7 SEPTEMBER 2025 WorldWide Drilling Resource® The Un-Comfort Zone II by Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. Was this Incident Synchronicity, Situational Awareness, or Something Else? Continuing my stories of weird things that have happened to me, I’d like to share an uncanny coincidence I endured the summer I was 18 years old. Carl Jung called coincidences synchronicity if they had some meaningful significance to the people who experienced them. Jung also claimed synchronicity may validate the existence of the paranormal, but he never did any scientific studies to prove this. According to Wikipedia: Synchronicity supposes events may be causally unrelated yet have unknown noncausal connection. And, that is what makes them so interesting and eerie. I don’t know what meaning the following event had for me, but it was definitely not normal. And, it’s something that's stayed in my memory ever since. Right after I graduated high school, with my eyes on beginning a Pre-Med college major in the fall, I went to work in a hospital emergency room (ER). The layout of the ER floor plan was a large rectangle with the nurse's station in the middle of two hallways and all the treatment rooms along the opposite sides of the hallways. Prominently placed in the nurse's station was the Urgency Map. It was a large, dry erase whiteboard with the floor plan printed on it. Into each of the squares representing treatment rooms, the triage nurse would write the patient's last name and condition, for example: Smith - Chest Pain; Miller - Laceration, and so forth. The purpose was so the doctor on duty could step into the nurse's station and see at a glance where the next priority was. One Saturday morning the ER became very busy; all the rooms filled up and there were patients still in the waiting room. The doctor rushed from room to room all day, then finally in the afternoon he got stuck with a complicated case for about an hour. During that time the entire ER cleared out. One of the nurses pointed to the blank Urgency Map and said, “Dr. Kennerly is going to like the sight of that when he comes out of treatment room six.” Maryann, the charge nurse, was a prankster and said, “Let's have some fun with him when he gets out.” She then went to the whiteboard and filled in all the squares by writing ER employee's last name’s and an ailment for each. By my name she wrote “Bee Sting.” A few minutes later, Dr. Kennerly walked into the nurses' station, looked at the full whiteboard, and cried out, “Oh no!” He then rushed over to get a closer look to see where he needed to go next; within a few seconds he recognized all the staff’s names and laughed out loud in relief. The whole nurse's station joined in the laughter. My shift ended about an hour later and I went home. When I got there, my mother asked me to mow the lawn, actually just a section of it that was very shaded where grass wouldn't grow - only weeds. That section of the lawn only needed mowing once or twice a year. I changed into a t-shirt, running shorts - you know how short those are - and a pair of sneakers, and started mowing the weeds. A few minutes later, I felt a burning sensation on my rear end. I turned around to see a swarm of yellow jacket wasps flying up out of the ground where I had just mowed. I ran as fast as I could, but not before I got four bee stings on my left cheek and couldn't sit down for three days after. When I went into work the next day, I told Maryann what happened, and added, “I'm just so grateful that you didn't put me down for getting hit by a bus!” What lesson did I learn from that? I wondered, was this some sort of Law of Attraction thing? Did I somehow attract those bee stings because Maryann wrote it on the whiteboard? I did learn that Situational Awareness is important regardless of where you are. If I had been paying attention, I might’ve noticed the yellow jackets flying toward and away from a single spot on the ground in front of me as I mowed. Was there anything otherworldly or paranormal about this experience? I don’t know, but because it was so weird and it happened so quickly after Maryann seemingly predicted it, I have never been able to forget it. What do you think? Robert Robert is an innovation/change speaker, author, and consultant. He works with companies that want to be more competitive through innovation and with people who want to think more creatively. Contact him via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com Rob started Jumpstart Your Meeting in 1997. Louisiana Ground Water Association (LGWA) Make plans to attend the 2026 LGWA Convention & Trade Show January 6-7, 2026 Paragon Casino Resort Marksville, Louisiana Registration Form Online https://LGWA.org Discount Code GRJ06GR
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