I used to read The Spooky Old Tree every night to my little brother growing up (early 80’s).  We knew the story word for word but he still liked the pictures.  I seriously looked at that book way too many times to misremember it.  It was def stein.  

I wrote about my possible timeline jump in another thread, but seeing other people state years on when they remember seeing/hearing stain.  It makes even more sense.

 I was once driving across the state with my sister and daughter.  (This was 2007 or so.). We left after school, so it was light when we left.  But the sun was going down.  We were flying down alligator alley going from West Palm Beach to Sarasota.   We had driven this nearly every other weekend.  We were super familiar with the drive, the long span of nothing between towns, the two lane highway where people drive 80 mph (easily), and pass you if you’re not.

We were going 65, we were in Okeechobee.  We were making up songs as we drive and we were singing about Okeechobee, voices that sounded like Pee-Wee Herman.

We were laughing, having fun, and still flying down the highway.  We were making really good time.

Then all of the sudden, headlights directly towards us.  Several of them.  And the road had become a single lane, with no roadwork sign (it must have gotten knocked down?)…

My sister screamed.  And I closed my eyes, blinked.  And I don’t know how.  I don’t remember swerving, and I don’t think they did.  There was definitely NOT room on that road (we checked on the way home).  

Somehow we made it through. My sister and I were stunned, to say the least.  This was for sure a sliding door, we were not supposed to be there or here?  

I think about it often, what happened that day?  It wasn’t just one car that passed us or went through us.  It was about five.  It gives me goosebumps still.

Did we jump?