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22nd April 2018, 07:25 AM | #1 |
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Here is another one of my "Jodie Stories" for your review:
This past Friday I went to a local Italian place for lunch with five other coworkers. Our waitress was a pleasant young lady who had a Daith piercing for migraines. One of my coworkers that suffers from migraines asked the waitress how well the piercing worked since she suffers from migraines. The waitress said that she had constant migraines prior to getting her Daith piercing and that the piercing helped reduce those migraines to 2-3 per week ( I can't imagine how awful that must be since I have a couple of migraine headaches per year). Anyway, the waitress left and we were discussing where to go to get a Daith piercing, then the conversation drifted off to other topics. We were there for a couple of hours, the lunch crowd had dwindled down, and we had the room to ourselves. As we were talking and gossiping we heard something fall, hit the tile floor behind Becky, who was sitting directly across from me. We looked to see if something fell out of her purse but didn't find anything. Ten minutes later, a cheap earring falls onto Becky's arm. We looked up at the ceiling, it was smooth, there was no where it could have dropped from, there was no one else in the banquet room with us. Annie Ruth decides to look on the floor again to see if she can locate what fell on the floor 10 minutes earlier and she finds another ear ring, not matching. We left them on the table and paid our bills, and left with the mystery unsolved. Where do you think the earrings came from? Any logical explanations for this odd occurrence? |
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22nd April 2018, 07:46 AM | #2 |
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They were being tossed at you by the staff as a reminder to leave.
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22nd April 2018, 08:12 AM | #3 |
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They were caught on the chair or tablecloth fabric and dropped with coincidental timing?
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22nd April 2018, 08:14 AM | #4 |
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Becky was too embarrassed to admit she hadn't washed her hair where she stores her cheap earrings?
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22nd April 2018, 08:24 AM | #5 |
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Darth Piercing was the secondary villain in the first draft of the second prequel movie. Would have been better if they'd kept her.
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22nd April 2018, 08:24 AM | #6 |
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With Jodie Stories one of the options always is: It didn't happen.
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22nd April 2018, 08:37 AM | #7 |
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I'd just like to point out that "logical explanation" is not necessarily the same thing as "an explanation you will accept"; and, maybe more to the point, vice versa- that one you would accept is not the same as an actually logical explanation. IOW, you're playing the woo game of demanding a metric for explanations you'd rather not hear that you'll then discard when you need to apply it to the one you'd prefer. My opinion is that Thermal's first explanation seems likely; but even if that's not acceptable- so what? It's such a painfully trivial event that you have to wonder why it's even a question that needs more of an answer than "it's a big world, and **** happens."
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22nd April 2018, 08:52 AM | #8 |
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I'm sitting in a restaurant, I've had to listen to two women I find annoying go on about migraine earrings for quite some time. Now I'm not a psycho but I do feel the need to do something annoying. I borrow a cheap earing and toss it at you when not looking and again as I know you are the type to be spooked out by it. For a small price I know I've amped you up.
Now to be clear, you have every right to talk about anything you want. And further no one should have **** thrown at them in a restaurant. If I saw this guy I'd call him out, and id never do this. That being said I can say probably 6 out of ten of my friends would. |
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I'd bet most restaurants have a drawer full of lost earrings. They chucked a couple at you so you'd leave.
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22nd April 2018, 09:32 AM | #10 |
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Well, since there has never been any evidence for the supernatural, ever, I'm guessing this isn't suddenly the event that proves it exists.
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22nd April 2018, 09:39 AM | #11 |
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One of the mulitiple billions of things that could've happened, happened.
Or. Bigfoot tossed it. |
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were they golden earrings?
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"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. " Pink Floyd |
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"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. " Pink Floyd |
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If you're black, racist staff members were chucking objects at you to get you to leave. Otherwise, ghosts.
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22nd April 2018, 11:03 AM | #26 |
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Becky and/or Annie Ruth know that they can get a rise out of their credulous co-worker and feel a couple of old orphaned ear rings are a price worth paying for the yuks.
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22nd April 2018, 11:06 AM | #28 |
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Well, if you were a group of five for lunch, say you each ate and drank $40 a head, that's a $200 tab. Even 20% is a $40 tip, split between servers, bus, and kitchen staff (assuming they are cool and split up the kitty). If you were disrupting dinner preparations and it seemed like you were not leaving, that split $40 is less influential than it might seem
Eta: forgot, staff needs time between lunch and dinner to put fresh tablecloths down and vacuum. Odds are really good they wanted you out in a big way |
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Throwing earrings to get customers to leave would be very odd, especially if nobody had first tried asking them to leave soon so they could setup dinner. It's possible though, but it depends on how far away the table was from the staff at the time. If it seemed to drop vertically then it was not the staff (or it didn't drop vertically).
Simple explanation: I'd say it was someone else in the group playing around. Look, the group is discussing earrings and woo and earrings appear. Coincidence? Probably not. The fact that anyone would believe in any way that earrings can help migraines is a sign of woo, and someone at the table probably knows it. Therefore, someone(s) in the group gathered a few cheap earrings from purses and threw one and it hit the floor. Bad shot. Maybe it was even tossed to the person not as a joke but some other reason. Maybe it took 10 minutes to find because it slid far from the table due to it being thrown laterally rather than falling vertically. Perhaps it rolled. So the first earring misses and a second is tossed, this time maybe (maybe not) tossed up toward the ceiling. It's a group of five people so one could pull this off unnoticed. The earring(s) could have been flipped like a coin which would require no arm movement and send them straight up. The earring lands, mystery is afoot, then after ten minutes of looking, the other earring is found, possibly by the person who threw it. The earrings don't match, and since ghosts don't wear mismatched earrings, it would lead me to believe that two women were involved, though possibly only one. |
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You didn't see where the ring came from. Your first perception of it was during its fall - you have no idea where it was or what it was doing before you saw it. It might have come from the ceiling, it might have come from much lower - you don't know. It might have been travelling in a parabolic trajectory before you spotted it, and you saw it only at the end of its trajectory when it was going more or less vertically. If it had been going in an arc towards you, you would not have seen any angle in its flight - from your perspective it would have looked like it was moving vertically.
I could go on with all the things you don't know about this event which could hide an explanation, but I have to go to work. |
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The ceiling was smooth plaster, there would be nothing to hold it in place. I didn't see the first earring fall, it was behind Becky. I simply heard something hit the tile. The second earring fell straight down onto her left sleeve right where the arm bends, she had them crossed and resting on the table. At first I thought it was a bug. |
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Aren't you trained in biology or anthropology or something? I hope you didn't think this was weird in that kinda way
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A 17th-dimensional person left them, clearly.
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This story sounds suspiciously similar to the Good-n-Plenty campfire tale.
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So, you don't know that the first thing you heard fall behind Becky was an earring.
You found nothing on the floor when you first looked, despite thinking it might have been something from Becky's purse, which should have resulted in a good search. In your story, you just assume the noise was from the earring you later found on the floor. So, you really only have one "mystery", and that is the earring you saw fall on Becky's arm. For all we know, it fell out of Becky's ear. You have no idea how long the earring on the floor had been there, and you have no idea what made the first noise you heard. |
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