Time Rift

By Berni B.

A strange experience happened to me not too long ago. My brother had come home after being abroad and decided to take my wife and myself out for a meal. We ended up at the Wagon and Horses, a local country pub that served good food and drink.

After a couple of glasses of wine over dinner, I excused myself to go to the toilet which was located somewhere at the back of the establishment.

When I entered, I was a bit surprised by its decor because the place was old and tired looking which was a far cry from the warm, cozy atmosphere of the modernized pub itself. The toilet consisted of only a single slop - stone and lavatory top cistern with a drawstring pull attached. That's about it. I went back to the table and mentioned, in passing, how drab the toilet was and then got stuck into the meal, the wine and the craic.

When it was time to leave, I said, "I'll just nip to the toilet before we go."

When I got there, I thought that I had gone into the wrong room. Instead of a spit and sawdust kind of toilet, I now found myself in a modernized, well kept bathroom with all the fixtures intact. I just did not know what to make of it. I had not had a great deal to drink and I was not mistaken by what I had seen earlier. I was really perplexed. I went back to my company, but never mentioned anything about it as I thought they would think it was nothing more than the aftermath of one too many filled glasses of Italian Red.

Some time after, I was browsing the net and came across the phenomenon of time slips and the possibility of holes in the fabric of time. It started me wondering about that night in the pub as to whether I'd entered through a time slip and saw the pub's toilet as it was at some point in its past history. Who knows?

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