Falling strides

On 3 January 2020 I attended a wedding reception in Bourtonon-the-Water, Gloucestershire, and afterwards stayed overnight in a local pub, the Duke of Wellington, in room 3. I got back to the pub around midnight and hung my trousers and jacket on hangers, on the curtain rail. Around 3am, something woke me up. I noticed the TV standby light flashing between blue, brighter blue and red without the screen coming on. I turned over, to turn on the bedside lamp in case I was inadvertently lying on the remote control. As I did so, the standby light went back to its default blue setting, remaining that way, and the trousers I had hanging about 8-10ft (2.43m) away, on the curtain rail, along the same wall, fell to the floor. This could be a normal occurrence, with the TV doing some sort of internal update and the trousers falling by coincidence. But maybe not.

Gordon Stone

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