Do you ever have something happen to you that makes you feel like you found a crack in the universe somewhere – like something messed up and gave you a peek behind the curtain? Or like you are onto something that is top secret? A glitch in the matrix, perhaps?

Deja-vu ranks among these moments, but I had another freaky one the other day, and I’m pretty sure there is a conspiracy involving me at the center of this.

I had just dropped off Lucie at preschool and was listening to the traffic report on the radio. They were reporting on a collision. It was right in the traffic circle I’d just driven through moments earlier. Only, I didn’t remember seeing any collision. It must have happened right after I left. Phew, that was close.

But, moments later, I came back through that same circle, and … nothing. No collision. No police blockade as the radio had reported. Perhaps they got a bad tip, but just moments later they reported it again – “still backing up traffic in the traffic circle so you’ll want to stay on the outside lane to avoid that” reported Rod Kurtz to the CBC faithful. Weird. I shrugged it off.

Until the NEXT day.

I am coming through the same traffic circle, at the same time. What do I see – the exact situation described on the radio the day before. Accident. Outside lane only in use. Police blocking the way. It is just what I would have expected to see, had it been the day before.

And no reports on this one that I remember.

So, what happened here folks?

Is this just life with the kids eating away at my rational brain? Or am I in the center of a sci-fi short story concept?

Every had a day like that?

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