When I got home from work last night, I pulled into my garage and pushed the button to close my electric garage door opener. I got out of the car and when the garage door was completely down, a bolt flew from somewhere near the motor of the opener, slammed against the wall behind me and rolled near my feet.
“That can’t be good,” I thought.
The odd thing (you knew there would be an odd thing, didn’t you?) is that, when I pulled in, I parked all the way to the right side of my garage. I NEVER do that. I always park right in the middle…because I can. If I had parked where I usually park, the bolt would have smacked me right in the head or eye or mouth. I don’t even want to think about it. It shot out of there like a bullet.
I searched all up and down the mechanism until I finally found where I think the bolt came from. I replaced it and all seems well. The spot where it appears to have flown from, however, seems pretty harmless and I can't imagine how the garage door, at the very end of it's up/down sequence, could have possibly shot the bolt off of there with such force.
Damn, poltergeists.
“That can’t be good,” I thought.
The odd thing (you knew there would be an odd thing, didn’t you?) is that, when I pulled in, I parked all the way to the right side of my garage. I NEVER do that. I always park right in the middle…because I can. If I had parked where I usually park, the bolt would have smacked me right in the head or eye or mouth. I don’t even want to think about it. It shot out of there like a bullet.
I searched all up and down the mechanism until I finally found where I think the bolt came from. I replaced it and all seems well. The spot where it appears to have flown from, however, seems pretty harmless and I can't imagine how the garage door, at the very end of it's up/down sequence, could have possibly shot the bolt off of there with such force.
Damn, poltergeists.
I think your ghost must be a ..."NUT"...heheheh. I slay myself.
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Baby Sis - HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCoincidence that you parked to the right? Or perhaps you have a sixth sense and something in your subconcious knew you needed to park to the right.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're okay.
Oh, and I tagged your for a meme in my Quiz Show post.
It wasn't a poltergeist, Silly. It was a boltergeist.
ReplyDeleteOMG -- I'm so glad you had that premonition or whatever that caused you to park differently. Glad you're OK!
ReplyDeleteOh, my word! I think that would have scared the daylights out of me. Thank God for our little "spider senses" that made you park in a different spot.
ReplyDeleteWordVer: oatsex. DO oats have sex? I never knew that.:)
Leslie - I definitely have a sixth sense. I just don't usually pay attention to it.
ReplyDeleteDave - HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!! That's funny!!
Donna - Thanks. :)
Serena Joy - It did scare the crap out of me. Regarding "oatsex", maybe we should eat our Cheeri-oats before sex?
I remember a somewhat similar incident where I was heading home from work and just missed making a green light I normally would have went through (It was yellow).
ReplyDeleteTurns out that if I would have made the light I would have very likely been involved in a very serious accident involving a dump truck running a stop sign.
i was pretty shaken up for a few days afterward.
Grimm - WOW! Isn't it amazing when things like that happen.
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