For this story I need to start off with an incident that occurred last year.

One evening when I was visiting my parents I pressed the doorbell as usual and it played a completely different melody to usual.  My Dad opened the door and we commented on it and he tried it out a few times but it had reverted back to it’s usual sound.  Everyone else claimed we were hearing things and it never did it again until this morning…  When I pressed the bell it took me by surprise by playing that same unusual melody.  My Mum opened the door and said I don’t know why it did that!  Things that make you go hmm…

The other unusual incident this week was the case of the missing shoe.  Whilst on our travels sorting out bank details and various other legal bits and bobs Mum spotted a pair of shoes she liked.  The only problem was, there was only one shoe, the other was missing.  A shop assistant took her details and put it to one side and said that if they found the other one they would call her.

There had been no phone call and whilst we were walking through the store today she spotted that the shoe had been put back out onto the rack with her name and phone details still in it!!!  She went to customer services to order a pair and the lady who served her said ‘I am sure I have seen one of those shoes on it’s own somewhere’.  She went routing through some boxes behind the customer ordering point and there it was…

Looking Seaward

22 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2010

22 Responses to “The Doorbell & the Shoe”

  1. jameshigham says:

    The doorbell was the strange one. Hmmmmm.

  2. Ginnie says:

    Awwww. The things we remember that make our day! I LOVE the daisies at the bottom!

  3. jameshigham says:

    Best i don’t say openly.

  4. -eve- says:

    heheh. I enjoyed those stories. Intriguing… ;-)

  5. sally says:

    life can be so strange at times :-)

  6. Bernard says:

    If I take the back off my doorbell, there is a little slider for you to select one of six ‘tunes’. It may be that due to vibration (a door blowing shut) that the slider is not positioned completely in line with the selected tune. Just guessing.
    And on the subject of front doors :-
    I’ve just read that the man who invented doorknockers had won the Nobel Prize!
    (no bell). :o

    • CherryPie says:

      I think you can take the back off this one although it reverted to it’s usual ring straight away.

      As to the no bell :o

  7. Chrissy says:

    I do think there are many strange things in life.
    Some people will clearly provide the pragmatic solutions, I am more inclined to go with spiritual ones but then I have always experienced deja vu and odd things in my life.

    • CherryPie says:

      I have had lots of odd things happen to me too some of them can be explained away as a co-incidence but not all of them. In some cases there is something more than meets the eye going on.

  8. Trubes says:

    That definitely was a Hmm…, moment, Cherie, It can’t be a deja vu moment as your Mum heard it too. I’m inclined to go with Chrissy on this….A spirital moment indeed!

    di.xx

  9. Claudia says:

    Those events were all a bit mysterious, and difficult to explain. But your lovely field of daisies, on the water shore, restores tranquility and inner peace in my mind. Your creative photos are always such assets to your texts, CherryPie. Thank you!

  10. Ellee says:

    Yes, it sounds like a deja vu moment to me too.

  11. liz says:

    Strange happenings …

    Lovely photo though.