A tentative hello to everyone here, I'm feeling quite nervous about writing my first ever post and hope that I have followed procedure.
Please forgive me if I should have posted this elsewhere?
For a few years, what happened on the evening of my dad's funeral has really made me scratch my head in confusion and caused my (limited) understanding of the Laws of Physics to have a massive wobble!
My partner and I were both in our young son's room reading him a bedtime story. The curtains were drawn and no windows were open. At the end of each curtain pole was a small, extremely flimsy half plastic football which acted as a stopper so the curtains didn't fall off. (I don't know the technical name for it!). All was normal I guess and although I'd attended dad's funeral I wasn't overly upset or emotional because, my dad split up from my mum when I was about 5 (I was 44 at this point) and he chose not to be involved in my life following their divorce. (We had only reconnected 2 or so years before his passing.)
What I'm trying to get across is that although he was my "dad", he was also a total stranger to me and I had only met with him three times before his death so although I felt saddened, I didn't feel devastated.
As I was sat on the bed reading to my son, there was an almighty THUD on the middle of the floor and I was dumbfounded to see that one of the plastic footballs had somehow dislodged itself from the end of the pole and landed with extreme force on the carpet in the middle of the room! My partner and I looked at one another in shock and disbelief! This almost weightless, small plastic object, about the size of half a small ping pong ball had managed to travel about 2 feet, very fast and landed hard exactly as though it had been thrown purposely on the floor in a fit of temper!
We examined the pole in detail and could find no logical explanation for what had happened.
In fact, I reattached the football and gently nudged it off the end to see if it could have just fallen off naturally and "bounced" itself over to the middle of the room. All that resulted in, was the plastic bloody football getting cracked in two as soon as it hit the floor! (it was cheap and cheerful) . As it landed, there definitely wasn't any "bounce" nor did it travel any distance. It just fell to the floor and broke!
There is simply no explanation for it landing heavily as it did and no logical reason for it happening.
One other weird aspect of this event is the fact that despite my partner and I being spooked by what had happened, we didn't really talk about it much afterward. Like our brain refused to remember it because it was too out there!
Part of me likes to think it was my dad saying a final goodbye (or saying sorry) to a daughter he never really took the time to know!
I sincerely apologise for the length of this post and thank you for reading it. I just hope it makes sense?
Please forgive me if I should have posted this elsewhere?
For a few years, what happened on the evening of my dad's funeral has really made me scratch my head in confusion and caused my (limited) understanding of the Laws of Physics to have a massive wobble!
My partner and I were both in our young son's room reading him a bedtime story. The curtains were drawn and no windows were open. At the end of each curtain pole was a small, extremely flimsy half plastic football which acted as a stopper so the curtains didn't fall off. (I don't know the technical name for it!). All was normal I guess and although I'd attended dad's funeral I wasn't overly upset or emotional because, my dad split up from my mum when I was about 5 (I was 44 at this point) and he chose not to be involved in my life following their divorce. (We had only reconnected 2 or so years before his passing.)
What I'm trying to get across is that although he was my "dad", he was also a total stranger to me and I had only met with him three times before his death so although I felt saddened, I didn't feel devastated.
As I was sat on the bed reading to my son, there was an almighty THUD on the middle of the floor and I was dumbfounded to see that one of the plastic footballs had somehow dislodged itself from the end of the pole and landed with extreme force on the carpet in the middle of the room! My partner and I looked at one another in shock and disbelief! This almost weightless, small plastic object, about the size of half a small ping pong ball had managed to travel about 2 feet, very fast and landed hard exactly as though it had been thrown purposely on the floor in a fit of temper!
We examined the pole in detail and could find no logical explanation for what had happened.
In fact, I reattached the football and gently nudged it off the end to see if it could have just fallen off naturally and "bounced" itself over to the middle of the room. All that resulted in, was the plastic bloody football getting cracked in two as soon as it hit the floor! (it was cheap and cheerful) . As it landed, there definitely wasn't any "bounce" nor did it travel any distance. It just fell to the floor and broke!
There is simply no explanation for it landing heavily as it did and no logical reason for it happening.
One other weird aspect of this event is the fact that despite my partner and I being spooked by what had happened, we didn't really talk about it much afterward. Like our brain refused to remember it because it was too out there!
Part of me likes to think it was my dad saying a final goodbye (or saying sorry) to a daughter he never really took the time to know!
I sincerely apologise for the length of this post and thank you for reading it. I just hope it makes sense?
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