I’ve worked at three hardware stores and each one had one of these ladies.
Seriously, one just spent like half an hour ranting to me about how she thinks the local gas and electric company is conspiring against her.
I’ve worked at three hardware stores and each one had one of these ladies.
Seriously, one just spent like half an hour ranting to me about how she thinks the local gas and electric company is conspiring against her.
my wife’s got a weird old man - he doesn’t have any friends or family, so he goes into every store downtown to talk at people. it’s a bit sad (the consequences of not having third places, etc) but also he says some really weird shit so the goal is always to be kind but not so nice that he’ll be weirder at you personally (which happens)
Some guy I was helping years ago went on a rant about how Japan secretly won WWII and now an order of samurai are running the US through the national parks service based out of Alcatraz.
national park samurai please take the wheel tbh
Monkey’s paw: They destroy both the US and China so that the Japanese emperor oak may reign for a thousand years
Honestly, I think a tree would do a much better job than anyone in the US government.
Yes, but only because this would allow President Xi to follow his master plan of
That would make for a hell of an alt-history Man In The High Castle sort of fiction
He kept telling me to google “radio towers in national parks”
I mean, yeah I assume most national parks have a couple radio towers in them.
Holy shit that sounds way more interesting than having to figure out what a customer is trying to ask when they say, “For coffee enemas, is one bean or two bean better?” All the while my face is
That’s all just a cover plot. Their real aim is to use the resources of the United States to develop time travel so they can help the samurai win the Boshin War
oh man, i would take that in a heartbeat over my usuals
So much cooler than actual US history.
Hot damn I would love to meet that guy.