Your True Tales
November 2006 - Page 16

Vanishing Cocktail
by Chuck

At the time of our marriage ten years ago, my wife was residing in a studio apartment, so I moved in with her. Our sharing this unit was to be for a couple of months at the most until we found something larger. Retiring for bed one evening, I prepared myself a vodka and tonic, which was placed on the night stand as I lay in bed reading. I became so engrossed in reading I had completely forgotten about my drink. The hour was late and since I was ready to go to sleep I moved the glass of vodka from the top of the night stand to a shelf underneath.

The next morning, I was first up and getting out of bed glanced over at the nightstand to take the glass into the kitchen, but to my shock realized the glass had disappeared. Immediately I woke my wife and inquired what she did with the glass. Of course, she had no idea that I had even placed a glass on the shelf in the nightstand the evening before.

I immediately conducted a complete and thorough search of our unit, which included, under the bed, all kitchen shelves, all closet shelves, to no avail.

Retiring for bed the following evening, I was still baffled by the mystery of the disappearing glass. The following morning as I was getting out of bed, my eyes casually glanced over at the night stand - and to my horror there was my glass from the previous night in the exact spot with the exact amount of liquid in it! I performed a taste test and to my amazement found that not even the tonic had gone flat.

Where had this glass, full of vodka and tonic, spent the previous 24 hours? Other weird things started happening, but that's another story. We moved out a short time later.

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