Sharon Catley’s Frog Legs Synchro

It seems that whenever I post about frogs, I get at least one really good frog synchro story from someone.  That happened today with my post Frogs as Totem Animals. Sharon Catley, a Canadian blogging friend, sent me this story:

I enjoyed your Frog Syncro this morning and would like to share mine. I don’t have many (synchros) anymore and I miss them. Hope all is well with you. 

Frogs legs 

I made a number of good friends when I was hanging out at the Deepak Chopra Forum.  One of these was a large, blond, studious young Sufi who lived in Calgary.  Frank was going to come to Vancouver for a vacation and asked if all those from Vancouver who also participated in the Forum would come to see him.  Two other ladies besides me decided to take him up on his offer of dinner while he was here. 

Over the next few years we (he and I) saw each other often – I would meet with him and his father when I went to see my parents in Calgary and he would meet with me when he came to Vancouver for his annual vacation. On his last trip (he later moved to the Orient to teach English and we lost contact) we met in downtown Vancouver and decided to go to the seafood restaurant that was on a paddle wheeler boat in North Vancouver for dinner – We needed to take the sea bus over to it – which was about a 20 minute ride in total.  

While we were on the sea bus for some reason our conversation had turned to cartoon characters who sang that we had watched while we were children.  For example bugs bunny singing opera (a parody of the Barber of Seville) and then singing “We are the boys in the chorus” and the dancing frog who sang “Hello my baby”, among others.The discussion topic lasted a few minutes then turned to something else. 

Later in the evening we were finishing our seafood when all of a sudden the strangest thing happened.  At the table next to us there was a group of six to eight Asian persons. We had not noticed them until they began singing which caught our attention  – we looked over and they were eating frog’s legs and singing loudly in perfect English “Hello my honey, hello my baby, hello my rag time gal – send me a kiss by wire – baby my heart’s on fire.”  This was one of the songs that we had been discussing on the sea bus – the one that the cartoon frog always sang. It was like being in a surrealistic dream. 

We tried to determine how this could happen.  We thought perhaps the Asian people had been on the sea bus and had been listening to our conversation but they did not look familiar. Also,  they had come in later than we had as they had just received their food and we had dawdled over our meal for an hour or so. 

This synchro is an odd one but powerful. It involves music, a particular cartoon character, and FROG. For me, frogs usually signify transformation. But what did it signify for Sharon?

Here was her response:

This happened over 20 years ago.  I wish I could say my life changed in some way afterwards but all I can think of was how shocked I was. I think that this event showed me that perhaps we are more connected to the common fabric of the universe than we might think. maybe the frog singers were thinking of the dinner they would have when my friend and I were on the way to our dinner but we picked up on their thoughts.  The singing cartoon characters of our youth were an enjoyable experience and helped connect us with the diners. Sorry I don’t have a better answer. Have a great night. 

I actually think her answer fits!