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From: Maggie in Visalia <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:31:04
To: 1Nail Tech list<[email protected]>
Subject: NailTech:: and it's haunted
I'm alone in a hotel room 200 miles from home waiting for the BF to get out of
his class on Mini-Cooper repair...can you tell I have nothing to do? Somehow
it's so much more interesting when we go out of town for MY continuing
education events!!!
So anyway... like I was saying, the new salon is in a really old bank building.
One weekend while we were down there painting I kept hearing the elevator
running. There are two elevators and the one that acts the weirdest is the
original one, the second elevator was added only a few years ago. The stupid
things "ding" as they pass each floor whether they stop or not. But the
elevators generally just hang out on the ground floor until someone pushes a
call button. But this particular Sunday afternoon, with only a handful of
people in the building at all, the one elevator just kept running up and down
all day; "ding, ding, ding..."
And I started joking about how old the building is and that it's probably
haunted. Then I got to talking with some of the other tenants who started
telling me that the original elevator acts up and does weird things. Mostly, it
tends to stop on the 5th floor (the top floor) no matter what floor was pushed.
So I decided that was even more evidence that the building is haunted.
Mind you... there are probably some electrical glitches in the one elevator
that may have something to do with updating it with a new car and new buttons
and such-- I'm not sure when they updated the car and added the new elevator
but it's less than 20 years old. The first time I ever went upstairs in this
building was in '89 and at that time it still had the original elevator--
complete with elevator attendant to open and close both sets of doors and push
the buttons for you.
I'm a total Ghosthunters geek and while the building may or may not be haunted
in any way, shape, or form... I just thought it'd make for fun stories to tell.
Then my phone line didn't work.
AT&T checked the line and assured me that my line was working-- up to the point
of entry. Which means that the line works up to the point where it enters the
building in the basement. Where AT&T ceases to be responsible for the line. So
I can either hire AT&T to come out and make my phone get a dial tone in the
actual suite, or I can hire an independent contractor-- which AT&T admits will
probably be much cheaper.
So I asked around, and the BF said he'd talk to the guy who does the phones and
computers for the shop where he works. (BF is a mechanic, btw) Sure enough, Tom
says he can do it.
Never mind that no one has gotten around to getting beyond this point yet. But
that's not my story. When the BF told me he had talked to Tom he said that Tom
said he was familiar with that building; he's done work there before and he
used to have his own offices there. So they were talking about what a cool old
building it is and Tom said, "Yeah, except it's !$%*ing haunted."
Turns out, they had a lot of instances where they'd be working after hours or
on weekends and hear footsteps in the hall and see shadows of people passing by
the glass doors when there weren't actually any people in the hallway. And one
of Tom's employee's was working late one night when he noticed the reflection
of a man standing behind him in the monitor of his computer, but there wasn't
anyone else in the room with him. I guess that guy just grabbed his keys and
left, didn't shut down the computer, didn't turn off the lights, nothing. Just
left and wouldn't come back till there were other people in the office.
So I was thinking, "COOL!" Then I started thinking about how often I work late
and leave after everyone else and now I'm thinking, "Great, this is probably
the most secure location I've ever worked and this'll be the place I'm afraid
to stay alone."
THEN I got to thinking that you know, a lot of people love a good ghost story.
Some people will be all over getting their nails done in a "haunted" building.
But some people are going to freak out if they hear any stories.
And then there's the tendency of some people to insist that they are half
psychic and if they never hear about a ghost story they'll just go on about
their business without so much as a case of the shivers-- but as soon as they
catch wind of ghosts they're going to go all "6th Sense" on me and insist they
can see dead people and start coming up with all kinds of "experiences."
*sigh*
I just wanted to share my stories...did I mention I'm bored?
Maggie Franklin: Attitudes Salon; Visalia, CA
"Visionary rebel dreamer; obviously way ahead of my time."
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