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Thursday 23 April 2020
A STREET DIVIDED...
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Happy St George's Day, Kid (I'll pause while the monsoon of rotten tomatoes and worse fly at me from Jockland :-))!
ReplyDeleteSince I recently reconnected with someone I first met as a 4 year old, I've been hearing all sorts of things about my old neighbourhood, minutia that no one else would find remotely interesting, but which I absolutely lap up - so I totally get why your recent bit of news is so important to you...when I hear of someone from childhood who's died, it's so odd (as you mentioned in a recent post) that you can mourn or cheer someone's passing years after the fact, because it's new news to you...you've naturally just assumed they've carried on living alongside you, but separately...
What I'd like to ask the Criv community is this: I've noticed loads of weird coincidences recently, like texts received at the exact minute I've sent to that person, or finding out someone has thought something at exactly the same time I have? It's only very mundane stuff, but happening all the time - has anyone else noticed anything odd along these lines during lockdown?
No rotten tomatoes from me, 'cos I'm not anti-English, HS. Can't say I've noticed anything like what you describe myself (not recently anyway), or if I have, I've already forgotten. What I do find interesting is when I'm reading (or writing) something and someone on the radio says the exact word I'm reading or writing at the time. That always makes me sit up and take notice. After all, what are the chances?
ReplyDeleteYes, you're looking at the exact same word when someone on telly says it...and it's not like it's 'the' or 'and'...it's very specific words and most odd. I often have these synchronicities with my Ma, but I've noticed them happening with other people over the last couple of weeks, and it's not imagination...the best recent one was about a bag of chips so not exactly Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, but far more than mere chance. I wondered if it's anything to do with this enforced isolation?
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that comes close was last night, when I ran into a bloke I knew in childhood after mentioning his brother to someone a few hours before. We were both in our old neighbourhood and neither of us even lives there anymore and haven't done for decades. (It was his mother who moved from one house to the other one next door, as I mentioned in the post.)
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