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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/Reticulan60 on 2024-09-19 04:31:15+00:00.

Anybody experience time dilation?

I was attending a retirement dinner for a man I worked with for many years. The dinner was being held at a spot a bit over 50 miles from where I worked (I’d planned to leave from there). Well, work being work, something came up at the last minute, so I left much later than I’d wanted to, smack in the middle of rush hour. In the metro region where I lived at the time, traffic seriously sucked. Got on the beltway, and finally made it to my exit, another highway that would take me where I needed to go. From the exit, it’d be 50 miles to get to the town where the dinner was being held. I looked at the dash clock, and it was a couple minutes after six pm. I just knew I was going to be late because the dinner started at 7 and with traffic, I’d probably get there at 7:30. So I get on the highway and I noticed there was hardly any traffic, which was really weird for that time of day. I thought “great, I’ll floor it.” I did, and got to the venue. I asked the valet for the time, and he said “6:14” (I remember that clearly). My jaw dropped. I looked at my dash clock and it read the same time. That meant I drove 50 miles in a little less than 10 minutes. I had a zippy little sportscar at the time, and even if I pushed it to 120, I wouldn’t have made it in 10 minutes.

At least I wasn’t late for the dinner. But it was totally freaky.