The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Garwaymoon on 2024-10-13 12:01:18.
Hello all, long time lurker and new poster on this thread. This is about my boots, which took themselves off for a walking tour and then came back.
About 2 years ago my husband and I went on a driving holiday around Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. We are interested in out-of-the-way sites and geology, and I’m interested in high strangeness and especially the Missing 411 cases.
On our way through Colorado we stopped off at a mom and pop store similar to a Tractor Supply, where my husband browsed happily in the sporting goods section and I wandered around till I found myself in the boots aisle. One pair jumped out to me, a low cut Ariat with American flags sewn into the leather. I treated myself to them.
Once home again they went into the section of my closet where boots live. I wore them a couple of times, put them back when I took them off, and so on. I’m pretty fussy about my footwear.
Last year around July 4th I went to grab them to wear at the local parade, and they were just not there. Thinking I’d left them somewhere, I checked our trucks, nothing; checked all the other house closets, nothing. Really frustrated I pulled everything out of my closet, looked in all the shoe boxes and all the containers. Nothing.
I gave up at that point but I never forgot and it always bugged the hell out of me. Where were they?
We recently went to visit friends in the South for a week and my girlfriend and I went to a big western store. I found another pair of boots I liked and, when I went to pay for them I told my friend and the lady at the desk a brief version of this story saying, 'you wait! I’ll buy these and the others will turn up!
We get home from the airport and it takes me a few days to get round to unpacking my suitcase. I open my closet to put the suitcase away… and my original flagged Ariats are standing, neatly paired up, in the center of the clear space where my suitcase usually stands.
No sensible explanation for this at all, except that my boots walked off, and then came back.
Edit: spelling