I'm apparently not very observant

[Alidar Jarok]

So I realized why my room seemed brighter today. There used to be a building outside my window, now I can see straight across to the street and shops beyond. The thing is, I have no idea how long there's been an empty space outside my window. All I know is that it currently exists while, before, there was a large, at least three-story building.

So, can they tear down buildings like really quickly or am I just really, really unobservant?

 

[Trekker4747]

So I realized why my room seemed brighter today. There used to be a building outside my window, now I can see straight across to the street and shops beyond. The thing is, I have no idea how long there's been an empty space outside my window. All I know is that it currently exists while, before, there was a large, at least three-story building.

So, can they tear down buildings like really quickly or am I just really, really unobservant?

Well, they can blow up buildings pretty quick and a building that's too small to be blown up probably could be torn down pretty quick probably inside of a couple of days (depending on the type of building it is, I suppose. Most strip malls and office plazas these days are little more than four walls, a ceiling, some supports and then the "dummy walls" built inside to separate the various units.

So yeah, it's probable the building has been gone for as little as a few days, but I'd suspect it'd be a lot longer than that for them to haul away all of the equipment and debris.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I blame the Matrix having a bug somewhere.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Once while catching the bus to I went past an old, rundown, empty house. I thought to myself "When are they going to do something about that eyesore?" When catching the bus back about 7 hours later the house was completely gone.

It took my son more than two weeks to notice that the house was gone and he went by on the bus twice a day, 5 days a week.

 

[TheBrew]

I think that they are building a Trader Joes there.

 

[sojourner]

You've slipped realities. Up is now down. Black is now white. Dogs are now cats.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think that they are building a Trader Joes there.

Seriously? That's awesome.

But how long has that building been gone. I'd like to think I would have at least noticed a giant open space before today.

 

[Brolan]

You have travelled through time and are now in the past. Buy stock in these companies depending on era: IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, Amazon, Tazer, Google

 

[Capn Flukie]

That's what Walternate wants you to think.

 

[Trekker4747]

You've slipped realities. Up is now down. Black is now white. Dogs are now cats.

Quick! Spin your top!

 

[SG-17]

You've slipped realities. Up is now down. Black is now white. Dogs are now cats.

I love reading conspiracy theories and fringe science just for the "Freak Show Carnival" type appeal to them, and I've heard one like that.

It goes that human consciousness exists outside of time and space and can shift realities at random intervals and since most universes would only have very small and insignificant differences you wouldn't notice a thing. However sometimes people get shifted into realities with more noticeable differences.

Of course this is just an (amusing) excuse for a poor memory.

 

[sojourner]

^Back in the 80's I had an experience that freaked me out. Was driving home late one night and listening to the radio. The song "Jacob's Ladder" is playing and I start to notice that Huey Lewis didn't sound quite right. Song ends and the announcer comes on, "and there's Bruce Hornsby with his latest song..", I swear I almost swerved off the road with a "WTF???" going through my mind. It didn't help that I had just read the Amber series by Zelazny which used fog as part of the effect of sliding dimensions. It was a very foggy night. Only later did I find out that Bruce and Huey had both done versions of the same song. At least in this universe.... I still wonder.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

My neighbour moved and her son packed up my 2 big plant pots that were outside when she left. It was only when she guiltily returned them a few days later that I realised they had been gone. I walked pass that spot for days and didn't observe that they were missing.

I would also be dreadful if asked by the police to describe someone ~ I never remember what somebody looked like. Apparently this is why most witness statements are wrong, people panic and make things up. I would probably end up describing the person opposite me

At least you've observed your lack of obversance AJ

 

[propita]

My parents once recriminated me when I was young for putting my hands on the walls and leaving them dirty over time. I denied it vehemently (“I NEVER do that!”). Uh ... I was denying it while leaning on my hand which was on the wall. Oops!

Not aware of a building or a pot? Hah! Oblivious to the contradiction between your words and your actions while speaking them? Priceless family story.

 

[FPAlpha]

Happens to me too each spring.. i'm outside and suddenly i go "Hell.. there's leaves on the trees! Winter is truly gone!"

 

[K'Ehleyr]

My parents once recriminated me when I was young for putting my hands on the walls and leaving them dirty over time. I denied it vehemently (“I NEVER do that!”). Uh ... I was denying it while leaning on my hand which was on the wall. Oops!

Not aware of a building or a pot? Hah! Oblivious to the contradiction between your words and your actions while speaking them? Priceless family story.

Even more priceless would have been to have hastily removed said hand and fell over

 

[Mary Ann]

I once had a 10-minute conversation with my friend's mother and never noticed that her leg was in a cast. In my defense I had taken my prescription sunglasses off and my eyesight is shite without corrective lenses, but even I should have noticed the blurry white thing on her leg.

I did my first year of university in Thunder Bay (north shore of Lake Superior) and froze my bits off all winter (I was a soft Torontonian). From my bus stop I could see the bridge over which the bus travelled and I would desperately watch for the bus all winter as I lost all feeling in my fingers and toes. I went home to Toronto in April and went back to Thunder Bay in July to empty out my student apartment. As I waited for the bus in the lovely summer weather I casually looked towards where the bridge was, only to find my view of the bridge blocked by a huge tree. I'd spent all winter staring through the naked branches of that tree for the bus and never noticed it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

So I realized why my room seemed brighter today. There used to be a building outside my window, now I can see straight across to the street and shops beyond. The thing is, I have no idea how long there's been an empty space outside my window. All I know is that it currently exists while, before, there was a large, at least three-story building.

So, can they tear down buildings like really quickly or am I just really, really unobservant?