My Life Is Getting Increasingly, Progressively, Inexplicably Weird.

My life is getting increasingly, progressively, inexplicably weird.

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I was standing in the corridor in a group and laughed hard at a joke. I fly came buzzing from somewhere, precisely entered my mouth like a well-programmed missile and hit my throat. I, in a matter of one nano second, shifted from laughing to choking. I started coughing uncontrollably, my eyes watered and everyone around me made gasping noises and grabbed me as I collapsed. I recovered after a few moments, but I actually felt the fly slowly sliding down my oesophagus.

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I was sitting at 8.50PM on the benches lining the soccer ground on end point watching nobody play. The lights were on and the ground was more liquid than solid because of the monsoons. There were only flies and birds around. Some species of grey-colored small birds were squatting and hopping on the ground. Suddenly, some 10 of them took flight. It was an awesome sight; I opened my mouth to say


"Wo-"


THUD.


It took me two seconds to notice that one little birdie had simply hit thud against the ground. I looked up to see what it had hit against. Nothing. It had simply fallen down from the air and slammed the ground. I sat silently in the night mist and I felt a sickening knot in my stomach.

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I stood in the bathroom waiting for the steaming hot water to fill my bucket. 7.30 AM today morning. The view outside was brilliant. I came near the window, looked down on the uninhabited valley from the forth floor. I stood there for some long minutes. I had a long, heavy day to go. Standing there, looking at the white-green valley with the soothing background of water flowing into my bucket, I was at perfect peace with myself.

I only realised a black shape. A crow came and slammed against my window pane - 2 inches away from my face. It fell down. I silently screamed, my heart thumping. I got so scared, I physically ran back 5 steps. If I hadn't closed the glass pane, the crow would have hit my face.

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We had an awesome time on the Kaup (Kapu) Beach with the benign moonlight, imposing light house and shrieking girls. We spent an hour in the water, dropping any pretension of dryness.

We came back to Sai Parivar for dinner. I happened to look down on my feet in the parking lot. I thought I saw something abnormal. Then I thought my nail color was washed off from one of my toe nails. Then I realised that I did not have one toe nail. In place of a nail, there was just pink skin. I didn't feel anything. Not even a slight pain or bleeding. One whole big toe nail was gone. Vanished. Walked out of my life. Without making the slightest of noise.

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I actually guessed an answer right in the MBFM (Money, Banking and Financial Markets) class.