Alan Ackley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> David Brin mailed me the contact info
> for this mailing list group a few days 
> back,

Welcome to the list!

> I had a weird reality glitch reminiscent of the
> Matrix movie;
> 
> Last month I visited Westaff, a temp
> agency I used to work for, at 29th & 
> Valmont where they had been for a decade.
(snip)
> I went in there yesterday and they 
> weren't there, there was instead a
> construction company in that suite.   I 
> called Westaff on the phone later to
> find out where they had moved and they 
> said they had moved FIVE YEARS AGO!!!

(snip story of magical self-healing plastic bag)

> So, what do you think?  Local bubble?
> Another universe?  Matrix glitch?


Have you been out walking in the fog?  There
was a Larry Niven short story about how fog
can act as a boundary between universes
(allowing the main character to get rich by
"inventing" the stapler).

Did you find out how long the construction
company was in that suite?  Perhaps last
month the temp agency finally closed their
office, after having two offices open for
years.  Also, don't discount the possiblity
of other actors beside yourself.  Maybe your
roommate or someone changed the bag in your
pocket as a favor.  Is anyone else using the
bikes?  Was it the same bike?  You said there
were two.  Maybe you switched to the non-torn
bike without realizing it?  There's also the
possibility that you changed the bag yourself,
and then purged that memory.

-- Matt

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