Question about a weird pattern with streetlights going out

I started noticing this about six months ago. I'd be driving home late, maybe after a long day, and a streetlight would go out right as I passed under it. I wrote it off as a fluke, but then it happened again the next week, and again. I told my friend about it, and he said, 'You're not special, it's just old bulbs.' But I kept a rough count, and it's happened at least 15 times now, always on the same stretch of road near my place. It got me thinking maybe I was focusing on it too much, making it seem like a pattern when it wasn't. So I changed how I drive home. I started taking different routes, or I'd try not to look at the lights at all. On the new routes, it doesn't happen. But if I go back to that old road, it starts up again. Has anyone else had a specific spot where stuff like this just... lines up?

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troyjackson2mo ago

Old bulbs" my butt, that road's got a grudge against you.

amyc222mo ago

Oh man, I just slowed way down there!

valwest1mo ago

My old neighborhood had a light on Maple that did the same thing for years. It would flicker and die every single time my dog and I walked past it on our night walks. We tested it, my roommate saw it happen, it was a thing. They finally replaced the pole last year and it stopped. Some spots just have a weird vibe or a faulty sensor that picks up on something specific, like a certain car engine frequency. Your count of 15 times on that one road is way too many to be random chance.