Your own personal mysteries.

[gramma dishes]

Who cancelled the cleaning lady? ...
My mother called the agency and was told someone called and cancelled on her behalf.

If I had to take a wild guess, it would be that someone really wanted a cleaning lady last Wednesday, knew somehow that was your Mom's time slot and cancelled "for" your mom so that the caller would now have access to her cleaning lady on the day she needed one!  I know someone who had that happen to them. 

The agency figured out who it was by who suddenly just happened to call to request a cleaning person in that cancelled time slot.  The agency wouldn't deal with that person, or anyone at that address again after that.

[ShanghaiJill]

Who cancelled the cleaning lady? ...
My mother called the agency and was told someone called and cancelled on her behalf.

If I had to take a wild guess, it would be that someone really wanted a cleaning lady last Wednesday, knew somehow that was your Mom's time slot and cancelled "for" your mom so that the caller would now have access to her cleaning lady on the day she needed one!  I know someone who had that happen to them. 

The agency figured out who it was by who suddenly just happened to call to request a cleaning person in that cancelled time slot.  The agency wouldn't deal with that person, or anyone at that address again after that.

A good theory, but this is through a charity for the elderly and people are allotted a certain amount of hours per week.   

My mother will call on Monday to investigate.

[gramma dishes]

Is there a possibility that your Mom misunderstood and the cleaning lady herself had to cancel for some reason?

[ShanghaiJill]

Wouldn't the agency call Mom to cancel?

[gramma dishes]

Wouldn't the agency call Mom to cancel?

One would think so. 

I still think it may have been someone who wanted to steal borrow her cleaning lady for the day before Thanksgiving! 

[Kimblee]

Aaaaaa!  Look who came home!



I found him perched on the bathroom faucet this morning!

Watch out!  Next week he'll be getting a letter. 

"Dear Blue Froggy, I have given birth to a whole bunch of tadpoles and you owe me $10 a week per tadpole until their legs come in. 
Love, Pink Froggy."

You win. That turned my whiny little sulky mood this morning into giggles.

[zyrs]

Where are my FIL's pants?

For Christmas we had very specific instructions from my SIL on what to get my FIL.  Part of the specifications were 28" inseam xl velcro fly pants.  (He is having some finger issues.) 

So we bought him 3 pairs of pants, jeans, khakis and a pair of dark slacks - he unwrapped them Christmas day and we hung them in his closet, all on one hanger because he didn't have any more hangers. 

The day after Christmas he called because SIL couldn't find more than 2 pair.  The next day, he called because they still couldn't find one pair.  Today I went over and went through his closet.  No pairs at all, although I did notice he was wearing the pair of pants that was supposedly missing - he said "no, SIL bought me these." 

Hopefully he is just confused - but I would love to know where the rest of the pants we bought him went. 

<solved>  Even though the pants are exactly the waist and inseam that my SIL specified, she took them all home the day after Christmas to alter them.  She didn't bother to mention it to my FIL...

[ica171]

Who left their toiletries at my mom's house?

At Christmas she mentioned that she had found a bag of toiletries--all new unopened packages of toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, hair styling stuff, deodorant--and had no idea who it belonged to. Everyone who would have had access to leave it was at the party and it didn't belong to anyone. So where did it come from?

[ica171]

And another one. I got a call today confirming my appointment tomorrow afternoon with a doctor I've never heard of. My name, my phone number, but I didn't make this appointment. The doctor works at the same clinic as the doctor I have to have as my primary care physician through my insurance, but since I'm currently pregnant I see an OB at a completely different office that is in no way affiliated with this one. The woman calling was able to tell me the day "I" made the appointment, that it was an annual physical...except it wasn't me. The closest I can figure is that someone with a name the same as or similar to mine (I have a very common name) made an appointment and someone clicked the wrong person in the database. She said she was canceling the appointment so they might have a bit of a headache if they show up tomorrow.

[jedikaiti]

The Mysterious Book...

Back in the late 1980s, my Dad was at one of those used book sales where someone sets up in a hotel ballroom with a bunch of tables covered with boxes of used books. Dad was wandering through, and a rather old hardcover book caught his eye. The writing on the spine is too faded to read, so he picked it up to look at it. Flipped it open, and found an inscription: "To Adele from Billy, on our wedding day, CityName, State 1936"

He'd found the book that my maternal grandfather had given to my maternal grandmother (Dad's PILs) as a wedding gift, in a city halfway across the country, 50 years prior. My grandparents were originally from the area in which my family lived when Dad found the book, but had been married in CityName due to Grandpa having to live there for work at the time, before they moved back a couple years later. Nobody knows when or how it vanished from their home, or how it ended up at that sale. Or why on earth this faded unreadable spine caught my Dad's eye.

[TurtleDove]

The Mysterious Book...

I love this story!

[LauraW]

I'd like to know why the lamps we bought several years ago would turn themselves on at all hours of the day and night. They were brass, swingarm, wallmounted, lamps that were turned on by touching any metal part. We mounted them on either side of the bed on our guest bedroom. They would turn on by themselves, sometimes singly, sometimes together. No one was in the room, and I watched them turn on one night in the wee hours! I called the company which made them and they had no idea what could have caused them to turn on, but suggested we return them. We did, and the clerk, upon hearing why we were returning them, stated,"I wouldn't have those things in my house!!

[Miriam]

I wish I knew what my cat stares at for hours at a time (at night!). My mother and great-grandmother often talk about cats having sixth senses so that's the first thing I jump to and freak out over. If only she would stop..staring..at nothing.

[snowfire]

I wish I knew what my cat stares at for hours at a time (at night!). My mother and great-grandmother often talk about cats having sixth senses so that's the first thing I jump to and freak out over. If only she would stop..staring..at nothing.

So verrrrry true!  One of mine is currently up at the top of her 8 foot tall cat tree....staring at the wall.

It is even worse when they are doing that and suddenly freak out as if they had seen monsters.  Makes me jump every time.

[BarensMom]

Baren will sometimes stop and stare for several minutes up towards a corner of the ceiling.  He doesn't seem frightened - he just stares intently at nothing that I can see.