Vision of Another Place and Time

[ThePaladin]

A few months ago, got in the truck with the spouse and saw something on the dashboard I'd never seen before: A dedicated 12V power outlet. We've had the truck for 4 years and I've always used the cigarette lighter-this is a 10 year old truck so it still has a cigarette lighter-when I needed to charge something because there was no outlet, like in my car. Asked the spouse if that has always been there. He said yes, why? Because, I tell him, it wasn't there yesterday. Being well familiar with my world of woo, he simply observed, Hunh. We then embarked on a discussion of jumping timelines, how most of the time the only way I know I've done so is the feeling of my gut dropping, like on one of those rides that takes you up in the air and then kind of free-falls you back down, but every once in a while there's something obvious, like a power outlet on the dash that wasn't there before.

Then he wondered if the Me that had been there before-because he fully remembered "Me"-jumped a timeline at the same time I came in because there weren't two of me. He also wondered what happened to the timeline I left and what were the odds of me running into myself. These were all questions I couldn't answer. I just ride the ride and hope for the best.

But every time I drive the truck, I check the dash to see if that power outlet is still there. So far, it is.