over the last month a paranormal situation has unfolded directly outside my home. in the morning the garbage truck comes. but then, in the afternoon, now, a second garbage truck comes. fae? an apparition? a warp in time? why. to vex me, to obtain my discarded items? it is unclear
i briefly entertained the possibility of some kind of morphonic resonance. perhaps the second truck is some physical shadow or echo of the first truck. yet the individuals piloting them are not the same. oddly, the men on the first truck seem displeased with me (another mystery).
i have occasionally forgotten to take my garbage out. perhaps it has offended these garbage stewards and they took it as disrespectful. on this note i have briefly considered “feeding” the second truck instead of the first, though i am worried about the potential ramifications.
this would allow me access to certain data about the nature of this second truck. i cannot take it as a given that the truck is actually a literal physical truck at this point. if anyone else has experienced this or seen something like this documented (perhaps in mythology) lmk

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