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Ephemeral Spectre
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- Apr 5, 2011
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I live on a quiet residential street, where we all have our own small drives and there's never many cars parked on the street.
This morning, after dropping the kids off at school, I turned into my road and saw that a small lorry thing was backed onto my drive. 'Oh good!' I thought, 'They've finally come to pick up our skip.' We've had a midi skip sat on our drive for a few weeks and the skip firm keep telling me they are going to pick it up when I call them, but then they never do.
I pulled over to the left (my house is on the opposite side) and watched a man get out of one side of the cab (the driver's side) and open the door to the other. He clocked me staring at him (like I said it's a quiet, empty street) and I thought I'd better park and go speak to him as the skip was not mounted onto the lorry yet.
So I did. I drove a couple of car lengths onwards, to where I could park without being in front of anyone else's drive, stopped and got out of the car and, erm, the small lorry thing had vanished.
I know that's sounds silly, because what it had obviously done is drive off, but I can't figure out how the vehicle managed to pull out of my drive (narrow squeeze for a lorry to get through my gate), get to the end of my street, turn left or right onto the busy main road, and drive far enough along it for me not to catch a glimpse (you can see a good section of the main road from my street because the two buildings on both corners lay back). I couldn't have been more than a few seconds parking up my car! It wouldn't have been time for that man to get into the cab, close the door and put his belt on! And that's presuming there was another person on the driver's side to drive it off straight away!
I stood on the road just staring at where the lorry should have been. I was stunned. I got some crazy idea that the lorry must be hidden behind my hedge and so I crossed the road and looked into my drive, where of course there was no lorry, just a skip.
I parked my car onto my drive and entered my house feeling really odd. I didn't know what to do with myself and so I went to text my husband about the weird thing that had just happened and I realised that my hands were shaking!
The only sensible explanation is that I must have spent a lot longer parking my car and getting out of it than I realised, although I can't figure out how - what was I doing? And if they weren't the skip company come to get my skip, then what the hell were they doing backed onto my drive? The road is plenty wide enough to turn around in, or there's a side road they could have backed into just in front of where I parked which would have been much easier to use!
Anyway, not as glamorous as a UFO or a ghost sighting, but it's freaked me out enough today to want to come on here and record what happened!
This morning, after dropping the kids off at school, I turned into my road and saw that a small lorry thing was backed onto my drive. 'Oh good!' I thought, 'They've finally come to pick up our skip.' We've had a midi skip sat on our drive for a few weeks and the skip firm keep telling me they are going to pick it up when I call them, but then they never do.
I pulled over to the left (my house is on the opposite side) and watched a man get out of one side of the cab (the driver's side) and open the door to the other. He clocked me staring at him (like I said it's a quiet, empty street) and I thought I'd better park and go speak to him as the skip was not mounted onto the lorry yet.
So I did. I drove a couple of car lengths onwards, to where I could park without being in front of anyone else's drive, stopped and got out of the car and, erm, the small lorry thing had vanished.
I know that's sounds silly, because what it had obviously done is drive off, but I can't figure out how the vehicle managed to pull out of my drive (narrow squeeze for a lorry to get through my gate), get to the end of my street, turn left or right onto the busy main road, and drive far enough along it for me not to catch a glimpse (you can see a good section of the main road from my street because the two buildings on both corners lay back). I couldn't have been more than a few seconds parking up my car! It wouldn't have been time for that man to get into the cab, close the door and put his belt on! And that's presuming there was another person on the driver's side to drive it off straight away!
I stood on the road just staring at where the lorry should have been. I was stunned. I got some crazy idea that the lorry must be hidden behind my hedge and so I crossed the road and looked into my drive, where of course there was no lorry, just a skip.
I parked my car onto my drive and entered my house feeling really odd. I didn't know what to do with myself and so I went to text my husband about the weird thing that had just happened and I realised that my hands were shaking!
The only sensible explanation is that I must have spent a lot longer parking my car and getting out of it than I realised, although I can't figure out how - what was I doing? And if they weren't the skip company come to get my skip, then what the hell were they doing backed onto my drive? The road is plenty wide enough to turn around in, or there's a side road they could have backed into just in front of where I parked which would have been much easier to use!
Anyway, not as glamorous as a UFO or a ghost sighting, but it's freaked me out enough today to want to come on here and record what happened!
