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Something totally bizarre happened tonight. My sister called and told us about her youngest grandson. It seems he has an invisible playmate. Now there is nothing alarming in that but he has an older brother who does not like to play with him, in fact he teases him and they fight a lot. So getting an invisible playmate seems logical.
The thing is that he says this playmate's name is George. Now when little children invent people, they usually give them simple names. George is not one they usually use. He says this playmate comes in through the window and plays with him. One day he was running about upstairs and his mother asked what he was doing and he replied that he and George were playing tag. Okay. Another time he called down to his mother when he was having a bath and asked her to tell George to stop turning on the cold water. Alright. They were getting ready to go in the car and he asked his dad to tell George to do up his seatbelt. Spooky.
Why spooky? My father died five years ago, before this little boy was born, they never met. My father's name was George. My father loved to play practical jokes (it's where I got it from). My father hated doing up his seatbelt and rarely did. When my father was young, their favourite game was tag.
The thing is, no one called him George around the family, he was always Grampa, all the children called him that, including this little boy's father and uncles. We don't know what to make of it. Just an odd coincidence? Or is it something else? Someone suggested we show him a picture of George and see if he recognizes him, but we decided that if we did it would have to be a picture of my dad as a little boy, not as a man. It would seem reasonable that his playmate would be a little boy like himself, don't you think?
As I said, it's weird, I've never had any experience like this before. What do you think? Strange or what?
The thing is that he says this playmate's name is George. Now when little children invent people, they usually give them simple names. George is not one they usually use. He says this playmate comes in through the window and plays with him. One day he was running about upstairs and his mother asked what he was doing and he replied that he and George were playing tag. Okay. Another time he called down to his mother when he was having a bath and asked her to tell George to stop turning on the cold water. Alright. They were getting ready to go in the car and he asked his dad to tell George to do up his seatbelt. Spooky.
Why spooky? My father died five years ago, before this little boy was born, they never met. My father's name was George. My father loved to play practical jokes (it's where I got it from). My father hated doing up his seatbelt and rarely did. When my father was young, their favourite game was tag.
The thing is, no one called him George around the family, he was always Grampa, all the children called him that, including this little boy's father and uncles. We don't know what to make of it. Just an odd coincidence? Or is it something else? Someone suggested we show him a picture of George and see if he recognizes him, but we decided that if we did it would have to be a picture of my dad as a little boy, not as a man. It would seem reasonable that his playmate would be a little boy like himself, don't you think?
As I said, it's weird, I've never had any experience like this before. What do you think? Strange or what?
