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Originally posted by zayonara
Looking back on the events after his passing is chilling: Let me recap this to the best of my recollection.
Tuesday (Fire at 1:50am but I have no idea until 12PM)
8:30AM
My dad knocks on my door, unusual, as I am getting ready to bring my son to school. He hands us two walki-talkies that I had bought for him 5 or 6 years ago. My son had asked for a set a few weeks ago, but my dad could not find them..until that morning.
8:40AM
I plug my cell phone into the car aux jack and decided to introduce my son to a new band, U2, on the way to school. He has never heard them...he's 5. We usually just listen to the radio or talk. He loves it.
9:00AM
On my way back home, I am listening to news radio. I hear about a house fire with no details and feel bad for the family.
12:00PM
My friend calls me to tell me that our friend and his family are gone, lost in the fire early that morning. Shock and grief ensues.
5:19PM
My son and I sitting at the computer, I am hiding my grief, and my watch beeps a strange repeating beeeeep----beeeeep-----beeeeeep-----beeeeeep, until I push a button. I take note, and tell my inquiring son that it beeped because....5:19? Puzzled, I go through the watch settings and find nothing.
8:38PM
A post on Facebook by someone indicating that he had been a big U2 fan. I did not know this, as most of our relation was through club planning and club events with him and his family for the past 5 years or so.
9:00PM
Check the club events schedule that was recently posted online, and discover that my deceased friend had scheduled a fun-run for the club on 5/19 but the planning was not complete.
Wednesday
7:51PM
Messaging my friend, who is also an officer in the car club, about all of the above (less the radios I got from my dad), and the fluorescent bulb on my desk pops and goes out at that moment.
Thursday
9:31AM
After dropping off my son, I get home and place a phone call to the oil company to sort out a bill. The call is mysteriously re-routed to a company called "QUEST DIAGNOSTICS". I check phone logs and the number I dialed is NOT the number that connected. In fact, underneath the oil bill, was a bill from Quest Diagnostics. Checking the numbers on the bills versus the number connected, results in no close matches. Is he asking "What Happened?" translation of Quest Diagnostics.
10:30AM
Call club president and we decide to make the first annual fun-run in honor of him and his family, every year. I take charge with the final planning of the event, and I now realize that my deceased friend, used to supply the walkie talkies for these events (see step 1)!!... revelation complete.
11:00AM
Talk to deceased friend for his assurance. Mysteries have not since occurred.
It is what it is....
Originally posted by zayonara
This Tuesday morning, my friend and most of his family tragically died in a fire. We were supposed to get together this Saturday, but I am attending the funeral instead. So yesterday, I am still in shock, and all of a sudden my digital watch lets out a series of long slow beeps. Unlike anything it has ever done. My young son asks what it was. I look at the watch and it says 5:19. The current time. I go through the watch functions and find no alarms set at all. It never beeps. I have had it over a year and never heard this beep. Even if I set the alarm, it beeps totally differently.
So, I move on. Today, I decided to check the club schedule. He was an events director for our local car club. The next event on the schedule, that he arranged for the club, is on 5/19.
Here I am tonight telling another club member about what just happened and all of a sudden POP, the lamp on my desk blows out. It's one of those long-life fluorescent bulbs that is only about a year old.
Communications or coincidence?
Originally posted by zayonara
Yeah could be, but the watch hasn't beeped since then (same battery), and the beep was a strange sounding beep. I will look for the manual of the watch to see if it even has a battery warning. Besides all that, whatever caused it to beep, was on the day my friend and his family passed, and it beeped at 5:19 which turned out to be the next event he had been planning for the club. He was a VERY organized man (with a degree to match), and he ALWAYS took charge. It wouldn't surprise me that he would attempt to tie up loose ends by any means possible.
Still, coincidence is always possible, and the mind does strange things in times of stress. But the facts are the facts and are open to interpretation, of course.