FAMILY HISTORY
We don't have a story about the clock that stopped. The famous song was about a true event. I've always thought there must be a logical explanation. The clock needs winding every day. When the owner died the clock stops. Or thousands of clocks stop after a death because everybody else is too busy to wind the clock. But one family in a million has a clock which stops when a person dies. Remember the old joke about the stopped clock which is always right once a day? If the clock stops with ten minutes of the death, or even the same hour, people are likely to remark. So, in any house, or any street, or any city, or any year, there's a one in twelve chance the clock will stop on the hour when somebody dies.
However, we have a story about the lights went out.
Trevor recalls the death of his mother's father, Bob. When Trevor's parents were at work Bob's job was to peel the potatoes and turn on the lights to do so and be ready for his daughter and son-in-law to return home. When they returned and saw all the house lights were off they knew he had died. This time the story is more logical, but in some ways equally visual, memorable, and chilling
We don't have a story about the clock that stopped. The famous song was about a true event. I've always thought there must be a logical explanation. The clock needs winding every day. When the owner died the clock stops. Or thousands of clocks stop after a death because everybody else is too busy to wind the clock. But one family in a million has a clock which stops when a person dies. Remember the old joke about the stopped clock which is always right once a day? If the clock stops with ten minutes of the death, or even the same hour, people are likely to remark. So, in any house, or any street, or any city, or any year, there's a one in twelve chance the clock will stop on the hour when somebody dies.
However, we have a story about the lights went out.
Trevor recalls the death of his mother's father, Bob. When Trevor's parents were at work Bob's job was to peel the potatoes and turn on the lights to do so and be ready for his daughter and son-in-law to return home. When they returned and saw all the house lights were off they knew he had died. This time the story is more logical, but in some ways equally visual, memorable, and chilling
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