Those "WTF?" moments in life

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GNTLGNT said:
...once stayed in a motel that had instructions on the shower door as to how to TAKE a shower...again, WTF?????

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We also have instructions on shampoo bottles- 'Lather, Rinse, Repeat'- I wonder if there's an idiot somewhere that has been stuck in the shower because of non-stop washing of their hair. I can hear them now saying 'The instructions didn't say when to stop!'
 
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The local artsy cinema was showing the original "Muppet Movie" as a cheap matinee for the younger set. I dropped some of the grandkids off to see it. After picking them up, I asked how they liked it.

14-yo girl said she liked it. 11-yo boy said, "It was okay, but the graphics just weren't as good back then. I was kinda distracted."

I was amused. "Ummm... they didn't use graphics at all. Those are all puppets. Live action. No graphics."

He shrugged. "It just didn't seem as real without good graphics."

It's a brave new world, I guess.
 
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Grandpa said:
Replacing a starter on an old Oldsmobile wagon, crawling under the beast to do so. The starter couldn't be extracted without removing some kind of bracing bar that was perfectly positioned to keep the starter from getting out. In order to take out the bracing bar, you had to remove one bolt that rotated freely with the nut on the other side, that was nearly impossible to anchor, and the space to turn the bolt head itself wasn't exactly generous. You either needed a 14-elbow socket or painfully loosen it a 16th of an inch rotation at a time. WTF were they thinking?

Newer car, Saturn Outlook. Went to replace a headlight. Spent 45 minutes of my life that I'll never get back trying to figure it out. Finally called the shop, and they said, "Oh, yeah, that's a tough one. You pretty much have to remove the fender." WTF?

Construction practices in Mexico, at least one place that I saw. You put up the buiding, frame it, drywall it. Then rip that out so you can put in the wiring. Button it up. Then rip it out so you can put in the plumbing. Build a stairway outside, anchor it in concrete. But you know it needs a handrail. So you jackhammer up the concrete to put in posts for the handrail, instead of leaving holes or, better yet, building the handrail at the same time. WTF?
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Do you think it could be the easy access to marijuana that is causing this? :disgust: :smile2: :)
 
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I grew up with a kid, Curt. Our houses were close together, and we played at each other's places a lot. The stories I could tell, and just might someday.

He died when he was 16. I dreamed about him several times after that, and in the dreams, he would tell me he was okay, that things were pretty good where he was. I didn't assume that he was visiting me from the Beyond, although it would be nice to think so. I figured that my grief and unhappiness was translating into this type of dream imagery.

Life moved on. Curt's dad died, and his mom and sister left their house for another place. Meanwhile, I left home, went to college, got a job, left the state, and would sometimes visit back home. It was on one of those visits when my parents hold me that Curt's ghost had been in the house. I was dubious, although my parents aren't really "that" type. My mom was a practical (more or less) Catholic, and my dad was agnostic, leaning toward the atheist side of it.

They said they would be upstairs, and would hear someone moving around downstairs, go to check it out, and nothing. Same thing, where they'd be downstairs and hear people noises upstairs. Now and then, they'd think they'd see a kid out of the corner of their eye, but when they turned to see, there was nothing.

That all would've been written off as just something curious, until they had a plumber come in to do some work. After the plumber had wrenched and fitted, he'd come to where they were sitting, waiting for him to get done.

"Who's the little blonde boy?" he asked them. They were suprised. No, there's no little blonde boy in the house, or not really in the neighborhood. "Sure, there is. Some little blonde boy ran through the room. I figured he was part of the house."

They didn't know what to make of this. Sometime later, they had Eleanor, Curt's mom, over for a visit. They were in the downstairs living room, talking about old days, and then they all heard what sounded like someone upstairs. They told Eleanor about their unexplained experience.

Eleanor lifted her head and called out, "Curt, you stop that right now!"

The noise stopped. They never heard it again, from then to the time that they moved out of the old house.

Now, none of this is my own personal experience. It's hearsay from my parents, who are long dead now, having sacrificed their lives in order to help keep the tobacco industry going, not that I'm resentful, but that's another story. And they didn't believe in psychics, they didn't subscribe to paranormal stuff, but they also couldn't explain what happened to them personally here except to say, "Curt's ghost."

Curt's sister was taken in by the story. To her, it was clear that Curt's spirit was looking for his family, but they'd moved away, so he went to the next closest place.

Me, I just accept the story at face value; something weird, something that's not explained well except by stretching rationality, and something that just might indicate there's more than what we know, or can know, about this world.





Whoops. I meant to put this in the "Unexplainable" thread. I guess it's fine here, but if a moderator chose to transfer it, I wouldn't object.
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Thank you - good story and I got a chuckle out of the part I highlighted by putting it in bold and italics - great comment!
 
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Neesy said:
Do you think it could be the easy access to marijuana that is causing this? :disgust: :smile2: :)
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More like not enough years spent in an engineering school. Sometimes I really wonder how some of these supposed engineers graduated from college with degrees! My car is the same way- if I want to replace the headlight housing (not the bulb but the entire plastic housing that holds the bulbs) I have to first remove the plastic splash guards from around the front wheels, then take off the entire bumper! Crazy! I know someone who has to take off the passanger side wheel just to change their oil.
 
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kingricefan said:
More like not enough years spent in an engineering school. Sometimes I really wonder how some of these supposed engineers graduated from college with degrees! My car is the same way- if I want to replace the headlight housing (not the bulb but the entire plastic housing that holds the bulbs) I have to first remove the plastic splash guards from around the front wheels, then take off the entire bumper! Crazy! I know someone who has to take off the passanger side wheel just to change their oil.
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Riot87 said:
I just had wtf moment lol. Went into the room to check on my scorpions and found that one of the females ate her friend lol so i'm thinking she is pregnant. still though cannibalism sucks!:flustered: they have no self control lmao.
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Oh wow - do you keep them in a fish tank with a lid? I mean an aquarium without water of course!
 
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fushingfeef said:
Today I'm in a bank lobby using their ATM and a woman comes up to me and says "Can I have some money?" and I said "No." After I was done I went to the security guard and said "Do you know that woman is asking people for money?" and he said "What woman?" and I turned around and she was gone.

WTF?
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I have to say I like this direct and honest approach. I usually have to listen to the story of how someone ran out of gas in the parking lot and needs a few bucks to put gas in their car. I think I would have said ,"thank you for not wasting my time with a long winded story about gasoline. Here's a 10." ;-D
 
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