Totally freaking out!
So I was taking a Sunday afternoon nap, and I slept a lot longer than I had intended. While I was sleeping, I had this awful dream, and I could seriously write a thriller suspense movie based off this dream. I thought the whole concept was pretty original. I want to tell about it, but what if somebody steals my idea? lol. But seriously, I am still shaken up over this dream I had. It all started like this......there was this guy, probably in his mid-twenties, and he was just an acquaintance really. His name was Jude and he was Steve's (Michael's brother-in-law) cousin. Jude had dark hair, but he had a super short hair-cut, almost shaved, and some kind of beard going. He couldn't have been any taller than me, and he wore a plain white t-shirt and camouflage cargo pants. We later found out that Jude had been in lots of trouble with the law in the past, but supposedly at this point in the dream, he had turned around to be a pretty good guy. So me and Michael were hanging out with Jude, riding around town in Michael's Firebird (which he no longer has). We pulled up to a gas pump to top off the tank, and Jude told us this strange story, more like an urban legend, about this dude who dialed some phone number on his cell phone, which in the long run, cost him his life because he ended up owing a lot of people a lot of money, just from making this phone call, and he couldn't pay up. Of course, I was laughing, and thinking it was freaky, but couldn't really happen. So I looked at Michael and dared him to call the number on his cell phone. So Michael went through with it and called it. This made us somewhat nervous, but I really didn't give it much thought afterwards. We finished getting gas, and drove around town a little more. We drove over to Walmart, driving in the parking lot across the front of the store, when Jude, who is riding in the backseat, apparently recognized someone he saw in the store. It was some old man, probably in his late 60's or early 70's, wearing navy blue dress pants and a melon colored dress shirt. He was kind of hunched over as he walked. Jude asked Michael to stop the car and was shouting "That's the guy! That's the guy!" We didn't really know what Jude was talking about, but Michael stopped the car and let him out at the Walmart entrance. So to kill time, we parked the car and walked around the store for a minute. Somehow we lost touch with Jude in the store, and as we were about to go back to the car and just leave Jude there, Michael's cell phone rang and on the line was a strange, mean-sounding male voice, threatening us. He said we weren't safe and that we had to put a stop to this. He said he knew Michael had made that phone call and that we better watch our backs. Throughout the rest of the day, the calls became more frequent and more threatening. And these calls were coming in not only on Michael's cell phone, but mine as well. If his phone wasn't ringing, mine was. Then we started getting hammered with threatening text messages, and there was even one text message from a lawyer, stating that we were being sued for lots of money. We ended up finding out that once you make this initial "phone call", it has a chain effect. Not only did we owe a certain amount of money, but the person that told about the phone call (who had already made the call themselves) would now owe money, and the person before that owed money plus what the person in front of him owed plus what you owe, and it went on down the line like that, to where say 10 generations back would owe like millions and millions of dollars. This meant that each "successor" in the chain would get sued for however much money every one before had been sued for. So anyway, it started getting late, and the phone calls never stopped, and we knew we were not safe anywhere because Jude could find us. Well Michael called Steve (remember? Steve is Michael's brother-in-law, and Jude is Steve's cousin) and Steve acted as if he was on our side, and he explained to us that Jude had been getting into trouble with the law again, and Michael said "Well, Steve, it looks like we should have got rid of that guy a long time ago, huh," to which Steve replied "Yeah." And then immediately upon hanging up with Steve, Jude called once more, threatening us and the entire family. He was screaming so loud over the phone that I could hear him from the passenger seat of the car. So trying to think of SOMEWHERE Jude might not find us, we went to my parents' house to spend the night. My parents had already been keeping the kids for us, so we ran into the house, hoping we hadn't been seen. It was pretty late, and my Dad was getting ready to go to bed, and I asked "Where are mom and the kids?" About that time, she and the kids came inside from the backyard, and she said they had been outside playing hide-and-go-seek, and I said "I don't think that was such a good idea," in fear of their safety. And then I started crying and I said "I think we need to call the police!" and my parents were like "Why?!?!" and then I started trying to explain everything to them, but I couldn't get it all out and none of it made any sense to them, and I looked at Michael and said, "All of this is all my fault, just because I dared you to make that stupid phone call! What are we going to do?!?!" and then I woke up. First of all, I am tempted to ask Steve if he really does have a cousin named Jude, lol. Secondly, who was the hunched-over old guy in Walmart? And thirdly, how DID that cell phone chain thing really work? Actually it was more of a text message chain when you think about it, but either way, what was generating this debt, and how did the person before, and so on and so on, know who was making the call each time? And lastly, did we ever get caught? I am not sure if I want to go back to sleep tonight to find out!!
In OTHER news, we went to the Memphis/UAB game last night and it was great. We never once let UAB have the lead in the game, and we came out with the win with only 6, yes 6, healthy players. Our team racked up 2 more injured players this past week. Ivan Lopez sprained his ankle, and Jeremy Hunt hurt his knee. Jeremy may be out the rest of the season. Just great! So next we play Southern Miss at home on Tuesday night, and we owe them guys after what happened the last time we played them at their place. Then we play at Louisville on Saturday, then TCU comes here, then we play our last regular season game of the year at Cincinatti. What's bad is that Louisville and Cincinatti are BOTH on THEIR Senior night. 19-4 for the season...not bad at all. And 10-2 in the conference. Definitely not bad, and we're in FIRST PLACE in the conference, too!!
