Mother's Day
Okay this is too fucking weird not to post. Tonight around 1am, I was geared up at the top of an object and called my groundcrew to let him know that the conditions were good and I would be jumping soon. I tied off my static line, climbed over the edge and traced my bridle routing, waited for a car to pass and then I could have swore I heard my mom's voice- distant, faint- calling my name. There was some wind and the buzzing of the antenna lights, but I got a really bad feeling and it seriously creeped me out that I thought I heard her voice as I was about to jump an hour into Mother's Day. I thought about how terrible it would be for her if I went in, and had the sinking feeling that it was a very bad omen and something terrible was about to happen. So, I counted off and jumped. Parachute opened as advertised, I had a beautiful canopy flight, nice landing, stashed and ran to the car. My groundcrew drove us out, we had a quick talk as I took my gear off and we went our separate ways. I was driving home when my phone rang, and saw that it was my parent's house calling.
I picked up to hear my mom crying and my dad angry. He told me that I called and woke them up, and my mom was certain that I was laying "mortally wounded" at the bottom of an object and trying to contact them because all she heard was muffled noises for 10 minutes before hearing me and my grouncrew's voices. She was shaken and also pissed at my dad for apparently not being concerned enough. I tried to offer how I thought I had heard her voice, and it was kind of a cool connection between us on Mother's Day since she obviously heard the whole jump, and this was actually better than flowers (which I didn't send). Alas, she was not comforted.
The weird thing is that my parent's house is not on a speed dial, I didn't scroll through my phone book to their number, and my phone can't even dial when it is closed (I closed it after talking to my groundcrew). But my phone log registered calling and a 19:55 conversation.
I've had some pretty dismal Mother's Day efforts in the past but I don't think there's any recovering from this one.