I was taking the local A.R.T. bus to HEB to pick up some stuff from the pharmacy (a trek I make every three or four weeks, usually because at the end of the month I don't have the funds for a delivery), a voyage that takes me about 2 1/2 hours to complete. It used to be driven by the genial Mr. Wade, but he has been more or less phased out after a heart attack, and now the cheerful Ms. Chantel has taken over the route. Now Wade had a stuffed tiger in the window of the bus as sort of a mascot, rather sun-faded from the years, and it remains faithfully in the window. Now it's been months since the changeover, and I'd never thought about the stuffed animal before, but on this round I happened to be thinking about the fact. Suddenly, just at the moment the thought occurred to me, another bus regular, an elderly man I'll call Bob, piped up, making small talk with the bus-driver as he does, and mentioned out of nowhere, "That tiger belonged to Wade."
Now I wasn't particularly focused on the toy, and it hadn't moved or done anything to draw attention to it. Just coincidence? Thought transference? The AI universe just kicking up an ad? I was a little ... well, I won't say stunned or amazed, but certainly surprised and momentarily intrigued. Than I almost immediately forgot it. After all, as significant as they sometimes seem, what do such phenomena mean and what can you do with them? It may be some sort of natural power, but it seems a rather stupid and pointless power. But it again leaves one with the feeling that things are stranger than can be explained. Sometimes this seems a world of small wonders.
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