Wooo. Spooky? Glitch in the Matrix type thing?

[MattDillonsPants]

We've recently moved across the globe with our children. We now live in a country town in Australia. When we were in the UK, I rode a bike with a tagalong on the back...that's a one wheeled bike attachment which a small kid can sit on and pedal...it makes an ordinary bike into a tandem. You can unclip them easily.

Anyway...I still ride my bike but alone because my daughter is now too big for a tagalong...we gave ours away before we moved here.

My neighbour is in his 80s...very delicate seeming old man...when I first met him my DH saw me speaking to him in the street...DH was in the house and glanced out ....when I got in he asked me what he was like I said..."He's very old, a bit dreamy...it's like he's half in the other world already." which was a bit of a fanciful thing to say but it's the impression I got.

Yesterday DH met him for the first time to speak to...DH was cutting down some plants in the front and the neighbour came out with his wife...he chatted to DH about the weather a bit and then said "What's that thing...when your wife rides her bike...what's that contraption on the back...the extra bike?"

THere IS no contraption on my bike any more. It's not even the same bike. My husband was confused for a moment and said "What?" and the old man's wife waved her hand and mouthed "he gets confused" then she said "Maybe he saw it in a dream."

Weird?

It sounds funny but that contraption...my tagalong was such an important part of my daily life for so long...maybe he saw it's ghost? :D

[MattDillonsPants]

Nooo. Not here. There are no other neighbours and definitely nobody else on a bike!

[HoldMeCloserTonyDanza]

Maybe they were Facebook stalking you and saw an old picture?

[Vixxfacee]

80 year old neighbour stalking you on Facebook. Seeks unlikely

[OhShutUpThomas]

Weird!

[liz70]

Perhaps he did have a vision of you in a previous point in time. You could ask him if he could give a more detailed description; what you wearing etc.

[Gabilan]

Where was the sun? Was it just your shadow following you?

[liz70]

Aargh! I meant "what you were wearing". Effing touch screen.

[MattDillonsPants]

I highly doubt he's on FB! He's very old and delicate iykwim. Boopsy it was only about a year ago that I rode the bike with the tagalong on it. I wasn't that much younger :D

No pics of me on FB on bike anyway.

[MattDillonsPants]

Arfarfanarf what doesn't have to be recent?

[Gabilan]

Well he could if he's got transglobal vision Arfar.

[MattDillonsPants]

Oh I see! Yes, Arf...I never rode the bike with tagalong in this country.

[Iggi999]

Child has mentioned it to him?

[gooseberryroolz]

Are you expecting us to say 'ah yes, matrix glitch, deffo'?

[liz70]

Visions aren't confined to one country, or world even.

There could be some straightforward explanation, but I'd keep an open mind. More things in heaven and Earth and all that.

[BalloonSlayer]

Um you sure you didn't mention it to him in your first conversation

[FairiesAreReal]

Weird! Maybe he is a bit psychic?

[Gabilan]

Nah. It's bikes. They have miffic powers

[gooseberryroolz]

It could have been a saddle bag or a streamer thingy or literally anything attached to the bike that he saw.

[ouryve]

Old people can and do use the Internet, you know

[CubicZirconiaBossyBabe]

Planted memory?

One of you might have mentioned it without thinking about it, and now he thinks he remembers seeing it but he is only really remembering the description

[liz70]

More details needed, I think. Could you talk to him, preferably without his wife around, who may shush him and be dismissive again. Ask for more description if he can, without patronising (which I'm sure you wouldn't) or giving suggestions. He may be able to furnish you with more detail.

[APlaceOnTheCouch]

He's psychic. Now ask him who is going to be President of the US. I'm quite keen to know and beyond bored already with all the commentary.