Tell me about your weird coincidences. The sort where you know rationally it’s just a coincidence, but you can’t quite wrap your head around how it’s come about.
I had one of these a few years ago, and something made me think of it just now, and it still makes me question myself as to whether it really happened - but it did, there was a witness.
It was about ten o’clock at night on an autumn evening, and I was preparing to go to bed. I walked into my bathroom, and saw a huge cardinal spider sitting in the bath. I am an arachnophobe, so it had to go. Dh was away, the dc were in bed, so I put out an SOS on my local friends WhatsApp group.
My lovely friend quickly offered to come round and rescue me. Ten minutes later she was in my bathroom going “Ooh that’s a big ‘un!” and scooping up the giant spider. I opened the window, she chucked it out, and then to thank her (and to calm myself down) I opened a bottle of wine, and we sat downstairs in the kitchen for half an hour having a natter.
After she’d gone, I went back upstairs, into the bathroom, and sitting there, not just in the bath but in exactly the same spot was an identical giant cardinal spider.
I mean, WTAF? I thought I was going mad. Had I just imagined my friend’s visit? Had I not just watched her throw it out of the window?
What are the chances that another had turned up in that exact spot, hot on the heels of the first one? We do occasionally get these giant monsters in the house; but it’s like once or twice a year max, and usually elsewhere in the house. They’re not a regular occurrence (or I’d have to move out!)
Could it have just climbed back up the wall and returned to the bath? Well possibly I suppose, but it’s a three story house and the bathroom is right at the top. Then it would have had to cross the dressing room, which is quite a large room, to get to the bathroom, then drop back into the same precise spot. It’s a stretch.
I took a photo and sent it to my friend, saying “You’re not going to believe this, but… you did definitely throw the fucker outside didn’t you?!” She confirmed she definitely had, it definitely fell to the ground.
Then she came back and did the same again. She is a very good friend.