I had a motorcycle which I used a 8mm hex wrench to adjust the chain every month. One day I noticed it was gone from my tool kit locked in the tail of the motorcycle. After a long search I still could not find it. I assumed that I had left it on the swing arm of the motorcycle and it fell off on the road somewhere and it was gone forever.
My chain progressively went out of adjustment to the point where it was damaging the sprockets and the bike was unsafe to ride. I was volunteering for the USGS at the time at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and had a long commute every day. So one day I am leaving the HVO offices for the day, which are located at the rim of the Kilauea volcano caldera, and as I approached my motorcycle I was reminded of the dire need for a chain adjustment. I thought to myself "I wish I had that damn wrench" at that moment I was looking at my headlight and suddenly saw it. It was inside the headlight of my motorcycle. I could not believe it.
It took me 2 hours to disassemble my motorcycle to the point of removing the headlight and I even had to remove the light bulb to get the wrench out of the 2 inch diameter hole. The light bulb hole is the only way to get inside the glass headlight and I had never removed it before. Somehow that wrench spontaneously appeared in the water-tight headlight. Also there was some red dirt in there with it and the wrench showed signs of rust that it did not have before. The road leading out of my house is composed of red dirt.
This is the only thing that I have ever seen that I can classify as extraordinarily unlikely. I guess it is possible that someone did it to play a joke on me, but who would go through all that effort? I was new to Hawaii and didn't have any friends that would play jokes on me.
So what do you guys think? Some sort of divine intervention? Did I somehow tap the power of my mind to teleport the wrench? Was it Pele the goddess of Kilauea volcano helping me out? Or was it a personal message from "god" to tell me that anything is possible?
I am not religious or superstitious and I am skeptical of all things supernatural, but to this day it still perplexes me like nothing else.
My chain progressively went out of adjustment to the point where it was damaging the sprockets and the bike was unsafe to ride. I was volunteering for the USGS at the time at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and had a long commute every day. So one day I am leaving the HVO offices for the day, which are located at the rim of the Kilauea volcano caldera, and as I approached my motorcycle I was reminded of the dire need for a chain adjustment. I thought to myself "I wish I had that damn wrench" at that moment I was looking at my headlight and suddenly saw it. It was inside the headlight of my motorcycle. I could not believe it.
It took me 2 hours to disassemble my motorcycle to the point of removing the headlight and I even had to remove the light bulb to get the wrench out of the 2 inch diameter hole. The light bulb hole is the only way to get inside the glass headlight and I had never removed it before. Somehow that wrench spontaneously appeared in the water-tight headlight. Also there was some red dirt in there with it and the wrench showed signs of rust that it did not have before. The road leading out of my house is composed of red dirt.
This is the only thing that I have ever seen that I can classify as extraordinarily unlikely. I guess it is possible that someone did it to play a joke on me, but who would go through all that effort? I was new to Hawaii and didn't have any friends that would play jokes on me.
So what do you guys think? Some sort of divine intervention? Did I somehow tap the power of my mind to teleport the wrench? Was it Pele the goddess of Kilauea volcano helping me out? Or was it a personal message from "god" to tell me that anything is possible?
I am not religious or superstitious and I am skeptical of all things supernatural, but to this day it still perplexes me like nothing else.
