My mom was making a phone call then the call didn’t go though…

and for context… I was always a curious kid and want to touch everything… I messed around my parents phones alot… I mean what’s a 10 year old (approximately… forgot how old exactly I was) to do when bored?..

So my mom instantly was like “oh I can’t make phone calls now, what the fuck did you do to my phone?”

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So I was just confused… did I touch a setting I didn’t understand? I mean I was still sort of learning the English language as a child immigrant and didn’t really understand all the words… maybe I accidentally touched a wrong setting?

But anyways I felt scared and sad, I think I started crying…

But you know what actually happened?

A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE LMFAO WHAT THE FUCK?

A very small one… so its sort of undetectable… especially when we were standing in the subway station… those over-the-ground stations built on top of the street (search “NYC Subway Brooklyn 86th Street D train” and you’ll know what I’m talking about)

I think a train just passed by as that mini-earthquake was happening… so the vibrations completely masked the earthquake…

I remember my mom literally just said “the way they build this station feels kinda unsafe, vibrates/shakes too much” like moments before making that call… so she felt the shaking, just thought it was the train passing… 🙃

So then later someone called and talked about some earth quake… and because everyone was calling each other it clogged up the phone lines (there was no 5G… so I think 4G gets overwhelmed much easier) which is why it took so long to get a call through… so then hearing that through the phone call… my crying then turned into anger…

So from then on, every time I get blamed for something, I just say “OMG it’s 紐約地震 (NYC Earthquake) again”, bascially saying that I’m being framed/wrongfully blamed…

Like its just a family joke now… it’s a special moment that my mom and I share… omg wtf was that coincidence lmfao