`Sysiphuslove` [Thread]

I had a 200-lb, square, solid dresser tip over and *CRASH* to the floor
at 3 AM, while I was right next to it.

I was lying in bed with the laptop less than two feet away, and saw
something move out of the corner of my eye. I looked up, and past the
glare of the LCD I could see the shadowed corner of this huge-ass
dresser tipping up, and it was so impossible that I just sat there
staring blankly at it, thinking (if I thought at all) 'I'm not really
seeing that. That isn't real'.

Time seemed to slow to a crawl as this huge heavy dresser, silhouetted
in the hallway light, teetered up on its two front legs, leaned past the
center of gravity, swayed out and then landed with the most terrific
crash. It shook the whole apartment. (I bet the neighbors were pleased.)

It scared me into a state of catatonia. I just sat there as my boyfriend
raced into the room, asking me what had happened, and I couldn't move or
speak. I just looked at him, then turned over in bed and sort of went to
sleep from fear, something I haven't done since childhood.

There was no explanation for that. Two people had to work together to
move it anywhere, and I was sitting *right the fuck there* and watched
it tip out and over. It was against an outside wall in a second-floor
apartment. That thing moved by itself. Nothing else could possibly have
moved it short of an earthquake, and there wasn't one.

In that same apartment, we had a container of coffee fall off the
microwave with no one in the room, just tipped out and there was coffee
in a fan across the floor. That one's harder to call 'unexplained'
because no one was there and I guess it could have been natural. But
that dresser? No way. That was strange.

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