Ok, who messed with my karma wheel?

July 15th, 2008 by lynnylchan under Comments and My Life

Strange things have been happening recently. Really strange things.

Yesterday, I lost an entire streak of 5 or 6 games of Big 2 (tai dee) to one of my students. I couldn’t win at all, and I lost pretty badly even with a good hand. I don’t get it! Yes, I know I’m quite dumb at this game, but I’m not all THAT bad!

And today, I started up the music player on my phone, only for it to tell me “files corrupted”. What! I have 24 hours of music on this thing, and now I have to add them all over again? Plus it makes no sense for the files to suddenly be corrupted, I haven’t done anything to them. Faced with the prospect of an hour-long commute without music to drown out the lousy Channel 8 drama on TV Mobile, I pressed “refresh library”. Thankfully it worked, otherwise I might be a little less sane (than usual) today.

Approaching my usual bus stop, I checked my watch and got a gigantic shock. The face read 11.15am, which seemed odd given that I left the house at 10.10am and it doesn’t take an hour to get to that stop. Plus the more pressing issue of being late for work, of course. I rushed to work, with Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” in the background. I made it to the office and started up the laptop.

Imagine my confusion when the computer clock showed 10.57am. “Eh?” I thought. I looked at the actual analog clock on the wall. It read 11.05am. I looked at my watch. It read 11.40am. I took it off my wrist and readjusted it.

I know it’s perfectly possible that someone pranked me by adjusting my watch, but I’m sure it was perfectly normal yesterday. I don’t take off my watch at work, so none of the kids did it, and the only time it comes off is when I’m back at home. So, assuming that no one had the opportunity to adjust my watch - how did that discrepancy come about?

I am thoroughly befuddled. It feels like I’m the butt of a cosmic joke on some level.