The Headphone Magic Trick
I had a real life magic trick happen to me today... It was pretty neat! I'll call it the "Re-Appearing Bose Earbud Trick". It will lose a lot in the retelling... but here goes.
The trick began last night when one of the rubber earbud caps came off my Bose headphones and disappeared. Poof! I knew it was lost in my car or at the motorcycle shop, I realized it was missing the moment I walked into my house last night. I looked everywhere for it this morning but it was clearly totally gone, never to be seen again. This afternoon I went to my desk drawer to fetch a replacement. The headphones ship with 3 pairs of rubber caps, one set for each of small, medium, and large. Since I had been using the large set, I expected to need to replace the missing one with a medium one. But no! The medium ones were there, the small ones were there, and there was one large one there, just like the one I was missing! It was as though the ear bud cap had been removed from me yesterday by magic and secretly snuck into my desk drawer by magic.
I'm still trying to figure out how this trick was done! I think I know, but I don't want to believe such a mundane explanation.
Truly this probably reads like a very boring story, it's too subtle... but I think interpreted by a good writer it could have been a sublime little story.
^Quinxy
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September 24th, 2010 - 00:42
Hi. I wandered over here from your Meetup site and found this story. It has a certain resonance with me because I had a similar experience.I sometimes watch TV at night with the headphones on. That way, it doesn’t disturb the wife or kid. One night, I lost one of the earbud caps. I looked everywhere for it. I did both a complete visual search and a complete tactile search of the living room rug. Nothing!A couple of days later, I looked down at the living room rug, and there it was! Right in front of the TV where I had been sitting. I believe my wife had even vacuumed at some point.Since I don’t believe in magic, I can only conclude that a small worm hole in my living room caused the earbud piece to slip two days into the future.