The chair was caught in a narrow space between my table and
the wall. I can’t turn the chair around properly. I was reaching for my laptop
bag, which was resting on the floor against the wall. I had to raise my left hand over my
head while I twisted around, reaching with my right hand for a bag that was on my
left. It was very awkward. I felt the ball pen I was holding gently pull away from my hand. I am very sure that I felt it pull away from my grip. I
thought maybe it fell off, although I didn’t hear a thud or any noise of
something falling. I looked everywhere, but it was nowhere to be found. Just when I thought I was left holding the cover (of the pen), it vanished from the table where I had placed it. I was alone in my clinic: the time was 10:43 pm, January 13, 2014.
Although I am no stranger to the strange, it has been getting more frequent in the last few months. On October 31, 2013, a day before I left for my vacation, something fell off my old Sony Video shoulder bag. It
was a card reader adapter about 1x1 inch that you usually get with your new
gadgets. I knew for sure that I had that in my laptop bag, and it is not the kind of object that can easily fall out of a bag’s ciphered side pocket anyway.
I picked it up and put it back where I thought it fell off. I felt something in
the side pocket while I was putting the adapter inside. It is the minor key
that I have been looking for much of the last two weeks, because without it, I
will travel with my big suitcase unlocked through 3 international airports. Strange;
I was absolutely sure that I had looked in that side pocket many times over.
One day in December 2013, Nishreen was preparing for
school. We couldn't find one of her pairs of shoes. Four of us searched
everywhere, and when her school bus came, she was forced to wear an old pair.
After she left, I found the shoe in the middle of the house terrace. All of us
have looked there. It was very close to where I had wheeled Nishreen’s bag for
the school bus aide to take. If it had been sitting there while we were looking,
none of us could miss it.
NK
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