Spooky Story

[simon the viking]

Okay, so I'm in the shop I manage and I go upstairs to find the kettle on, It switches off while I'm in the kitchen proving it hadn't been boiling for hours.

My question is this.... IF I AM IN THE SHOP ON MY OWN WHO KEEPS SWITCHING THE KETTLE ON!

Its happened twice now.....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A polteageist?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh, yeah, sorry, that was me. I'll leave money for the tea bag the next time

Wouldn't it be so spooky if there really was money left the next time? *Twilight Zone tune*.


.... Sorry.

 

[Mile195]

If you're anything like me, then it's probably you...

I started to panic yesterday morning when I couldn't find my cycling shoes. They weren't in the cupboard in the hall, under the bed, or in the wardrobes. Where could they possibly have gone??

I found them 10 minutes later on the kitchen floor, where I'd put them after I already took them out of the hall cupboard... If my brain's like this at 31, christ knows what it'll be like in another 20 years!..

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Polly?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If my brain's like this at 31, christ knows what it'll be like in another 20 years!..

Better start saving up for the Sheltered Accommodation now then, eh?

 

[simon the viking]

If you're anything like me, then it's probably you...

I started to panic yesterday morning when I couldn't find my cycling shoes. They weren't in the cupboard in the hall, under the bed, or in the wardrobes. Where could they possibly have gone??

I found them 10 minutes later on the kitchen floor, where I'd put them after I already took them out of the hall cupboard... If my brain's like this at 31, christ knows what it'll be like in another 20 years!..

The first time I thought I was going mad and must have flicked it on when I went up to the stockroom and forgot I'd done it but this time, No I hadn't been upstairs in the previous hour...

 

[Mile195]

Well it's kind of handy, since you obviously wanted a cup of tea anyway. Therefore, having forgotten you'd put the kettle on already will have removed that whole time-consuming and inconvenient wait for it to boil from the process altogether. Perfect!

Your whole debacle reminds me of that old joke actually...

What's the best thing about Alzheimers?....

.....You meet new people every day!...

 

[Archie_tect]

I get bored quickly when there's a power cut at the office [it's a touchy subject] and often go downstairs to the kitchen to fill the kettle and flick the switch to make a cup of tea.... then I realise.

 

[simon the viking]

Well it's kind of handy, since you obviously wanted a cup of tea anyway. Therefore, having forgotten you'd put the kettle on already will have removed that whole time-consuming and inconvenient wait for it to boil from the process altogether. Perfect!

Your whole debacle reminds me of that old joke actually...

What's the best thing about Alzheimers?....

.....You meet new people every day!...

Can I clear this up I DID NOT put it on I promise....

 

[rich p]

Can I clear this up I DID NOT put it on I promise....

Okay, okay.
Two solutions possible
i) it's a ghost
ii) you're a nutjob
Don't start a poll is my considered advice.

 

[simon the viking]

Okay, okay.
Two solutions possible
i) it's a ghost
ii) you're a nutjob
Don't start a poll is my considered advice.

There must be a logical explanation but I really don't know what it could be

 

[4F]

Okay, okay.
Two solutions possible
i) it's a ghost
ii) you're a nutjob
Don't start a poll is my considered advice.

The OP already thinks he's a viking, therefore my vote is:- ii

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well it's kind of handy, since you obviously wanted a cup of tea anyway. Therefore, having forgotten you'd put the kettle on already will have removed that whole time-consuming and inconvenient wait for it to boil from the process altogether. Perfect!

Your whole debacle reminds me of that old joke actually...

What's the best thing about Alzheimers?....

.....You meet new people every day!...

Heard this on Radio ponce the other morning, interesting story. Guy couldn't remember anything long term after the surgery he had in 1953, any experience he had was instantly forgotten, he couldn't go anywhere on his own because he wouldn't remember where to go back to,...

When a 27 year old man known in the text books simply as HM underwent brain surgery for intractable epilepsy in 1953, no one could have known that the outcome would provide the key to unravelling one of the greatest mysteries of the human mind - how we form new memories.
HM was unable to remember anything that happened after the operation, which was conducted by Dr William Scoville in Hartford, Connecticut, though his life before the surgery remained vivid. For 55 years, until he died in December 2008 at the age of 82, HM - or Henry Molaison, as he was identified on his death - was studied by nearly 100 psychologists and neuro-scientists; he provided data that enabled them to piece together the memory process. The research was first coordinated by Dr Brenda Milner of McGill University and then by Professor Suzanne Corkin at MIT. Both women got to know Henry well, but he never got to know them; for him each meeting with them was the first.
His inability to form new memories meant that HM was unable to look after himself, but he remained cheerful, with a positive outlook on his condition. He was happy, he maintained, to provide information that could help others. And this he continues to do, even after death. His brain was dissected by Dr Jacopo Annese of the Brain Observatory at UCSD, and is the subject of an ongoing on-line collaborative study.

 

[Crackle]

The kettle's bust.