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Today, while vacuuming the latest crop of dog hair tumbleweeds and errant pistachio shells, I kept hearing someone following me. I was alone in the house, except for the dog... and it wasn't the dog. The dog hates the vacuum and once it was started, headed for the landing...
I'd vacuum, using our less than stellar canister vacuum (A former Hoover fan, they pissed me off after this purchase...). At one point, I noticed a following sound behind me... sounding almost like a sheepish dog, but no, the dog was still cowering on the landing.
I continued vacuuming... only to hear that "following" sound again!
My mind raced. Our house is not that old and does not have a tormented history! What was following me as I vacuumed!??!! I did it some more, inching forward, removing more grit and hair.
WHERE WAS THAT SOUND COMING FROM!??!!!@@!!???
WHO WAS FOLLOWING ME?!?!?
As a friend's mother would say... "Oh. Fer. Cry."
It was the vacuum...
Do you have dreams about the vacuum, Jennifer?
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Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | February 16, 2009 at 06:44 AM
You have reason to be afraid.
Posted by: fish | February 16, 2009 at 07:54 AM
ittdgy- my dreams were vacuum-free.
Thanks to fish, they won't be tonight...
Posted by: Jennifer | February 16, 2009 at 08:14 AM
just like most ghost movies, I had this one figured out by the time it was halfway done...
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 16, 2009 at 09:48 AM
But I always read to the end anyway....
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 16, 2009 at 09:48 AM
I always read to the end of the movie too.
Posted by: fish | February 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Pardon me, but would you have any
Grey Poupon™stainless steel sinks?~
Posted by: Ghost Melon™³²®© | February 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM
I always read to the end of the movie too.
verb/object agreement is over-rated....
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM
it's only natural to abhor a vacuum.
Posted by: mdh | February 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Never a dull moment in the Jennifer household.
Posted by: Dan Leo | February 16, 2009 at 01:46 PM
So Jennifer is Mother Nature?
Besides, isn't Ghost Vacuum a Stephen King movie starring Matt Frewer and emilio Estevez?
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 16, 2009 at 03:35 PM
ZRM stole my Emilio Estevez comment!!!
Posted by: Kathleen in Oakland | February 16, 2009 at 03:36 PM
I laughed especially because I had a similar experience yesterday.
We have a white noise machine in Libby's room. I was giving her a bottle in her room in the morning, and kept hearing this really odd noise. It sounded like a human voice, and it would repeat every few seconds, in exactly the same pattern. I didn't seem to be the noise machine, and the pattern was so regular that I didn't think it was coming from someone talking. My logical brain dismissed it as something electrical, but my Paranormal State brain wanted to grab a tape recorder and see if it was a message...from beyond the grave!
Then I realized I didn't have a tape recorder anymore and therefore could not properly conduct my paranormal investigation. When I returned later to the room, the sound was gone, and mocking laughter from my wife when I relayed the story to her further dampened my ghostbusting.
Posted by: Brando | February 16, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Kathleen is slowed by her passenger....
"damp ghostbusting..." ewww. plus, Brando, your blog gave me 'sperm' as a verification word today. I think it's broken. Or fixed, maybe.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 16, 2009 at 04:31 PM
lol at all of you.
Brando- heaven help us if you and I are ever caught alone in a haunted house. I normally think having another person around allows me to act normally and not be scared, but I have a feeling we'd be like the Keystone Cops.
ZRM- give back Kathleen's comment... there's no stealing comments from expectant mothers allowed on this blog. But wash it first...
Posted by: Jennifer | February 16, 2009 at 07:35 PM
I'll let K have the Matt Frewer.
But I eated Emilio's brains....
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 16, 2009 at 09:18 PM
Brando, your blog gave me 'sperm' as a verification word today. I think it's broken. Or fixed, maybe.
If it gave you sperm, it definitely hasn't been fixed. HEY OHH!!!
Jennifer, we are the ideal hosts for a Ghost Hunters-type of show. Every bump and knock would turn into the Blair Witch Project.
Posted by: Brando | February 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I can't believe we missed that one...
fixed... bwahaha.
Posted by: Jennifer | February 17, 2009 at 01:42 PM
you know, I TRY to leave you kids all these tasty tasty straight lines....
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | February 17, 2009 at 02:21 PM
my imagining of Brando and Jennifer tripping around a haunted house accidentally scaring each other ("did you hear that?!" "What, that?" "no, that!" "you mean that, when I said 'what?'") (J's cell phone vibrates, "IT'S COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR PURSE!!") is so precious and hilarious. I will always treasure it.
Posted by: Kathleen | February 17, 2009 at 04:55 PM
Which one is Shaggy and which one is Scooby?
Posted by: fish | February 19, 2009 at 08:47 AM