Seems like Val isn't the only one to have mysterious goings-on around her when she least expects it. Last night, I was texting with The Pony about his Christmas gift of donut pans.
"We made donuts from the recipe!"
"How did they turn out?"
"They came out a bit too mushy, so either our oven didn't cook long enough, or it suggests a bit too much applesauce in the recipe."
"I've been meaning to try making donuts with Genius's possessed pans."
"Oh! Possessed pans! One of my mixing bowls was sitting on my counter for a week and a half. Earlier today I was showering and I heard a godawful metal clattering and it was laying on the ground when I came out."
So goes February for Thevictorians.
It could have just...or maybe it...probably...OK, that's spooky!
ReplyDeleteI can't fabricate a reasonable explanation. The Pony lives alone in his apartment. I don't know how long ago he had a friend over to make the donuts. If the bowl had just been stacked there for a couple hours...maybe it could have slid off-balance gradually. Over a week-and-a-half? I don't think so.
DeleteI thought something spooky was happening in the kitchen until I figured out must have stacked the pot right and it just fell on the floor. Or, did I stack it right and it jumped of its own volition?
ReplyDeleteI try to assess the physics involved (thanks to 28 years of teaching science), but sometimes come up short of a solution. The longer the time, and the lack of outside forces affecting it...the more I figure some uncommon force might be involved.
DeleteI guess the mixing bowl got fed up with being left on the counter for a week and tried to put itself back into the cupboard it usually lives in. (*~*)
ReplyDeleteThe Pony will never win any awards for tidiness. It wouldn't surprise me if that bowl had only been rinsed, and not properly washed!
DeleteI suspect... I guess... I know...
ReplyDeleteWhen I have a visitor it is often int he bathroom. I enter without touching the opened door, and without any movement, or jarring, a towel will jump off the hook. Okay my husband says it falls off, but I know. Just like you know. Don;t know if I'd rather have the visitor in the bathroom or bedroom like your son has.
The timing is suspect. Like when my basement light would only go off when I was thinking about it, hoping it would NOT go off! Or come back on several days later, when I was there, having decided that it was just a burned-out bulb.
DeleteAt least your visitor doesn't make you sleep on the couch!
You could blame it all on air movement, like when someone in India sneezes it sets of a chain reaction of minor wind gusts.....
ReplyDeleteThat's about the only plausible explanation. Oklahoma has no shortage of wind gusts. They have to start somewhere.
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