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Very Strange.....

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  1. Tomf-1

    Tomf-1 F1 Rookie

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    Was working late at home last night to prepare for our board meeting this morning and at around 11:45pm or so I realized that I needed some important spreadsheets for presentation and the file is at the office. It was such a glorious night....cool and light breeze, not a spec of cloud in the sky so a few minutes pass midnight...I pulled into the parking lot of our 15 story-building, walked to the front door and got inside the bldg using my magnatic security card...Normally, there are at least a few unrelenting workaholic souls who works late along with one or two security guards patroling the building but tonight.....I am quite accustomed to coming in the office late at night esp. if I need to tend to overnight trading. Tonight it was unusually quite but I thought to myself "nothing out of the ordinary".

    I walked to the elevator and pressed the button. There are six elevators in our building and typically it only takes a few seconds for one to open esp. late at night. Last night, it took about 4 to 5 minutes. Perhaps the cleaning crew at nights forgot to release the buttons on the elevators when they left....No big deal since this won't take long, I thought. Finally, the door came open. I got in and pressed 8 floor.....It closed...and went up to...the 5th floor and stopped. The door opened but no one got in. I thought perhaps someone mistakenly pressed the up button instead of down and peaked outside but no one was outside the elevator. The door closed...and as soon as the door closed....I was hit immediately with an overwhelmed scent of Perfume....It smelled like someone dumped a whole bottle on their body....and it was the scent of "White Shoulder", a fairly cheap and discontinued brand from the late 80's and early 90's. I recognized it because Sarah used to wear it....The elevator stopped again at the 6th floor, the door opened....and again, no one was outside...The door was closed and by the time it reached my 8th floor, the scent was completely gone from the elevator.....All my life, I've always been a strong skeptic about all "these phonomenom things"....Not quite sure what to think but I retrieved my file, took the elevator back down w/ no incidents and drove home......

    It's been a very long and stressful week on the work front. Perhaps, I was just a bit too tired and halucinate... or there is a simple and logical explaination for it....but for the first time in my life, when I am aline, I truly felt I wasn't......alone.
     
  2. Z0RR0

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    You know it's the janitor Rosario and her sexy perfume!!! You caught her and her bad boy shaggin in the elevator, and she had to run to the roof not to get caught. LMAO!!

    Being a skeptic myself, I just say tomorrow, the elevator repair crew will answer your questions :D
     
  3. UroTrash

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    Certainly could have been real, we'll never know, but I will say olfactory hallucinations do happen. i think psychotic people are most likely to have auditory hallucinations, and neurologic disease more commonly presents with olfactory hallucinations. Wisual hallucinations are usually drug or substance related.

    This is not to imply you have neurologic disease by any means, remember it could be real. Often benign neurologic disease, even certain headaches are accompanied by olfactory hallucinations. then again, seizures and tumors sometimes present with a little prelude of olfactory sensation.


    You were prob just tired.







    Or it could be a meningioma...
     
  4. wax

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    Hit 5th floor button on the way up tomorrow.
    Get out of elevator on 5th floor.
    Act, nay - BE mysterious.
    Take next elevator to go 8th floor.
     
  5. BigTex

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    My ex was given a gift of a fragerance the day our daughter died in the hospital, by one of her relatives. A well meaning gesture.

    I did not know it, and every time I would smell it, it brought back strong emotions of that day.

    I finally realized it was a perfume she was occaisionally wearing, and told her to knock it off!

    My vote goes to the housekeeping staff, but of course the idea of a foxy call girl answering "a call" make much better daydreams.
     
  6. UroTrash

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    Odors do seem to affect people at a primal level. the first cranial nerve (the olfactory nerve) is not actually a nerve at all, but rather an extention of the brain.
     
  7. BigTex

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    I kept thinking it was a hospital product I was smelling, and trying to figure out how it followed me home!! LOL!
     
  8. Stackhouse

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    OK Tom just tell us the REAL story.
    I think it was more like this...
    Out late,
    came home late,
    wife wanted to know where you've been,
    smelled the perfume,
    sent you packing,
    wife wouldnt take your calls,
    so you loged on to F-chat and posted this explanation hoping she would read it... ,
    so the 1mil question is...Is it true? Inquiring minds want to know.

    Welcome to the DOG HOUSE. ;) LOL

    PD
     
  9. Tomf-1

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    PD---Great deductive reasoning. I will make use of it someday but...wife kicked me out about a month ago. PD--- You must have missed the thread (ok...it was more like a cry for help!!lol).

    Going back to the topic of my horrifying ordeal....Ya know, all of you guys are just cold, man!!!! Here I am suffering post tramatic stress and crying out for help and support from my F-chat friends and these are what I got.

    So far you all came up with "Tom under the influence of drug/substance; Tom suffers olfactory hallucinations, Tom is psychotic, Tom has cranial nerves (some sort of brain damage..lol); My favorite from PD... Tom was doing the housekeeper who wore the perfume and lastly Tom wears woman's perfume (ok..nobody brought this up...yet but I wanted to head it off).....

    See if next time I share these intimate and sensitive stories to you guys again.....
     
  10. BigTex

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    Don't forget Doc Striblings "seizures and tumors"! LOL
    I don't feel well, I think I'll lie down.

    You haven't gotten the wife back YET???????

    Tip from my wife #1, who'd say: "You owe me flowers, an apology, and a precious stone."

    She had a pretty big box of loose gems when I finally went out the door, for good. Not in divorce inventory either, I might add.

    My new fine gf LOVES Ferraris, she wants to know if we can take the LONG way home. ;)
     
  11. wax

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    Did you hit the 5th floor button on the way up today?
     
  12. Tomf-1

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    Thanks for asking Alan but No, I haven't. Actually, things have gotten a bit more complicated (unintended, of course).

    I temporarily moved in to a friend's crib. Well...I'm starting to like it alot and..kindda...sorta don't want to move out!!! I guess all the lessons from you and your #1 have finally sunk in.
     
  13. Tomf-1

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    No way, man.....

    I am working from home from this point forward until you guys come up w/ a better solution than I am fu**ed in the head !!!! lol.
     
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    Not necessarily "in the head". You could have a big Renal Cell Carcinoma with a paraneoplastic syndrome. :)
     
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    Tom, I wasn’t aware of your situation with your wife. Sorry to hear that.

    On a lighter note: Given the new information you provided. I will deduce that “Someone” is keeping a close eye on you… Ever see Fatal Attraction? You don’t have any Bunnies missing at the office do you?

    PD
     
  16. BigTex

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    Man Doc, you are FULL of good news!

    Tom F1, get out your calculator, enter # of children, multiply by a large percent of your salary and multiply by number of years 'till they are eighteen.
    (one is eighteen, IIRC, so you're not too exposed there). Hit "total"

    Makes an F40 look cheap!

    I'll leave a light on in the dome tent, for ya!
    (Using Tom Bodett Motel 6 voice here......)
     
  17. BigTex

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    The bunny was at home...on the stove!

    That was one scary movie, man. I actually stayed out of trouble for awhile!
     
  18. BigTex

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    IIRC, this "friend" with the apartment is female???

    You're about to blow your hand off, juggling dynamite, man!
     
  19. Tomf-1

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    Dude.... That WAS scary !!!!! I know what you meant about staying out of trouble. I learned, man.

    After that movies, girls stopped serving me w/ "restraining orders" paper...LOL.
     
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    Sure it was...Sure it was... (Dramatic pause)...Hey Tom...Did you check the Cofee pot in the break room?

    PD
     
  21. Tomf-1

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    lol....
     
  22. normhuff

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    I experience similar strange occurrences and typically dismiss them. The latest one I can remember occurred last month when I was busy outside and thinking to myself that the garage door needed to go down. It is an automatic garage door, and sure enough, it started to go down. I live alone, so that puzzled me how that happened. I’m from a strong Catholic upbringing, and I only thought it was some kind of entity or spirit being helpful. I have no problem with that. We can get into all kinds of discussions of the afterlife, good and evil in the world, and all kinds of strange things that happen for which we have no explanation. One of the guys I work with is into astronomy, and he says some scientists believe there are at least a dozen dimensions out there in the universe. Maybe we’re all just living in one big Matrix with Morpheus and Neo ready to come to our rescue? Anyway I guess my point is that some things can never be explained, regardless of how much we as humans thing we know about everything…
     
  23. Tomf-1

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    James-- I will call you if my 360 ever refuses to start.....lol.
     
  24. UroTrash

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    OK, here's my strange story. When I lived in Galveston PX around 1985, my wife and I wejt to Houston and went in an electronics store ald we bought several packs of blank cassettes in sealed packs. Wjen we got home, i opened the first box and notiaed one of the tcpes was differelt. I opened it and noticed it had that little change in height of the layers of tape that you sae with a partially rewound tape* I put it in the tape player and it was a man rgciting what soulded like random words. Pretty sprange.

    Anywey I pulled it owt and put it on the shelf, not erasing it as I vhought it was kind of interesting.

    The next day, we come home from work and that tape is gone! The house is hocked, nothing glse is disturbeb, but the tape ms gone!!!


    Help me with thav one!
     
  25. Tomf-1

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    Clifford--- You are on your own w/ this one, bro....That's fricky, dude.
     

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