What's That I Hear?

Tonight I left work late… it was dark out.  I put my bag in the back seat and I thought that I heard someone say my name and it sounded like they were REALLY close! It gave me chills.  I turned around slowly and no one was there and there wasn’t anyone in the parking lot either.  I was dumbfounded.  I could have sworn that someone said my name!  I stood there for a minute and then realized that I had one of those darn Staples Easy buttons in my bag.  When I set my bag down it pushed the button and it said “That was easy.”  Evidently, the end of the word “easy” sounds to me like my name!  I got in my car and laughed at myself!

Then there was the time that I was working late in the office on a proposal.  It was winter and it was dark out.  I was running back and forth between the printer up front and the conference room in the back picking up items that I needed to bind.  There was a large window up front by the printer.  On one of my trips up to the printer, I noticed my oldest sister outside the window looking in at me.  (This was during the time that we were taking care of my mother.)  I figured that she had just run downtown to pick something up for supper.  I waved at her and she waved at me at the same time.  And then I thought to myself, “Why doesn’t she have a coat on?  It’s freezing out!”  Right after that was about the time that I realized that I had waved at my own reflection.  I died laughing!  There was a bar directly across the street with windows that faced our office.  I wonder if anyone saw me and wondered what the heck I was doing!

I thought it was hilarious that I thought that my own reflection was my oldest sister.  (I guess we do look alike!)  So, I told my family about my stupidity!  It’s really funny how things work out.  My sister called her husband and was going to tell him about my idiocy.  She called him.  She “says” he answered the phone.  Then she started telling him the story and then I was on the phone mimicking her.  She figured that she must have called my cell phone by mistake.  I mimicked her a couple of times, until she figured out that she hadn’t called me but was getting feedback of herself through her phone!  (We sound alike too!)  Either that was a really strange coincidence, or “someone” was playing a trick on us... Dad?!  ;0)