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Weird Day

So today was kind of weird.  I had 3 out of the usual things happen:

Happening # 1 – The Random Bike Ride:

So I went for a random bike ride.  It was pretty nice out so I thought I would check out Radnor trail.  It’s a cool little paved bike path with an entrance basically right near my new place.  I decided to check it out.  I took my bike out and pedaled off to the trail.

The trail is nice.  It’s just a few miles straight with only small hills.  I saw a lot of people running as well.  I’ll most likely use it to go jogging on as well as ride my bike.

What’s so weird about that?  Well… about halfway through my bikeride a fellow came up beside me and started chit chattin about my bike… it’s a folding bike so it’s a little different from most bikes.

I thought, eh people have done that before.  It’s cool.  Well, we kept chatting and riding next to each other.  Then after the trail had been ridden we ended up continuing to chat and bike together for a little while.  He showed me where the famers market is and he was just an all around awesome dude.  We biked back to near where my place was and then parted ways.

It was super random and unusual.  But he was just completely friendly and awesome and I wasn’t expecting to have someone to bike around with.  So that was pretty cool to have a complete stranger just be so super friendly.

I think this first one wasn’t really weird or strange, but it was simply unexpected.  But at the same time it was very much welcomed!  I wish we all lived in a society where it was very easy to be friendly with complete strangers!  Why are we so weird about talking to people we don’t know?

Happening # 2 – The reverse rear end:

This was most definitely very much so weird.  I witnessed a really strange car accident.  So here’s the setup.  Two cars are traveling down a pretty busy main road.  Car number 1 is a super newish looking BMW SUV.  The driver is very business looking.

Behind the BMW is car number two.  A really old Honda Civic.  The driver is a super young looking dude who has on tshirt and jeans and just looks like he might have recently rolled out of bed. Bed head crazy hair going all over the place look.

So BMW has Honda pretty close behind it.  Then all of a sudden the BMW slows and stops.  Then the Honda starts honking.  Then the Honda keeps the hand on the horn and just holds it down.  So then the BMW starts backing up.  It keeps backing up until it hits the Honda.  The force was enough to break some plastic off and make it go flying.

Then the BMW starts to go forward and drive into the next parking lot up ahead.  The Honda follows it.  Then the BMW gets on the phone and makes a phone call.  While the Honda guy just gets out and seems to be screaming angrily at the BMW.

After a short while the police show up.  I don’t know what happened after that…

I have a bad feeling that I should have stayed as a witness to set things straight with the police.  Now, I don’t know for sure and it’s not good to assume things…

But here’s what I think might have gone down.  I think this was a bad case of road rage.

I think the Honda driver was pissing off the BMW driver.  So the BMW did the whole stop in the middle of the road just to piss off the Honda guy and to make him go around so he could either be rid of him.  Or I think that the BMW was then going to follow the Honda close on the tail.  As soon as the Honda driver started holding down the horn I think that’s when the BMW got really pissed and came up with the following plan.

Hmmmm… Nice looking BMW… Business suit dressed guy… Jalopy looking Honda missing a hubcap and kid that looks like he might possibly be high.

BMW reverses, backs into Honda… BMW calls the cops and here’s what I think he probably said…

“Hey, yes I’ve just been rear ended, I need a police officer right away”

The police officer shows up…

“Officer this person rear ended me… I was just driving along and bam…”

Honda guy: “That’s NOT true at all, he backed into me.”

If you were the police officer who would you believe?  No other witnesses to confirm who was actually telling the truth.

So the cop is faced with a business suit dressed man driving a nearly brand new BMW SUV on one side of the argument and a tattered jeans and tshirt kid with crazy hair driving a hubcap missing beat up Honda civic from the mid 90’s on the other.

The damage on both cars seems to indicate that the BMW was rear ended by the Honda.

What a crap situation.  Because I think most people in the police officers shoes would probably think the kid is lying and the business suit guy is on the up and up.

But seeing it happen I know that the kid was on the up and up and the business person was at fault.

It’s very weird to have the view of knowing what ACTUALLY happened, and then not really having a way to set things straight.

I guess I can only hope that what comes around goes around and things will eventually even themselves out.

It was a very weird situation.

Happening #3 – unknown callers:

So every now and then I get a random call.  But usually I can figure out who it is… telemarketers can be easily identified because Googling the number that called usually results in an 800notes.com entry about it.

If it’s a friend calling from a new phone number they usually will either A: not even call, but text. Or B: they will at least leave a voicemail.  In this case it was very mysterious…

I tried texting both numbers shortly after they called but got no response.  Maybe tomorrow I’ll try to call back and say hey what’s shakin?  I figure if it was super important they would have def left a voicemail, or they might have kept trying to call.  So, maybe they are just mistakenly calling me drunk?  Hmmm… I guess like the number of licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop… the world may never know.  Or, at least I might never know…

Ohhhhh but the curiosity is driving me nuts!!!  Oh well.

Anywho… So… If anyone has any information leading to the identity  of these callers let me know!

I feel like Robert Stack in unsolved mysteries.

No lie, we used to watch this show as a family…  It was one of my favorite shows… It scared the crap out of me and I’d have nightmares for a few days after watching it… but then the next week, I’d be begging to watch it again.  It was just strangely addictive and terrifying at the same time!

So here’s the random details on the mystery callers:

Caller number 1 is a 908 number… as far as I can Google, it’s a North Jersey number.

They called twice.  The first call was at 12:39am on April 10^th.  Then they called again right away at 12:40am.  They left a very odd voicemail.

The voicemail is 13 seconds long… it’s just breathing… CREEEEEPY… then I hear a hardcore jersey accent… there’s two dudes…

 

Dude A: “Should I call it back?”

Dude B: “YEA BOYYYYYYY”

I added the BOYYYYYY part… he just said, YEA… if he had said YEA BOYYYYYYYY there would be no mystery… The caller would be none other than:

FLAAAAAAAVOR FLAAAAAAAAVE

 

Ok so then 6 minutes later I get a call from a 610 number.  As far as I can google from this number it’s a philly number… But I already knew that and didn’t need google to tell me this.

 

Anyways, soooo this person didn’t leave a vmail.

 

So I have a policy that I don’t answer any numbers that aren’t in my address book contacts list thing.  So if you are calling me or texting make sure you leave your name at least!  Otherwise I’ll probably think you accidentally dialed my number or you are a telemarketer.

So that was weird thing number three.

But you know what they say… things come in 3’s.  Unless we’re talking about eyes, or arms, or ears.  Those all come in 2’s.  That would be super weird if they came in 3’s.