Am I dead and don't know it? Am I the guy in the Sixth Sense?

[whysonasty]

Just texted a friend who I'm supposed to have dinner with. He comes back with "OMG, I am out of the country. Completely forgot about you!"

Fine. Fine. But it's just the latest in a long line of being forgotten about and I'd love to know why I'm apparently so forgettable! I'd ask him but I'd get a non answer. I can provide many sad examples for readers who need to cheer themselves up about their own lives if they so wish. I mean... even bloody automatic doors don't see me and I've been squashed more times than I care to admit.

AIBU to ask if I could be dead and not know it? If so, can anyone out there see dead people who don't know they're dead so I can have someone reliable to talk to.

I can see you OP. Love the puns . Also I can sympathise. I get forgotten about for family parties all the time (well pre-covid). I’ll get an invitation the day before if I’m lucky.

My car is also a ghost. It’s bleugh grey and even if I have my lights on people will constantly pull out in front of me. I’m always saying “am I invisible?”.

I have this too. And the door thing - thought it was just me!

@chilling19

People walk into me in the street regularly.

That’s because they’re texting

I get this too. The automatic door at work sees me coming and shuts in my face.

What you need OP is new friends and new stuff to bring you back to life.

Imagine for a minute that you were still alive, looking down on us, just a slob like one of us, like a stranger on a bus trying to make your way home - it is possible you are God you know, what with the people not seeing you - anyways, if you WERE alive in the human sense - what sort of human would you like to be?

I'll definitely join you in the ghost club.

At work sometimes I am paged (hospital). I arrive and everyone is standing around waiting for me. "Hi, I'm here from x team" I announce loudly. Everyone ignores me... sometimes they are complaining that I am not there yet. "HELLO I AM HERE" I practically yell.... Still no one sees me. Sometimes an intern sees me and quickly looks away instead of alerting others. Maybe they think they've seen a ghost.

When I'm at work people often walk right past my till then loudly complain there's no one to serve them. I also get the automatic door thing but my dp reckons that's because I don't weigh enough to register them lol. I often go on Facebook and see my mates out at pubs and parties and I'm like where was my invite.

Now I realise I'm actually a ghost why the fuck have I been doing a Bruce Willis and going to work?!

I can't open automatic doors, touch screens either don't work at all or are too sensitive, can't wear a watch as they stop if I do, I set off alarms in shops all the time even when I haven't bought anything, tech won't work around me.

DH and DC think I'm a ghost.

@Birthcert

Now I realise I'm actually a ghost why the fuck have I been doing a Bruce Willis and going to work?!

Mind. Blown. I freakin HATE my job, yet I’ve been going there each week like an absolute freak. Oh, I’m DONE.

But nobody’s calling on the phone, @Luredbyapomegranate. Not even the Pope maybe in Rome…?

I don’t know if this is a joke thread but if not was this an actual friend or a FWB?

If it’s the second one I’d take the hint that they don’t like you in that way and if it’s the first I would let them know I was looking forward to seeing them and if it happens again then remove yourself from the friendship.

Joining the club OP

Even when I am talking the person I am talking to starts a new conversation with someone else
Yep, me too betty
Mid conversation co worker turns and says she’s going to make coffee -after I’ve spent 10 mins listening to the mind numbing details of her latest fling and then dared to start uttering a sentence about something in my life-or she just turns her back on me to talk to colleague who’s just arrived in the office.
They also don’t even wish me happy birthday yet everyone else gets a collection and a gift! I’m currently on year 2 of never having a birthday, I’m waiting to see how long it is before anyone actually notices. I’m betting not ever.

You’re not alone! I’m not only invisible but people can’t hear me either, well, I guess the two go together! Silly me!

Spent an hour listening to a friend yesterday but when I start to talk she gets messaging on her phone and I could have just said absolutely anything cos she obviously wasn’t listening!

Being squashed in the automatic door is better than being hit in the face by one that opens towards you, it's like it's not enough to just ignore me but wants to black my eye and knock me on my arse.

As far as excuses go, being out of the country has to beat any family emergency pretext.

@PostThenGhost OMG! That is sooooo annoying, same thing happens to me, but maybe I’m just tooo boring!

I see you OP!

@ISmellBurnings I gotcha! 🤣 Poor OP! Have you tried wearing neon? Get a mad haircut? Xx

It’s sad, like a holy rolling stone, back up to heaven all alone. At least you’ve got somewhere to go though eh? Before you do though pop over to @SnotRags thread, because she’s got a ghost nurse called Julie stuck in her office and I’m sure she’d like a lift (Julie not SnotRags. Although come to think of it someone did suggest that SnotRags could also be dead and not know it.)

So, that’s you SnotRags, Julie and God - that’s loads of friends already and it’s only 11.

@WonderfulYou We are both married and DH and I were both let down. The friend was the one who initiated the dinner in the first place! Maybe I carked it between then and now...

@Nannewnannew I hear you, sister. I hear you. Even if no one else does. I told my son to put his sandals on at least 26 times this morning. No reaction whatsoever. None.

@AbsoluteMother No neon. I prefer the sheer look.

Maybe we're all dead and posting on Mumsnet from beyond the grave. 🤔

[quote whysonasty]@stripeyflowers I stopped looking in mirrors once the crows feet lengthened and I started to feel dead inside.[/quote]
OP!

I am regularly trampled on in school corridors as children try to pass through my ethereal earth body and my pleas of keep to the left are carried away like a whistling on the wind.

I used to think i was speaking in chinese when the kids were at home as nothing i said was acknowledged - didn't realise i was dead! Can i join in please? Maybe this is why i like watching zombie shows?

Even my DH ignores me these days - only the dog listens, maybe she is dead as well 🤣🤣

I find most of my posts are ignored on here and are often the last one on a thread.
So not only am I dead but I am the thread killer aswell.