that I missed a call from our mutual friend Denny from Stillwater, who always joins us that weekend. So before returning Dave's voice message call, I decided to touch base with Denny to see if he's still on board. I called his number on my phone, got an answer, but it wasn't Denny...it was Dave. Obviously confused, I thought I'd just dialed his number by mistake. So Dave and I made the plans for him to come in and I told him I'd contact Denny and bring him up to speed.
When I got off the phone with Dave, I went back to Denny's number on the phone...but it was Dave's number. Too spooky! Checking my phone contacts, I don't even have Dave in my phone. Hello? When I tried to add Dave to my contacts by typing in his number, Denny's name immediately popped up again. Now I'm totally confused and thinking that I've not had anything to drink, so maybe I'm in the beginning stages of losing my mind.
I decide to delete Denny completely...but when I do, it delete's his name...and Dave's name shows up. Now I'm almost actually hearing Rod Serling telling me, "I've just entered The Twilight Zone". Feeling I've nothing else to lose, I delete Dave's number and contact info too, thinking I'll just put them back in separately. Guess again!!!
Typing their names they still pop up with their numbers together. My final bright idea and hope for sanity, I put Dave in my phone with only his first initial and last name, and then I do the same for Denny. Success! I survived this usually one-way trip to where ever The Twilight Zone is. I'm exhausted.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
Topic starter
07/05/2022 6:49 am
The other weird thing about the unknown phone scenario I shared above is that, I called and talked to Dave on his birthday last month and his name and number were in my contacts on my phone. But last night both were gone and his number was intertwined with Denny's. There is just no logical explanation for this that I can think of. I feel it really was a super-natural encounter.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota