I Pepper Ghosted Myself!
 

blueerica has already heard this story because I was IMing her at the time but here goes:

Last night, I was on my laptop IMing and I heard a noise outside near my front window. My living room was pretty dark, but there was a light in a corner next to the window shining on me. So I went to my window, which has vertical blinds, and opened the blinds. And there staring at me, floating about the hedges in the area outside my apartment was a floating ghost. I jumped. A half second later, I realized it was me staring at me.

lol! Hysterical.
:D

Dork. :)

What a dork! HAHAHA!

(Not laughing at you, just your reflection!)

*snort* that's great! :)

DORK!! :D

:cheers:

yeah....gonna have to go with 'dork' on this one as well.

nothin' personal
;)

I have many tales to top the 'dorkiness' of that - consider yourself a dork amongst many other dorks...

What Matt said.

I was making chicken noodle soup. So when it was done I took the pot and poured the contents into a strainer. Bye bye soup.

Or how about the time when I was making mac and cheese. And drained everything... right down the drain.

... to which I will add "fraidy cat."











(not to be confused with one of Lisa's pets)

I'm a pepper ghoster, too! But I already told you my story, GC.

(Let's just say late-nite Unsolved Mysteries when you're 12 doesn't help when you're passing the sliding glass door...)

I've also done this:
Had a glass of water in my left hand, someone asked me what time it was and I dumped the glass of water into my own lap.
:D

Here's another bad one:
I have a Big Gulp in my hand. Without looking at my drink, I decide to take a sip of my drink. My mouth searches and searches for a straw and I forgot that I didn't put one in.
Very embarassing.
:D

GD.. I've done the water thing before... Most of my stories involve falling over because I'm so clumsy.

Last week, at work, I was talking to some co-workers. We were all doing our own thing when... I fell off my rolling chair. I went straight down, but my arse managed to push the chair away. That's all my co-workers saw... the chair rolling away and no me to be seen.

A couple days ago when I got into work, I went to disarm the alarm.. and failed. It was loud and I couldn't get it to stop. It finally stopped when my boss showed up and canceled it (using the stop code that I tried to use)

I have zillions but from just this weekend. Walking over to the 5K start trying to get the girls awake and excited. I turn around so I'm waking backwards and immediately back into a bench which hits me right behind the knees causing me to fall backward flat onto the bench. But it was quite graceful.

I fell once onstage. During a speech for classroom president in grade school. I think I won because everyone laughed at me falling. :D

Once during a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof", I totally blanked on the lyrics to my solo song. "Miracle of Miracles" just went right out of my head. The orchestra leader clued me in. I was mortified but it worked with the bumbling character (Motel the Tailor) that I was playing... I still get an adrenaline rush when I think about that flub. :blush:

I have always been the very model of grace and decorum.

Ooo!! Oooo!! **raises hand in GC's defense** I know!!

GC was freaking out because his house is haunted....don't you have to haunted toilet?

But have you ever HatBoxGhosted yourself?

Heehee, can't mojo you. :)

Years ago there was a work-related dinner at this restaurant on a boat that used to be in Newport Beach (the Princess Louise?). The banquet room was at the bottom of the stairs. The boat shifted a little in the water as I walked down the stairs and I made my grand entrance by falling into the room.

One of my clients has a 6 foot tall painted statue of an Indian Chief in their entryway. EVERY time I open the door, I get a start. I will never get used to him being there.

I jumped thinking there was a bug crawling across my couch. I was sitting legs straight out and laptop on lap. Turns out it wasn't a bug, but my toe wiggling over the top of the screen. :rolleyes:

when I lived with The Old People, it was out in the middle of no where. I was watching Arachniphobia...in the dark. It was at the point where the spiders were jumping out of everywhere. Something crawled across the back of my arm. I don't think I have ever screamed that loud while watching a movie.

I got to witness this one :D Madzer wouldn't walk anywhere close to her after the fall. Nothing more embarassing to a tweener than mom doing prat falls in public.

Of course, none of us warned her that she was about to fall over backwards because we couldn't believe she didn't see the HUGE stone bench that had been right in front of her eyes.

But, that's why we love katiesue. She always makes us look good :evil:

Once, I went to take a drink of soda and forgot I had a straw in it and stuck it up my nose. At least I was alone.....

I've done the same thing at the window, truth be told.

Why is it called Pepper Ghost?

I love the internet: Pepper's ghost

Okay, so have any of you ever been snorkeling, and tried to pet a fish?
... I still have the scar to prove it.


One time, when I was leaving work (at McCarran Airport in Vegas), I was driving up Tropicana (goes across the end of the runway in a very darkish stretch). Anyway, my a/c didn't work in that car, so I always drove around with the driver (runway) side window open. I hear this sound coming at me, and it sounded for all the world like a Mac truck trying to run me down. I couldn't see a thing in my rear view, but I could hear it coming closer, and at one point it sounded practically on top of me - so much so that I actually swerved!

... And it was about then that the Cessna finally passed over me and into view on the runway.

One time, in band camp...

Wow! What a story! I can't believe you lived in Vegas with out air conditioning in your car!!:eek:

Oh, I knew I had heard it before! From The Haunted Mansion! Thanks!

I experienced something similar once driving on Lakewood Blvd which runs underneath the runway of the Long Beach Airport. I was convinced the loud noise I heard was my car's engine about to explode or something. Then I drove out of the tunnel and saw the plane taking off above me.

The summer I turned 13, I was eating spaghetti on an airplane. I turned away for a moment to talk to my sister, and when I looked back, something was pushing up through the center of my bowl. I panicked (nowhere to run) before I realized that it was the fork that I had left deep in the pasta.

"Blunder of blunders,
Ridicule of ridicules,
God took a Cricket by the hand,
Blanked out his mind then
ridicules of ridicules
helped by leader of the band"

LOL!
:D