The Great Beyond....

You know how some times your external hard drive will make that weird little grinding noise when it's in use and is spinning the internal disk thing-a-ma-jig?
And you know how it doesn't do that very often and so, understandably, when you hear it you think it's actually a voice, muttering in low tones just beneath the edges of your hearing?
So you ask your husband "Did you say something?"
and your husband says "No I thought that was your stomach."
So you laugh and then hear the noise again and feel pretty dang confident that it is indeed the external hard drive for your computer.
But joke out loud "I should say hello in case it IS some voice from the great beyond trying to communicate."
So you say "Hello" and 4 seconds later there's a high pitched unintelligible answer from beside you, and you screech a little, curse a little, just enough to tinge the air around you slightly blue while your husband laughs and says it's a dog outside.
But you know how you have to have a hug after that, because for a half of a second you thought the great beyond was actually answering you...?
You know..?