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 --- A GOPHER-LIKE INTERFACE FOR HIVE BLOCKCHAIN ---

Why I'm Staying Away from Knives This Week

BY: @riverflows | CREATED: May 31, 2026, 8 a.m. | VOTES: 413 | PAYOUT: $8.32 | [ VOTE ]

This week, I'm staying away from knives.

Why? My best mate, who I've been connected to since we met on the school bus at 11 years old and found commonality due to hairy legs and surfing Dads, sent me a rather gory picture of her hand with eight spidery stiches last night.

Turns out, she was cutting pumpkin with knives she did not know had been sharpened. Blood pissed out like her hand was a tap.

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A pumpkin I grew.

Why would I be staying away from knives? Because, like our first serious boyfriends were named Geoff Alan with a G, and our husbands are both called Jamie, we have a tendency to sync up. The last time she injured herself, she fell off her board, her thigh colliding violently with the fibreglassed foam, resulting in a rather large purple bruise. Ouch, I'd said, and three days later did the same bloody thing. Three years later, we both still have these lumps that will not quit.

So yeah, I'll stay away from knives for at least a week.

She argues very much for some higher forces at work that unite us through injury, wearing the same coloured hair ribbons to school, and having relationships that have people named identically.

I'm not sure about it - I don't always think co-incidence has a higher force, though I admit both having soul mates called Jamie that we met within six months of each other is pretty bloody X-files do-do-do-do.

Teen girls only have a certain amount of coloured ribbons.

And in a season of good surf where we were both out there almost daily, perhaps a surfing injury on the same leg was a sure bet.

But then there was my Dad's funeral. We'd talked about what we were wearing the day before. She'd gone charity shopping and bought a pretty black lacey top. I had a green dress I'd planned to wear.

On the day, I decided to wear a silky orange Indian embroidered top. She rocks up and she's wearning - orange? What the actual, sister.

It's got to the point we are no longer that suprised anymore.

So yeah, I'm staying away from knives this week, even though in fifty years of cutting pumpkin, it's probably

Do you believe in co-incidence? Do you have a close relationship where things happen? Are you careful when you cut pumpkin?

With Love,

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Replies

@coinjoe | May 31, 2026, 8:08 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

It is very interesting about you and your friend. Being that way since your youth makes it even more X-files like. Kind of like you were all part of an experiment of something.

Just be careful with those knives.

@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

It's just hilarious! I don't know how we do it. That last one at my Dad's funeral was ridiculous. We'd had such a long conversation about what we were wearing as well .

@ruffatotmeee | May 31, 2026, 9:35 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Its like the universe is saying that you two are friends for life, in sickness or maybe in everything? But wait, maybe this is what soulmate of a friends are? Its sweet and all but scary and I'll overthink if there's more than two cases of this and that where life wants you to experience the same thing but on different day and time? ಠ ೧ ಠ

@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Honestly, there does some some lovely poetic universe magic going on! WE are so lucky. She is my sister.

@rimurutempest | May 31, 2026, 10:22 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

That's almost like a movie story. You are a lot synched o.O

@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:07 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I know right? You wouldn't belive it.

@deirdyweirdy | May 31, 2026, 11:06 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

It's probably what? And I've never cut a pumpkin in my life.

@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:05 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I do like ending my posts with some reader interaction. They can write the rest, as I've clearly given up. It's a good way of checking to see who can read. I see you were too lazy to finish it as well. If you can figure out what I was saying, we will both know.

@leaky20 | May 31, 2026, 11:06 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Sounds like you two might have some sort of cosmic connection lol. Better to be safe than sorry - steer clear of knives! Lol

Pumpkins are very hard to cut. I could see a lot of knife injuries occurring from that type of produce.

Regarding your question. The human brain is wired to seek out and find connections and patterns in random events so I think a lot of coincidences are that - random acts that our brains connect together to give meaning. That being said the world is a mystery so who really knows. Theres manifest destiny, placebo effect, law of attraction perhaps as well so maybe we create similar events for ourselves subconsciously 🤷

Stay safe!

@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:08 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Ah, see, you are a rational scientifically minded person after my own heart. This is absolutely where I'm at. In the end, it doesn't matter what the story is, or whether it's science or poetry or something else, I'm just super lucky to have her in my life.

@nc6 | May 31, 2026, 7:59 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

jxt be careful next time.. sending hugs❤️

@owasco | May 31, 2026, 9:17 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

> I don't always think co-incidence has a higher force,

This is something else, but no necessarily a higher force. A miasm, which you both suffer and benefit from.

Great title, and great post to go with it! Fun read.

Yeah, I get why.

@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

A miasm. I like that! And I'm glad you liked it - you know the fun posts here are fun to write as well, and take no time at all, because they just flow x

@thebighigg | May 31, 2026, 9:21 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Ouch! Too bad she cut her hand so badly. Always know how sharp or dull your knives are, otherwise bad stuff will happen... Wise to take care and avoid them this week to avoid your own mishap! You have a strange cosmic connection obviously...

!BBH
!LADY
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@ladytoken | May 31, 2026, 9:22 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

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@riverflows | June 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

So far, so good - but my knives are super blunt! I can't be trusted with sharp ones!

@pizzabot | May 31, 2026, 9:22 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

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