Leej, it was at that age my stepson assured me he was praying for my death on a nightly basis! THERE's a bizarre encounter for ya! Priest's son, saying that! About nine feet tall, towering over me in longhaired redheaded rage, snarling that line like a demon! Well heck; it was too bizarre to stand. I cracked up, and assured him that I did not think God listens to that sort of prayer exactly as he might have been thinking God had! And nothing he ever said to try to piss me off after that quite worked!

I once had a boss come storming into the typesetting shop where I worked, and she went from employee to employee telling us each, in all sincerity, that she had decided to close up shop, we all had a week to get out, that was IT, no more incoming jobs accepted. We each had that bizarre moment with her... and each of us, it later turned out, just took a good long look at her, concluded she had lost her mind, saw right off that the reality lay in the work before us, and went right back to work as though she had never sopoken. She WAS serious-- she tried to sell out the next day. But we just knew it was not going to happen... and it did not. She never brought it up, and neither did any of us. But then it was an odd bunch. The messenger used to really enjoy telling new staff about the day his glass eye fell out into the toilet. Hmmm, maybe there IS more than one place in the planet like the Mudcat!

I am very grateful for these bizarre moments... they are very useful for waking the hell UP once in awhile.

Now some of the ones you see in threads, well, maybe it helps to let you know that some of us talk about these subjects offCat too, with each other, and there are three or four good friends of mine disucssing in this thread, and sometimes maybe I don't stop to separate what I am saying here from the intense ongoing conversations of the last whole YEAR. (I guess.... oh GOD, I'm getting to be like the ORILLIANS! They are not meant as private jokes, either-- just woven into a larger fabric I know well, than is seen here in the thread.) Or maybe there are MANY Outer Cliques.... shudder.... Oh well! I don't always "get" what goes on in the other threads myself, and they can seem pretty bizarre too.

~Susan