Ok, it happened again and now I have proof, well sort of. Here's some background. There's a small drawer in my kitchen which was cheaply constructed. 5 days ago my wife pushed the drawer in too hard and the face of the drawer popped off. She mentioned it to me when I got home from work that day and I took a look at it. Here's the face plate: [IMG]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0UgDPAlcZnyWBUsAocc2Hhekg3KcNio7Yrm0NRAg!SFBQbKaWJW20xHXNUnJH!Lr6TmpJxzpW3u6GhEzRW*4cQclX7TWnXkkmuOZJTdcUBn6PYDYx21abeEcdrbP97RDS/Drawer%20face%20plate.jpg?dc=4675434242229522163[/IMG]
I drew a few ovals on it to highlight some things. The two ovals on the left and right are where the face attached to the sides fo the drawer. The face plate had a left-right groove where the bottom of the drawer fit against the plate. I drew an oval showing the part of the plate below the groove. Notice how part of the plate below the groove broke away also? Here's a pic of the drawer showing how the plate attached to it:
Notice the piece of wood left attached to the bottom of the drawer from the face plate. Here's another pic of the drawer from the bottom:
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The piece of the face plate left on the drawer is glued on. You can see it reflecting the camera flash.
So, what's this got to do with the price of beer in Milwaukee? When I first saw the plate last Thursday (5 days ago) the bottom piece of the plate was whole! The groove ran left to right and there was no piece broken off the bottom. I remeber it distinctly because I thought, " Well, at least the bottom groove runs all the way across the plate and that will help keep it held in place until we can get it fixed." Of course, when I noticed the piece had broken off yesterday I asked my wife about it she said it had always been broken as it is now and thinks I am a loon for thinking otherwise. This is truly bizarre to me. I know absolutely and positively that the bottom piece was not broken off when I first saw it.
Something changed. Somehow that broken piece shifted from the face plate to the drawer (in my reality). Of course, now that I have talked to my wife about it and two people have witnessed where the broken piece currently is, it will stay that way. I think this has to do with only one person seeing something as opposed to more than one. I wonder, if I had directly pointed out to my wife 5 days ago my thought about the groove being intact, if it would have stayed that way. There's no way I will ever know that! IMO if two people see a piece of reality they 'confirm' it is a certain way. If only one person sees it then it can shift. At least that's the way it seems to work for me.
