Luv2Roam
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Three strange things have happened at work. We do work in a secured building and area. Badges are necessary to enter into the building and through various doors throughout the complex of three buildings (three floors each).
The first one happened sometime this summer.
I was standing at someone's desk in my work area. That person has a remote control boom box (CD player, etc).
She was sitting, I was standing (next to the boom box). The boom box started playing.
I asked her if she turned it on. She said No.
I asked her if it was on a timer. She replied No.
I asked how/why it was on. She didn't know. She just said it sometimes happens.
I asked her if she was sure it was not on a timer and she didn't know it.
She said, no. Sometimes it just goes on and sometimes it's even on when she arrives in the morning.
She is one the first, if not the first person in to work in the mornings, generally. She sits back in a corner, her boom box is underneath a shelf and she keeps the volume low.
Okay ---- Odd, but I figured she must have it on a timer and doesn't realize it.
Then, around a month ago --
A co-worker's (same floor, but across the building) father died after an extended illness. No surprise. A few went to the funeral. I didn't.
When the others returned, they were talking about the funeral.
Afterwards I went to the breakroom and was heating up lunch in the microwave. I was thinking about the funeral and my father's funeral, etc.
The coffee machine behind me started -- by itself.
No cup dropped down, but the coffee and condiments are pouring down.
Had I been thinking, I would have stuck a cup underneath.
Okay -- that's odd too. I've never known that to happen, but anything is possible.
We moved from the first floor of this building to the second just a few weeks ago.
TODAY, I was going down a hall to a stairs that leads to the first floor/break room area.
As I was reaching for the door handle it sounds just as if someone is trying to enter a locked door.
I'm thinking -- oh someone has their hands full and is having trouble opening the door, or they tried to open the door before the card reader beeped, etc.
So I wait a few seconds before I open the door, thinking I will startle them.
I waited about three seconds, opened the door (that swings towards the outside, not in). No one is there.
I look up the stairwell. No one.
I look down the stairs. No one.
And no noise of anyone using the stairs or coming or going through any other door. Even if someone could have moved that fast, I would have heard a door shut, card reader -- something.
The doors don't have knob handles. They have the lever handles that push down. And I noticed that door is one of the few with no card reader. (Not used very often.)
So how weird is all this?
I spoke to a few others, just to see if I was the only one noticing odd stuff. One commented she did have a few odd things happen, but she just shrugs them off.
I guess it doesn't matter. It's just one of things that makes you go. "Hhmmmmmm"
Thoughts?
The first one happened sometime this summer.
I was standing at someone's desk in my work area. That person has a remote control boom box (CD player, etc).
She was sitting, I was standing (next to the boom box). The boom box started playing.
I asked her if she turned it on. She said No.
I asked her if it was on a timer. She replied No.
I asked how/why it was on. She didn't know. She just said it sometimes happens.
I asked her if she was sure it was not on a timer and she didn't know it.
She said, no. Sometimes it just goes on and sometimes it's even on when she arrives in the morning.
She is one the first, if not the first person in to work in the mornings, generally. She sits back in a corner, her boom box is underneath a shelf and she keeps the volume low.
Okay ---- Odd, but I figured she must have it on a timer and doesn't realize it.
Then, around a month ago --
A co-worker's (same floor, but across the building) father died after an extended illness. No surprise. A few went to the funeral. I didn't.
When the others returned, they were talking about the funeral.
Afterwards I went to the breakroom and was heating up lunch in the microwave. I was thinking about the funeral and my father's funeral, etc.
The coffee machine behind me started -- by itself.
No cup dropped down, but the coffee and condiments are pouring down.
Had I been thinking, I would have stuck a cup underneath.
Okay -- that's odd too. I've never known that to happen, but anything is possible.
We moved from the first floor of this building to the second just a few weeks ago.
TODAY, I was going down a hall to a stairs that leads to the first floor/break room area.
As I was reaching for the door handle it sounds just as if someone is trying to enter a locked door.
I'm thinking -- oh someone has their hands full and is having trouble opening the door, or they tried to open the door before the card reader beeped, etc.
So I wait a few seconds before I open the door, thinking I will startle them.
I waited about three seconds, opened the door (that swings towards the outside, not in). No one is there.
I look up the stairwell. No one.
I look down the stairs. No one.
And no noise of anyone using the stairs or coming or going through any other door. Even if someone could have moved that fast, I would have heard a door shut, card reader -- something.
The doors don't have knob handles. They have the lever handles that push down. And I noticed that door is one of the few with no card reader. (Not used very often.)
So how weird is all this?
I spoke to a few others, just to see if I was the only one noticing odd stuff. One commented she did have a few odd things happen, but she just shrugs them off.
I guess it doesn't matter. It's just one of things that makes you go. "Hhmmmmmm"
Thoughts?
I think it would be interesting to find out the history of the land where the building was built!!! 
