Uncanny
An excerpt from a phone conversation I had tonight with my sister:
Sis: I’ve been thinking all day about that book by Walter Farley, “The Black Stallion’s Blood Bay Colt.”
*the sound of Twilight Zone music fills the airwaves*
Me: You have got to be kidding…I downloaded it at… let me see… 1:15 a.m. this morning from Bookshare. I had this sudden urge to read it, after all these years!
*cue laughter, the kind you only hear exchanged between siblings who don’t care if their shrieks of laughter sound like honking geese to anyone else who might be listening*
Sis: When was the last time I read that book… 1958? 1960? When was the last time we even talked about “The Black Stallion” books?
Me: I’m thinking mid-1960s…
We’ve often shared these experiences among us, and similar ones with our other sibs.
Three years ago I sent my mother a CD as a gift. I happened to call my Mom a few days later while my other sister was visiting. That sister picked up the phone and said, out of the blue, “What’d you buy Mom? A CD of bird calls, right?”
Right.
Which left us convulsed with laughter, as my mother hadn’t told her about the CD, I hadn’t talked to my sister about the gift, and I had never mentioned sending anything to my mother about birds much less a CD on something as esoteric and unexpected as bird calls!
Incidents like this are rife in my family. Several years back, for example, my three sisters independently all picked out and then sent to my mother the identical birthday card. They didn’t shop at the same stores or store chains, either, to find the card; one of the three lived in Alabama at the time, while the other two lived in separate cities in Michigan.
My sisters and I have spontaneously bought the same swatches of patterned fabric (while living hundreds of miles apart), purchased the exact same pairs of shoes, sent identical gifts to each other, and more. Much more.
I’m sure all of this is sheer coincidence.
Right?
Yeah. Right!
I think I’ll go finish reading my book now.
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December 3, 2008 2:49 am
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By Balancing Act, December 10, 2008 @ 11:53 am
Wow… it just goes to show you how well you know each other and how much you are alike. You are all very lucky indeed!
By JAS, December 10, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
The funny part is that as individuals we really aren’t that much alike – and I haven’t even lived in the same state for over 30 years with any of my siblings!