This morning I woke up to the sound of thunder.

I'm terrified of lightning. I think it goes back to when I was a little kid. I was maybe eight years old and I saw it strike about twenty feet from me. The bolt hit metal and sparks flew everywhere. It made an impact.

The thing about lightning is that you never know exactly where it's going to strike. But I know it kills people. They don't expect it, never see it coming. They also say that it never hits the same place twice.

I've seen lightning strike the same place twice, during the same storm.

It was after a little league baseball game. My team went to the local Pizza Hut to celebrate our latest win, or more likely loss.

A storm came up and lightning hit the pole, between the Pizza Hut and the Minit Mart. The power went out as I was playing the Shinobi arcade game. Left in the dark, for only a couple of minutes, as lightning hit the exact same pole. What are the odds of that?

It was one of those electric poles with the transformer on it. Strangely, the electricity from the bolt, powered back up the Pizza Hut. The lights came back on, but only for a second, then faded out. Then the Minit Mart's lights came on, but likewise, only for a couple of seconds. The power alternated back and forth between the two businesses for a minute or so, each time fading a little bit each time, until it was gone.

Is this like love? Or baseball? What were the different bases again?

It reminds me of the only home run I ever got. It was a comedy of errors. It had nothing to do with me, I should have been thrown out at first base.

I can't predict the future exactly, but sometimes I can make a good guess. It scares me, how often my worst fears turn out to be true. I know it's an irrational fear, but lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, now does it?