"The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead."

-W.H. Auden

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Random Strangeness Strikes In The Housewares Deparment


In keeping with the previous post, Thanksgiving week brought a moment of  unexpected department store oddness.

We were at a Target store in Houston, hunting for cans of Sterno. Everything was as you'd expect - one Target store being much like another Target store. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, I was struck by a weird feeling, a sort of dizziness and many-layered deja vu. I said aloud, "jeez, that's weird" and the spouse said "yeah, I feel dizzy." We agreed there was something weird about just this one little spot, but could come to no conclusion about what it was.

While we were waiting for a worker (lovely man, very helpful) to find the Sterno, I snapped a photo of the deja vu inducing area, because, erm, that's what I do. Just in case there might be some clue there that would only be evident with study. As you can see, it's a photo of....coat hooks.

Nothing much exciting going on there. No obvious cause of odd sensations striking us in the housewares department. Maybe the stark black and white color scheme had something to do with it, or perhaps all the little holes in the pegboard caused some sort of visual overload.Who can tell? It was just one of those brief down-the-rabbit-hole moment that crop up seemingly just to keep you on your toes.

We paid for our cans of Sterno and left, and nothing else strange happened at all. Well, except the person in the next stall in the restroom unexpectedly shouted "whoo-hooo!" but probably that was nothing supernatural. ;)

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