Heart surgery and psychopaths
I've hesitated to post about this because it's personal family stuff and it's also a little scary, but everything seems to be going well as it stands, so here goes.
We found out a couple of weeks ago that my dad would need bypass surgery, which was then performed on Friday. When they got in there working on him, they found that he needed a double bypass. He got to come home today, which was earlier than expected and he seems fine now :) He keeps trying to show me his scar and I keep refusing to look. Funtimes :b
And that's about all I have to say about that.
I wasn't going to make much of a post here, but oh man. This guy just came into the office wanting shirts promoting his book, and oh my gaw was he the biggest pile of crazy I've ever had the misfortune to meet. At first, he was totally normal, just a nice guy wanting some shirts. We explained that we can't do only 1 or 2 shirts at a time, that he needs to have a full order of 24 or more to go through us. He took that as an opportunity to start telling us about how the dollar is becoming worthless (while true and a perfectly sane thing to worry about, I think he uses this as a conversation starter for the rest of his craziness). That turned into a rant about how we're soon going to be shooting each other in the streets, because that's just what recession leads to, amirite? Anyway some of my favorite (paraphrased) quotes from this guy:
"The dollar is going to become worthless and we'll have to change currencies like Zimbabwe. They're going to put us on COMMUNIST CURRENCY."
"Obama is Hitler"
"Obama has a list of all of our names and if he wanted to (and believe me, he WANTS to!) he could just mark any one of us off and we'd be dead. It's a CIA kill order on the American people."
"They're gonna be looting and shooting in the streets. We're going to descend into chaos. That's what happens when there's a recession, you know."
"I don't know about you, but I'm not gonna let that happen to me. I've got a 12 gauge shotgun in my closet and I'm not afraid to use it. I don't know who I'm gonna shoot yet, but I'm gonna shoot someone."
Yeah. So. If there is looting and shooting in the streets, I'm going to assume that this wacko got his 12 gauge and started going postal. I mean, what do you do when someone flat out says "I'm going to shoot someone"? He seemed like a nice guy, not even the slightest bit unstable. He was saying these things in all seriousness and I don't think it even occurred to him that he literally just threatened to shoot someone in the scariest way possible - apparently without provocation. I probably would have felt less unsettled by it if he at least had a person or action in mind that warranted shooting. :I Scary redneck is scary.
He kept trying to talk my boss into buying his book (which I assume is self-published somehow) and I kind of REALLY WANTED TO but I had no cash. He said that it's a guide for things to come. "It's gonna happen, and it's all laid out right here in my book the way it's gonna happen." WELL SIGN ME RIGHT UP MISTER, CAUSE I NEEDS TO KNOW. How does one acquire these powers?!
My boss handled him well. He kept everything he said to him about business and printing shirts. The guy tried to convince us to get on the internet for him and have the shirts printed through Cafepress because he's "computer illiterate." I had my back turned to him the whole time facing the computer so I could roll my eyes with reckless abandon.
And Livejournal is six kinds of screwy and didn't save all this stuff yesterday when I tried to post it. BAH.
We found out a couple of weeks ago that my dad would need bypass surgery, which was then performed on Friday. When they got in there working on him, they found that he needed a double bypass. He got to come home today, which was earlier than expected and he seems fine now :) He keeps trying to show me his scar and I keep refusing to look. Funtimes :b
And that's about all I have to say about that.
I wasn't going to make much of a post here, but oh man. This guy just came into the office wanting shirts promoting his book, and oh my gaw was he the biggest pile of crazy I've ever had the misfortune to meet. At first, he was totally normal, just a nice guy wanting some shirts. We explained that we can't do only 1 or 2 shirts at a time, that he needs to have a full order of 24 or more to go through us. He took that as an opportunity to start telling us about how the dollar is becoming worthless (while true and a perfectly sane thing to worry about, I think he uses this as a conversation starter for the rest of his craziness). That turned into a rant about how we're soon going to be shooting each other in the streets, because that's just what recession leads to, amirite? Anyway some of my favorite (paraphrased) quotes from this guy:
"The dollar is going to become worthless and we'll have to change currencies like Zimbabwe. They're going to put us on COMMUNIST CURRENCY."
"Obama is Hitler"
"Obama has a list of all of our names and if he wanted to (and believe me, he WANTS to!) he could just mark any one of us off and we'd be dead. It's a CIA kill order on the American people."
"They're gonna be looting and shooting in the streets. We're going to descend into chaos. That's what happens when there's a recession, you know."
"I don't know about you, but I'm not gonna let that happen to me. I've got a 12 gauge shotgun in my closet and I'm not afraid to use it. I don't know who I'm gonna shoot yet, but I'm gonna shoot someone."
Yeah. So. If there is looting and shooting in the streets, I'm going to assume that this wacko got his 12 gauge and started going postal. I mean, what do you do when someone flat out says "I'm going to shoot someone"? He seemed like a nice guy, not even the slightest bit unstable. He was saying these things in all seriousness and I don't think it even occurred to him that he literally just threatened to shoot someone in the scariest way possible - apparently without provocation. I probably would have felt less unsettled by it if he at least had a person or action in mind that warranted shooting. :I Scary redneck is scary.
He kept trying to talk my boss into buying his book (which I assume is self-published somehow) and I kind of REALLY WANTED TO but I had no cash. He said that it's a guide for things to come. "It's gonna happen, and it's all laid out right here in my book the way it's gonna happen." WELL SIGN ME RIGHT UP MISTER, CAUSE I NEEDS TO KNOW. How does one acquire these powers?!
My boss handled him well. He kept everything he said to him about business and printing shirts. The guy tried to convince us to get on the internet for him and have the shirts printed through Cafepress because he's "computer illiterate." I had my back turned to him the whole time facing the computer so I could roll my eyes with reckless abandon.
And Livejournal is six kinds of screwy and didn't save all this stuff yesterday when I tried to post it. BAH.