The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/shadowbehinddoor on 2025-02-21 23:41:29.

Tl;Dr : traveled to Paris for two weeks, lost a bottle of contact lenses solution there, came back home two days after losing it… Found it in the bathroom.

As written in the tl;Dr, I wear contacts. I bought three bottle of a new brand I never tried, discount on the website. Opened one, two brand new. The bottle is half empty as we speak (or half full or totally schrodinger idk). I travel to Paris. I take it. I put in next to the bed with the little box containing the contacts. Same ritual every night : I remove the contacts, take the solution, put them both in the box and go to sleep. Same ritual For two weeks.

One night, the bottle in not there, so I search the whole appartement where I stay. The refrigerator, oven, under the furniture. I looked everywhere. No bottle. My friend search with me the next morning. That’s her appartement, she knows every single corner.

I come back home, 100km away from Paris, tell the story to my mum : I think the toddler (2yo),son of my friend, might have played with the bottle and somehow hid it somewhere with his toys. My mum tells me “oh I found one of yours in the bathroom BTW”, so I reply I don’t think it’s possible since I bought three bottles and I checked in my room and took one of the two still available. I was on my way to the bathroom and… You guess it : the bottle, half empty, is in the bathroom. “The bottle” I lost two days ago. first time I ever buy that brand, one bottle in my hand, another in my room downstairs.

I don’t get it. I don’t even want to talk about it to my friend since it doesn’t make sense. So if my mum ask me about it tomorrow I’ll just pretend I actually bought that brand once before and did not remember one was already in the bathroom. 👀

Tomorrow I’ll check the batch number on the three bottled to confirm they are from the same box with the company that makes them.