{"id":2029,"date":"2015-03-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:23:49","slug":"meet-mr-lampost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/meet-mr-lampost\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Mr. Lampost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone’s every day is filled with curious events.<\/h3>\n

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Winter days finish earlier. Everyday, a pitch black night waited for me to finish my work. Everyday, I walked the same route and passed by the same lamp post. Everyday, I grew a bit more curious and attentive.<\/p>\n

You see, that lamp post wasn’t like the others in the street. The others were already lit when I passed by, except for this one. A malfunction. Someone should tell someone else to send somebody to fix that.<\/p>\n

As soon as I walked alongside that lamp post it turned on. Thanks, I guess — the alley was a bit dark anyway. And after a few steps it turned off. Like it was before my presence. Now that was a curious coincidence. Until it started happening every single day.<\/p>\n

My scientific me accepted this mysterious erratic behavior as a challenge. There ought to be a pattern to this random malfunction! Night after night I started unveiling a behavior… and it had nothing of random.<\/p>\n

Experiments<\/h3>\n

When the lamp post was already on then, it would turn off. Either way when I walked away it always returned to how it was before my presence. Therefore it reacts to the presence of a person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But then one day someone else a few meters in front of me passed right by the lamp post. Suspiciously, it didn’t react, however when I walked that same path a few seconds after, it did react. Therefore it reacts only to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another day I took a shortcut a few meters away from the lamp post. To my surprise, regardless of the distance<\/em>, the lamp post turned on and off, signaling my passage! At this point things were starting to get a little bit freaky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This peculiar behavior made me want to record<\/strong> it, and so I did. As if the lamp post knew I was filming it it, it didn’t do its “thing” for a while. Only after I had given up and looked back one last time it turned on. It was making fun of me!<\/strong><\/p>\n