I hadn't even been born...
My mum swears this is true and my mum really isn't the type to embellish or imagine, however,i'm not wholly convinced but anywho as i said i wasn't even born.

*Flashback to 1986*

When my older sister was only a wee one, my family lived on a normal housing estate in maidstone, Kent. However, my dad could only find work in bristol (where we eventually moved after i was born). This meant that dear old dad was away for the week and only came home at the weekend, leaving my mum and my sister at home alone.

Everything was fine, except for anytime my dad left the house on a sunday night a lightbulb would blow. Now my lovely mother just put it down to coincidence being the sensible thing that she is.

However, after a few months of light bulbs exploding. My mum has put my sister to bed, sid good bye to dad and is watching tv. At about elevenish, she hears a thump from upstairs. Thinking its my sister having got out of her cot, mum hurries out to the landing. She looks upstairs to the landing, which is completely dark, despite my mum being sure she left the light on. She goes to switch the light on and nothing happens.
She just assumes there has been another bulb blowing incident, so she goes to get a torch. Heading upstairs, she find the bulb lying on the bookshelf at the top of the stairs. Having seemigly been unscrewed and placed there. My mums response was to assume that the bulb hadn't been fitted in the socket properly and had fallen.

However, it wa only after she went to bed that she realised that it was unlikely that the bulb could have fallen under its own accord and it was a screw bulb and had been in hat socket for as long as she could rememeber.
Also the book shelf was the other end of the hallway to the light socket and she had herad the thump of the bulb hitting the floor, indicating that the bulb had fallen and then been moved.

She put this down to either my sisters psychic energy missing my dad, or a very concientious burgler who tidies up after himself and doesn't steal anything.
(minsh, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 17:21, Reply)