Could I be like Carrie?

[nuxvomica]

Last week I was walking down a supermarket aisle when just across from me a stack of styrofoam plates fell for no apparent reason. I look around startled and a woman behind me joked "What did you do? Look at it funny?" I smiled. I actually had just been quietly annoyed at the fact they only had the milk chocolate flavor of Carnation Instant Breakfast and I wanted the chocolate malted.

Today, I was standing at the checkout at a drug store when a display of nail clippers next to me suddenly crashed to the floor. I said to the cashier "Did I do this?", thinking I may have inadvertantly brushed against it. "No" she said, "I was watching and you never touched it." As a picked up the scattered nail clippers she insisted I shouldn't do that because it wasn't my fault. I had actually been a little annoyed because the purchase came to $11.19, I gave her a $20 and she did that waiting thing like I was supposed to dig for the 19 cents.

Please note that I'm a guy and I went through puberty about 35 years ago. These were minor annoyances so what might happen if I were to take a White House tour?

edit: typo

[Bunny]

1. I recommend that you sign up for a tour asap!

Maybe a Christmas tour? :)

[nuxvomica]

3. I probably can't swing the trip

Unless I have another incident and I'm pretty sure I got the power.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I was thinking the exact same thing

Just make sure that the squatter-in-chief is in residence when you visit and not off galavanting somewhere, with his enormous entorage, pissing off more world leaders.:grr:

[Nay]

13. Yeah! Good idea! And plan to be really pissed off about something

while you are there!

[nuxvomica]

14. All I gotta do is see a smirk

and there go all the Christmas trees. :evilgrin:

[Booberdawg]

2. I don't know, but if you are, promise to use your powers only for good

and for liberal and Democratic purposes. :D

[nuxvomica]

5. I promise

But you could've stopped at "good". The rest was redundant. ;-)

[Booberdawg]

7. Well, I was trying to phrase it in such a way ...

that if ... well.. if you had to get a bit .. you know... ornery ... if it were for a liberal or a Democratic purpose, it would be okay if it were not exactly --- "good". Know what I mean? :evilgrin:

[MissMarple]

4. Honey, I am so NOT going to your prom!

On the other hand, perhaps you just randomly tapped into the cosmic consiousness. If you start finding parking spots just when and where you need them, it could be a good thing.

:bounce:

[nuxvomica]

9. If I thought I could do that, I'd move to Boston

I would be king of that city, I tell you, king! :-)

[dolo amber]

6. Hmmm....

Be on the lookout for another occurance...in my experience it came in 3s...

I've thought about posting something similar to this on occasion but just haven't gotten around to it yet. Funny you should actually mention "Carrie", as that became my nickname after the little spell I had a few years back.

First thing: I worked for a small company, and the boss' daughter was the receptionist. She and I didn't so much get along, to the point it was becoming obvious to the boss. So I decide in the interest of self preservation to *kill her with kindness*, since I knew me being nice to her would get to her worse than anything. I said to a co-worker "I'm gonna be so nice to her that her head explodes." This was on a Friday. Monday morning, no boss' daughter. She'd had an aneurysm rupture in her brain on Saturday. NO SHIT. She lived, however...(and actually became a much nicer person!)

Second thing: The above company was a music distributor, and I was a buyer, which meant interacting with cheesy record label types on a regular basis. One such person used to JUST annoy the arse right off me. Arrogant cocky prick. We'd be out at a show, he'd saunter up to the bar, SNAP HIS FINGERS (:grr:) at the poor stressed out college kids behind the bar, then virtually throw his *comp* drink tickets in the kids' face when he was served. Made me ill. Anyway, again, I open my mouth one day after spending the evening in his presence, and say "I hate that SOB, I wish he'd just drop dead and rot!" BOOM. A week or so later, dead of a cocaine induced heart attack. He was like 37, 38...

Last thing: (Bear in mind all these things happened within like, a month and a half of each other. And no one is harmed in this episode, it's just odd. ;)) The apt. building I lived in at the time was a converted hotel from the 20s. Really cute, lots of personality, but kinda rickety. Not in the greatest part of town. There were iron bars on the windows, and my doorknob had been progressively getting looser and looser to the point I had to spin in around like 20 times to get it to catch to open the door. I said to my sister (who also lived there) "Jeeesus, if this place ever catches on fire, I'm right fucked for trying to get out of here!"...I'll let you guess what happened a few days later...:eyes:

This was (thankfully) the only time(s) anything like this has ever happened to me, and I don't for a minute believe any of those things occured because of anything I said, but MAN! Too. Weird.

If you decide to take that tour, lemme know. :evilgrin:


edit for usual rubbish spelling

[nuxvomica]

8. Wow! Thank God my experiences have only harmed retail displays

I like the way you think, though, about dealing with difficult co-workers. I always try to be especially nice to them. I think that's from "The Art of War." Another thing about both incidents: they occurred after I had a massage wherein the massage therapist was working on an unusually nasty knot in my neck. My next appointment is 12/6. *cue Twilight Zone theme*

[dolo amber]

10. On the 6th, eh?

Shall we ask for a full report from you or just watch the news? :D

[nuxvomica]

11. Now that I might have a clue, I'm gonna focus

So the answer is: watch the news. And despite the rancor sometimes evidenced around here, none of the Dem candidates are in danger regardless of how much any particular one may annoy me. (I promised Booberdawg, see?) I will focus my powers on genuine evil. :evilgrin: