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# I briefly considered waving, but I didn’t want to find out what came next.
- URL: https://www.smallfailuresofreality.com/i-briefly-considered-waving-but-i-didnt-want-to-find-out-what-came-next/
- Published: 2026-08-06T02:31:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-06T02:31:30.000Z
- Author: Evan Mercer
- Tags: jokes, portents

![A suburban house at night, with a different human silhouette standing in every warmly lit window, watching the empty front yard.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/88/e88830a3-d951-4682-b91c-ff9b3de17f28/content/images/2026/07/wed_housedold_observers-1.jpg)