The Twilight Zone
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.” ― Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories
Have you ever had a day or week in which you felt like you were trapped in a Twilight Zone episode?
This week, more specifically today more than the other days this week, not only are my dreams really crazy, but EVERYTHING has made me feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode. Verbal exchanges, work-related server crashes, my kids actually cleaning up after themselves, the weather going from a 17F low to a near-60F high... it's all been nuts.
How about you, have you ever had a week where nothing is "usual" or typical?
NO POLITICS! NO PRESIDENTS PAST OR PRESENT!
NO POLITICS! NO PRESIDENTS PAST OR PRESENT!
Yep, that's pretty odd.
You could always move to Twin Peaks ...
I think I'm having a Twin Peaks experience this week.
I had one of those for 5 weeks after a sub-dermal brain bleed ... my advice is lean back and try to enjoy it.
This has been a nutty kind of stressful week for me and I only go into the office twice a week. There were so many assholes on the road. I got really annoyed with someone who works in the Chairmans office (I think she has come in twice since we were sent home) and I was trying to help her out and do her a favor and she e-mailed the person I was going to drop a check off for her (to our Finance office) and said let me know if she DOESN'T DO THIS (I mean essentially insulting me and I'm trying to do her a favor) and I had a delay in getting my first Co-vid vaccine that same day so I wasn't in the mood for her bullshit. I had an appointment scheduled through the hospital where I work and when I went to get my shot - the woman asked to see my ID - it had expired - and she said I couldn't get the vaccine until I went over the Security and got a new badge. It's just an ID that you have to show to get into the hospital. Security (the Badge office anyway) was closed that day. So I complained to the powers that be and the situation was resolved. But it really put kind of a damper on the whole day.
Have the powers to be done anything to correct it so it doesn't happen again or just a one time fix?
It turns out I wasn't the only one turned away. This was all arranged by my employers so if I wasn't an actual employee I wouldn't have been able to get the appointment in the first place. The person who took care of this is the Program Manager, Division of Quality and Safety, University of Maryland Medical Center.
She let them know I was coming over and I got my vaccine.
Are you in Annapolis?
This was in downtown Baltimore where I work
When I was stationed at CG HQ in DC, lived in Glen Burney and used to go eat at a little Italian restaurant in Baltimore (believe it was Dalesio's) - fabulous food. Drove a CG Buoy Tender out of Baltimore.
No way! Small world! My best friend and I shared an apartment in Glen Burnie and we used to get high and go this place called Crab Town (I think it was) and play pinball and drink beer. I don't recall Dalesio's unless it's a place I'm thinking of that was on Ritchie Highway and Ordnance Road.
My dad was in the Coast Guard!
Baltimore is kind of special place for me. It was the very first city in America that I ever visited (as an tiny infant in a basket when my parents brought me there to visit relatives) and the very last city in America that I was ever in (for my son's wedding) and I flew back to Toronto from there.
Well, a happy Semper Paratus to you and yours
Got some really great food and the prices aren't/weren't that bad (back in '88). Always dined on the 2nd deck for better view of the nightlife.
I lived in the Crain Court Apartments on, obviously, Crain Highway S. Kinda ragtown, inexpensive, but right next to Hwy 100 which took me to DC. My favorite Restaurant was the Founder's Tavern and Grill on Richie Hwy.
Applied to volunteer for a Mentoring program in our local school district and was verbally hired. Went through the background check stuff and they got a "hit" on my record for a DUI I got in '85. No court, just pay the fine and go home. The district said they can't use me based on that "hit" of 36 years ago.
Funny thing - I've been mentoring Native American school/college kids for 23 years - weird.
That's nuts.
I’m doing the civil engineering for a new high school near DC right now. It’s replacing an existing one on the same property. Let’s just say it’s not in a great part of town. Yet I cannot even visit the site personally, because I haven’t yet been fingerprinted by whatever bullshit authority that is in charge of protecting the public school children. Yeah, I’m the threat to them ... uh-huh. Frankly I’m a little scared to set foot there. One our design team members says every time he goes there there’s kids hanging out in a wooded area smoking weed.
I LOVE THAT SONG!
Me too. I always use to think that when I heard it on the radio, something good was going to happen. (Dealer would come through, etc)
Is that country?
Nope early 80's rock.
Golden Earing - Twilight Zone
OHHH! Now I remember the song! Definitely a good one.
Remember... I was only 3 when that song came out.
I was 16.
"Remember... I was only 3 when that song came out."
Hmmmm, me too, yeah, that's the ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was around 18 I think actually at the time. They still play it on an oldies rock station in my area some time and I love to crank it up.
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My employer is so dysfunctional, out of touch with reality, and woefully inefficient that I constantly feel like I’m on an episode of Punk’d. One of these days Ashton Kutcher will pop out and this will all make sense.
I remember when I was in the Navy and the amphibious assault ship I was on was in the Indian Ocean. One night I could not sleep so I went up to the flight deck to get some fresh air. All of a sudden the ship had a complete power failure and went dead in the water for about a hour. Very eerie with no lights and no noise. The next nightI went up on deck about the same time and it happened again! Strange enough that it happened two nights in a row, but it happened a third night!
Wow. That would be eerie and strange!
Sounds more like you were in the Bermuda Triangle.
Well, thankfully I did not see any strange looking glows or lights moving at fast speed underwater!
That would definitely be even scarier!
When was this? I have seen reports of China, India, Israel, Russia and even the US all dabbling in EMP weapons and EMP defense systems, sometimes in the Indian Ocean in the late 1990s and early 2000's. Wonder if it may have had something to do with testing those types of systems?
This was in 1981.
Ahhh. Tarawa class ship? Nuclear steam power drive? Strange that the whole ship would go dead like that. That would be spooky for sure!
Actually it was the USS Okinawa LPH-3, Iwo Jima class. We called her the USS Brokinawa or Jokinawa, as she was constantly dropping the load as it was called and going dead in the water without warning at any time of the day or night. All amphibious ships in the US Navy are conventional powered and only nuke powered ones are aircraft carriers and submarines.
I have lived in the TZ for so long, I finally bought a condo there.
I was traveling with my parents through eastern Nevada on I 80. I was 15 at the time and we got a flat tire on our boat trailer. My mom made me a lunch and gave me a jug of water and I stayed with the boat while they went to Winnemucca for a new tire.
I was sitting in the shade under the boat when a man walked up. Keep in mind that I'm maybe 40 miles from any town. "Mind if I sit with you? There's some other people coming and they're drunk and might give you trouble."
I offered him some water but he didn't want any. It was 100 degrees and he didn't seem to have any water or a backpack or anything.
Sure enough a man and a woman walk up about 10 minutes later and they were drunk. They didn't stay very long and continued to walk down the road.
Maybe an hour later my parents got back with the tire and the man walked off down the road. We put the tire on the trailer, hooked up, and started down the highway.
I asked my parents if we could offer the man a ride. "You think that's safe?" If he was gonna kill me he would have already. We decided to give him a ride but he was nowhere to be seen. The other people had disappeared too. They were still in the twilight zone.
Hair standing on the back of my neck just reading that.