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I looked down. -ETA?-. I typed -Can't text.

  • I looked down. -ETA?-. I typed -Can't text. Driving.- I looked up just before impacting an oak tree at 65 mph. I had neither a seatbelt nor a windshield but a large gust of wind
  • came on as a headwind and inexplicably decelerated me to result in only a slight 'bump' into the tree. An acorn gingerly fell onto the hood of my car and rolled down to driver's si
  • de where the acorn bumped against the windshield, and another gust carried it around and through the window into my lap. I sat there stunned, in my Corolla against the oak. Was I
  • alive? I picked up the acorn & rolled it between my bloody fingers. It seems I was and this...this little nut must be the reason why, I reasoned. My lucky acorn, it saved my life!
  • However, this acorn was not an acorn. it was a cluster of nanotechnology, programmed to stimulate luck! however, it was also programmed to destroy the human race. How i knew this,
  • I'll never know. I'm not sure that I even know that I knew it. Can I know something if I don't know that I do, Mr. Squirrel?" The squirrel, with its lucky acorn lunch, became deaf
  • to my existential crisis. I peered into his beady eyes and saw the void staring back. Oh, cruel squirrel, harbinger of death tell me no more! He held the acorn in a miser's grip.
  • The goat of existential angst glared at me as eyed the squirrel's acorn, while the the magpie of narcissism pointedly ignored me and the woodchuck of self-loathing curled up around
  • the beaver of hyper-criticism. Snow White had wandered into the wrong forest. The goat of existential angst started chewing on the leaves of self-defeat. The narcissistic magpie
  • looked up from the pool of self obsession and held up the Apple of Knowledge in a gnarled claw. Snow White took the fruit. She hesitated, then bit into its sour flesh.
Started
2013-02-10 03:15:02
Finished
2013-02-26 04:40:47

26 Comments

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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 05:19

    Looks like I've posted twice again. Hope I'm not. Remaking the site with all my manic posting.
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 05:26

    You know what, iPad's fascist autocorrect is getting on my nerves! What I wrote above isn't the tiniest bit near what I wanted to say. But it's not worth typing it all out again, checking it etc.
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    PurpleProf Feb 26 2013 @ 10:42

    LucieLucie...you must now be in possession of the lucky acorn, 'cause I just gave you double points!!
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    PurpleProf Feb 26 2013 @ 10:50

    One other possibility... Perhaps you were being telepathic with yourself?
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    49erFaithful Feb 26 2013 @ 11:19

    The repeated folds started a little while ago and don't happen often. Every other time I've seen it, the FS founders correct it. And yeah, iPads are great but touch screen typing is clunky.
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    noah Feb 26 2013 @ 11:47

    Hi, guys. The repeated folds happen when you press the submit button twice (usually on an iPad). We're working on a fix, but it might take a few days.
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 13:02

    Thanks Noah! So it's not the magic acorn, my new psychic abilities or Steve Job's ghost in my machine. It's me being a butterfingers. Maybe making the submit button absolutely MASSIVE would help - just an idea...
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 13:04

    I've just had to press the button 3 times to submit the last message. I have to press it a very special way otherwise It gets the blue copy thingy on it.
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 13:07

    Thanks for the double points PurpleProf! (Don't know if I've still got them though).
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    noah Feb 26 2013 @ 13:34

    Ask and ye shall receive. The button has been enlarged and slightly tweaked for mobile styling. A few more backend tweaks should make duplicate lines a thing of the past. Thanks for folding everyone!
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    PurpleProf Feb 26 2013 @ 13:38

    Well, Noah, while you are in the mood... Could you also give us prizes for our folds? Like, um...money??
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    49erFaithful Feb 26 2013 @ 14:00

    Wait a minute, you mean we're not getting paid for this? Thanks for the info and tweaks Noah!
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 14:02

    ProfPurple - Noah's far too busy tweaking backends to think about your outrageous demands.
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    PurpleProf Feb 26 2013 @ 14:06

    Well, he did say "Ask and ye shall receive" after all. And I did ask politely. OK, I suppose our entertainment here is payment enough. I retract my request.
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    buddyboy4711 Feb 26 2013 @ 14:10

    But if Noah isn't paying me after all, then who keeps sending me all this mystery money? Problems, man.
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 14:18

    ProfPurple - when Noah wrote about backend tweaking, it made me think about the fold you wrote about tweaking the proposal at Naughty Romances. I didn't think you'd go so far as to withdraw your reasonable request!
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    noah Feb 26 2013 @ 14:21

    When this site starts making money, we can revisit spreading the wealth!
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    PurpleProf Feb 26 2013 @ 14:22

    Hmmmm... Well then, LucieLucie, do you think if I tweaked my request, he might consent? There is something to be said for tweaking...as well as shenanigans.
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    lucielucie Feb 26 2013 @ 15:13

    I don't know, ProfPurple, It's always worth a try. Just don't make him remember the site makes no money.
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    BlastedHeath Feb 26 2013 @ 20:53

    @Noah -- I think this site is spreading a different kind of wealth ;-) @People who live in two or more worlds -- please only press "submit" in one of them. @Time-travelers -- well, do your best. Keep a log or something.
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    BlastedHeath Feb 26 2013 @ 21:05

    BTW, one of the funniest stories I've read.
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    m80 Mar 23 2013 @ 19:14

    Keep an eye out for an affectionate poke (and perhaps help finish??) at lucielucie's multiple submit button pressing here: http://foldingstory.com/kb01u/; and the following (it would be fun if they all were finished at the same time): http://foldingstory.com/svwe7/; http://foldingstory.com/svwe72/; http://foldingstory.com/svwe71/. Cheers!
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    lucielucie Mar 24 2013 @ 09:36

    I want to thank everyone in advance for helping me deal with my psycho Burmese stalker issues once and for all. (Just look at that lovely massive submit button).
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    SlimWhitman Mar 24 2013 @ 20:13

    Wow, just stumbled across this lenghty thread - so now I finally know why the submit button is 3 sizes larger than before. Great story by the way. It reminds me a lot of another one. I think the acorns are from the same tree.. http://foldingstory.com/4r06a/
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    BlastedHeath Mar 26 2013 @ 20:29

    These days, you don't have to OBEY, you just have to SUBMIT ;-)
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    noah Mar 26 2013 @ 21:36

    Put on the glasses!

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