Glitch In The Matrix Stories #27
I saw a small blue container at the store. I wanted to buy two of them for my lunch box. I looked at the price and thought it was way too much so I decided to only buy one.
Last night, I was getting ready to prepare my lunch and was looking for the small container when I came across two of them! I froze. I could not believe it. I felt like someone had thrown cold water on me. I know I only bought one, I even checked my receipt.
I spent 15 minutes staring at both of them. I was looking for a slight difference in the design for some reason. They are both identical. I am still trying to find a reason for it just “appearing” there so I have asked my mom, my husband, and my sister if they bought me another one. None of them know what I am talking about.
So a coworker of mine has been showing up in places he shouldn’t be, and moving around in ways that seem like either teleportation or a serious reality issue in my head. Two separate occasions (both involving the bathroom, strangely).
First time, I left my workstation to go to the restroom. Exchange a few words with him on the way out, no biggie, I see him still working on his station. I take the 30-second walk to the bathroom, and as I am about to push open the door, the same man walks OUT of it.
There are only two ways you can reach this particular bathroom from where I work. I took the shorter route, which goes through a restricted area (but I have access to it with my ID badge, and he does not). The other route is double the walk time. Note: this restricted area is highly trafficked, and it would have been noticed if I simply dawdled or daydreamed and stood around there for longer than usual. I walked directly there. I’m dumbfounded when it happens, so I simply nod at him and use the bathroom as I needed. We talk afterward, but I can’t come up with a good way of asking him, so I don’t. Also, I was freaked and kinda didn’t want to think about it any more.
Second instance, about a week later. I had just gotten done in the restroom, in the middle of washing my hands, when he walks in to wash his hands as well. I look him directly in the eye, exchange small talk (actual conversation, two-way) and I even pat his shoulder as I’m headed out. As I’m leaving, another coworker sees me and starts to talk. I stop directly in the doorway, and get engrossed in the conversation. Over five minutes goes by, before I explicitly think to myself “Hey, L****** hasn’t come out of there yet. That’s odd”, but then go back to the conversation.
After another few minutes, conversation ends, and as I’m walking past the break room, I look in and there is L******, sitting down and eating a bowl of soup (that it looks like he’s mostly through with). I literally did a double take. Asked him (casually as possible) “Wait, weren’t you just in the bathroom?”, and he just looks at me, slightly confused, slightly amused, and said, “Nope, been eating my lunch”. So I just walked on, wide-eyed.
Background details. I work at an Aircraft Parts Distributor, which is certified as a Foreign Trade Zone. This is a high-security place, not open to the public, so there couldn’t be anyone resembling him walking in off the street. Vendors/Contractors are possible, but remember that I spoke to him on the second occasion, even touched him, and I stood directly in the doorway so he could not have passed without me knowing.
Credits to: Capture_the_Steve
I do customer service over the phone for a large company, and every now and then, when you are talking to someone, you can hear your voice echo. I don’t know if this is due to the server connection or if the person on the other end is on speaker phone, but it can be pretty hard to follow.
So today on the phone I answered the way I normally do: “Hello my name is ——, can I have your SHOP number please?” But today, I heard the phone echo back, in my voice: “Hello my name is —– can I have your -ACCOUNT- number please?”
I don’t even know what to make of that. Really weirded me out.
For the past few months, birthdays, anniversaries, and etc have been changing for me I’ve always been able to know when someone’s birthday is, but now everyone I know has a different birthday.
Even my own birthday changed! I swear my birthday was March 15th but now is March 9th.
Usually every date that’s different is off by only a few days, but then I found out that apparently my little cousin was born in 2009- when she should have been born in 2010. I remember going on a trip in 2010 with my aunt while she was still pregnant, but when I tried finding photos from this trip, my little cousin was in them. My aunt lived with us too, in 2009 and didn’t have kids until she moved out. She moved out around October/November 2009 but my cousin was apparently born in September 2009.
If it was only a few days that were different I would think I was just remembering it wrong, but my own birthday? And the fact that there’s no way my cousin could have been born in 2009 makes this whole thing even weirder.
