The Cabinet
July 27th, 2008 by WHO WAS PHONE?
Every family in every town in every country on every continent has one. It’s a cabinet, not particularly odd, not out of place. The paint was peeling a bit on the corners and the knob was a bit loose. The inside smelled like dust and the paint wasn’t the same as the kitchen walls.
You hid in there once during a game of hide ‘n’ seek.
No one told you it doesn’t open back into your reality. Don’t worry, you can’t tell the difference.
But everyone misses you.
Posted in Strange & Unknown
July 27th, 2008 at 12:46 am
So THATS how I got here….dammit!
July 27th, 2008 at 1:04 am
OH SHI–!!
July 27th, 2008 at 1:16 am
OP is a fag.
lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies
July 27th, 2008 at 1:20 am
i shivered.
July 27th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Favorite one in a while, very short, very SIMPLE, and very thought provoking.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Niiice.
I’m creeped out.
Except, I can’t recall ever hiding in an old cabinet. Unless you count broom closets, and those weren’t painted.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:58 am
…lul wut? I presume that it’s supposed to exit into this identical parallel universe…I just don’t know what the difference is meant to be, aside from your absence from the one you just left. And if everyone has exited the parallel universe of their birth, why aren’t they mostly awaiting the reader’s arrival? I could ponder this all day…
July 27th, 2008 at 3:00 am
So where’s my parallel self?
July 27th, 2008 at 6:27 am
The OP has misleadingly ascribed qualities which cabinets do not possess. Anyone in the know can tell you only reflective surfaces allow for such trasnport.
July 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am
So that’s where my brother went
July 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Ha! I have never hid in a closet!
DO THE HOME REALITY DANCE!
July 27th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I love this story…Its short but it makes you think
July 27th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Soooo. . . What about my parallel twin?
Does she come here? Because if she does then my family wouldnt miss me becasue she’s my exact double.
And does everyone in the next dimension over know that we switched? Or are they just as non-suspecting as my real family is?
July 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hmm, it really is a thinker.
It just seemed like something was missing when I read it.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I’m scared.
This one made me concerned. I hid in cabinets all the time.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Hahaha, sucks.
It’s fine, this reality has been good to me.
July 27th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
#9
Oh God, Well Done has spawned other irritating “mystery commenters”
July 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
this story sucks
July 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
This sounds like a good idea for a science fiction story or something. Definitely sounds like something Neil Gaiman would turn into a story, though.
July 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I don’t understand the end. It can be misinterpreted so easily.
ZOMG B’AWW WHERES MY CHILDD!?
or wtfz no one sees me
And the first 3 sentences are kinda choppy. Makes me feel like I’m talking to an iraqi kid who barley knows english.
July 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I don’t understand the end. It can be misinterpreted so easily.
ZOMG B’AWW WHERES MY CHILDD!?
or wtfz no one sees me
And the first 3 sentences are kinda choppy. Makes me feel like I’m talking to an iraqi kid who barley knows english.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Short, sweet, simple. Nice, effective.
But it reminds me of an epicly awesome post on /x/, where this person was requesting things for creepy notes– some of them were around these lines.
July 27th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
…esrevinu lellarap siht ni pu dedne I woh s’taht oS
July 28th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Seems a nice twist on the classic urban legend. Then again, my English is wheat.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Manduwala? Is that even a name?
July 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Devon, it’s a Tibetan colony in India where I used to live.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
its so simple …and creepy O.O
i never hid in a cabinet befor though if i did …..oh well
July 29th, 2008 at 1:39 am
This is one of my favorites.
it makes you think. what if…..
July 29th, 2008 at 3:52 am
what if.. you WEREN’T phone?
July 29th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Iz dis sum Narnia?
July 29th, 2008 at 8:19 am
So quick to deny any existence outside of your own perception, #17? A safe option, true…once you’ve seen beyond, you can’t return to who you were.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Wait, hang on. I DID hide in a cabinet…
But there were people with me too 0_o .
July 29th, 2008 at 9:55 am
#30
Yupz. Sorry to dissapoint.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
rofl #30
it’s a nice short story, last line’s kinda sad though.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Holy crap! I thought something was wrong after that game! I’ve been living a lie. **sniff**
August 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
So that’s what happened to the people missing from my life as told by “Now What Was I Just Doing?” story…
August 10th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Anybody round here actually left it on papers round town? Not the best, but not hard to think of. I personally like the coma one better. “Wake up, we miss you…”
August 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
So I should go back into a cabinet, open and close the door repeatedly until I come back to my first reality?
August 11th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
why does everyone think this is about a parallel twin? Did you read the ending?
August 15th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Story is bullshit.
I don’t have such a cabinet.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:18 am
…Shouldn’t you notice people disappearing after hide and go seek? I think people would have caught on if other people besides you have this same thing happening.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
So, if you go into the cabinet and end up in some other dimension, what happens if you go in the cabin again? O.o
August 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
**cabinet
Ew, bad typing.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
no wonder everything looked topsy-turvy after that game of hide-and-seek.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Nice this really creeped me out to the point where I didn’t want to go into the cubbards.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:04 am
I really do think this is one of the creepier ones. Definetely a personal favorite.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I just remodeled, I couldn’t find this cabinet.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
mmm, so all the people who had ever gone into a cabinet to play hide and seek…would they end up in the same parallel universe?
like my mother was a child, i’m sure she played hide and seek…and therefore my father must have as well to meet in said parallel universe to give birth to my sister and me…and since my sister and i have played as well we must have both either gone to the same parallel universe, or this person i’m looking at now is not my sister at all, but a parallel version of her and she is somewhere else…but then this person that is my sister, did she not play hide and seek as a child?…so she should be missing as well… basically what i’m trying to say is that since the author is saying that most people have played hide and seek, then most people should no longer be existing because our parallel selves would have played hide and seek as well…and now my brain hurts ><
is the author implying that there are multiple parallel universes then?
sorry, everyone said it made them think, so it made me think of this.
that is all
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
the muther fucker took my ravioli to a different dimension
September 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
you make meh head hurts
September 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
hmm
September 12th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
#39, because it says “you can’t tell a difference.” I mean, do I have to say duh? Therefore, there would be your parents in another universe. But then there’d be another you as well. And you can’t exist in two universes. And if you could, is that how twins come to be?
September 13th, 2008 at 12:22 am
sorry moomoon
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September 13th, 2008 at 12:23 am
also…our original universe should be missing a bitch load of kids…if that is our original universe…well i guess in the case of this everyone has a different original universe and i’m gonna stop now cuz my brain hurts again…owwie ><
September 24th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
This is thought provoking. Me likey
But what happens if, after already ending up in another reality, you repeat the process? As in there’s another cabinet in that universe and you hide in that one too. Would that open up to the original reality, or would it open the door to yet ANOTHER alternate universe. If that’s the case…then each time one hides in a new cabinet, one would end up in another reality.
…Holy shit that means there must be a bajillion realities to go through.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
*Boom*
@ DJLo0Na
you made my head expload
September 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Could have been good. But it isn’t.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
That’s right, Johnny. I’m a very good hiding spot.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
This story appealled greatly to my worst fear ever. Thank you for scaring me out of my entire mind. =) No, really I actually enjoyed it a lot. Although I will be eternally creeped out by this story for the rest of my life.