About a week ago I bought a new conditioner and since I’ve started using it I’ve noticed something strange about the packaging. The bottle seems pretty much like any other conditioner bottle, but whatever the manufacturer used to adhere the label to the instructions for use is failing miserably. Everytime I use the conditioner, random letters slide down off the bottle, onto my hands or down onto the shower floor. They may even end up in my hair. Sometimes entire words disappear at once, other times, like today, I end up with letters from different words stuck to my hand. Today was a little different though. I noticed the letters spelled out a word I’m pretty certain wasn’t anywhere on my conditioner bottle, “evil.” So I have to wonder, does this mean something? Is some otherworldly being trying to send me a message or is this just a random fluke?

I’ve also been wondering if it’s simply the kind of thing that happens with all bottles made by this specific manufacturer or if I just happened to pick the one bottle that was flawed. I’m not used to seeing words fall apart in front of me. And as someone who works in a library where words are a way of life, I find it mildly disturbing.