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[conuly]

this is my personal reminder to myself that I have got to stop going to the nearest corner store, at least when that one cashier is there.

His conspiracy theories of choice tend to go well past the normal run-of-the-mill stuff, or even the National Enquirer flavor, straight into batshit territory. He thinks there are multiple fake suns in the sky, folks.

However, he's lately moved from amusing batshittery to straight up anti-Semitism, so I will suck it up and walk to the further corner store when I want soda, and even further if I want chips. (The other corner store, with the Mexican sodas, doesn't have onion garlic chips. I don't know, it's weird. And actually, the one with the chandeliers doesn't either. So at this point my choice is either the dollar store or the grocery store.)

No, I don't know who to complain to.

Comments

[steorra]

"He thinks there are multiple fake suns in the sky"

Okay, that's definitely weirder than my local conspiracy theorist's "viruses don't exist", which is weird enough.

[conuly]

Yeah, it's the tip of the iceberg with him. And not only does he think things like this, he doesn't think there's anything at all strange about telling every random customer about them.

[dark_phoenix54]

Can he point these multiple fake suns out? Does he actually see the damn things?!? It sounds like he's not really well rooted in reality....

[conuly]

He's not. Honestly, I'm glad he's functional. But, I don't want to deal with his insanity-fueled bigotry!

[james]

I had a co-worker who would gladly explain how he could never get married because it would trigger the apocalypse and his proof was doing Bible Numerology. Also, his home address was in the Bible - the sort of thing where you say "My first name has 6 letters so you go to the sixth book in the bible, my last name is 10 letters so verse ten, the first and fifth word put together mean the same thing as a French word which is derived from the same word my street name is derived from."

Also, aliens kidnapped him from a Mexican jail while he was on drugs, but strangely he never thought that "doing drugs" was ever the reason for "seeing aliens."

[wpadmirer]

Okay, that is batshit.

And I thought the guy at work who talks Deep State and the conspiracy of the Democrats to put us under martial law once Trump is out of office was nuts.

[adafrog]

He thinks there are multiple fake suns in the sky, folks.
OMG, that was a Welcome to Nightvale Episode!

There is a store with a chandelier?

[conuly]

Yes, and it is glorious. It's just your standard little corner store, but for some reason all their lighting is in the form of crystal chandeliers.

[minoanmiss]

UGH I hate it when people discommode us by being awful. I can't get a taxi from the nearest taxi stand to my workplace because one of the cabbies is a conspiracy-theorist Trumpian nutbar. And the people who work for any given cab service switch cabs all the time.

Good luck and I'm sorry this lump of somewhat fell into your path.

[conuly]

Yeah, and he's the cashier there the most, too.

I'm sorry for you being stuck with your taxi situation.

[conuly]

Yeah, I think it's clear that this cashier is just not well. But he's able to hold down a steady job, so good for him. I don't want to deal with him.

[nodrog]

This has definitely piqued my curiosity.  I’ve heard how airliner contrails are really “chemtrails” laid by the Shadow Government™ - and of course there are indeed multiple suns in the sky, some 7000 naked-eye visible suns - at night, anyway - but “fake suns”?  Why?


(Back in the salad days of low taxes, when we could fund a space program and a war at the same time, the Pentagon noodled around with putting more Echo satellites up - huge mirrored Mylar balloons, a dozen or more, each of which would outshine the full Moon, a daisy-chain of overhead lights to deny the night to the NVA and Viet Cong.  Fantastic?  You should see what they were contemplating in the 1980s…)

[nodrog]

That's because WE're drugged to NOT see them!  Believe it!  It's in the water!

[pauamma]

Well, there are multiple suns in the sky, even if they're not fake, just not visible all the time, and one is much nearer than the others, so maybe he's partly right?

[lilysea]

However, he's lately moved from amusing batshittery to straight up anti-Semitism

Ugh! :(

If ever there was a time to speak to the manager, this is that time.

I'm sorry you don't have contact details for them.

[marahmarie]

Do you have a Family Dollar nearby (stop me if it's actually the dollar store you go to)? I think they used to carry Mexican Coke, but am not sure if they still do.

It was all I'd ever drink myself because real sugar (I try not to drink soda, though, and have gotten more stringent over the last 10 years or so. But when I do I'm stuck with corn syrup or cane sugars, as Mexican Coke is never where I shop*).

*not that it matters now that I can never "shop" anymore

[conuly]

I think the one with the roaches is a family dollar, and the one with the mexican coca-cola is a dollar general. But I'm not sure.

[conuly]

If ever there was a time to speak to the manager, this is that time.

Indeed, but I'm really not sure who the manager even is. For all I know it might be him. I doubt it, but.

[conuly]

Why fake suns? Something about mushrooms.

[moon_custafer]

That sounds charming. I remember when I was a kid and my family went to the hardware store, I’d always go look at the lighting section where all the chandeliers were on display.

[dorchadas]

Dig deep enough in any conspiracy theory and they pretty much always blame us. Sigh.

I am curious if he thinks we're behind the fake suns, though.

[greghousesgf]

OOoooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy

[siderea]

Er, except if he's driving away customers, if his boss ever figures it out, he won't be holding down a steady job.

That is, in fact, why people like him typically wind up on disability. Because they can't hold down a steady job. Because they keep getting fired because of how they treat coworkers and customers.

[adafrog]

Cool!

[conuly]

Yeah, I see that. Still have no idea how to find out who the manager is without asking... probably him directly, actually, which is not where I'm willing to go.

[conuly]

These are questions I don't intend to ask.

Edit: Though this specific ranting was pretty standard garbage about communism and greed and I don't need or want to recount it to you and I'm sure you don't need or want to hear it.

[silveradept]

To the further corner store, where the cashiers do not spout nonsense and terrible conspiracy theories.

[marahmarie]

*snerfle*

[dorchadas]

Sadly true...I get enough of that (regardless of how I feel about it) on Twitter.

[swingandswirl]

Oh dear.

I'm sorry you (and all the other patrons) have to deal with this Nonsense.

[bibliofile]

Does he ever have meta-conversations, like, why he tells everyone about all his conspiracy theories? Because maybe then you could ask him to can the bigoted ones.

(My nerd self is tempted to find out more about the fake suns, but then I'm not the one talking to the guy.)

ETA: OK, never mind the thing about asking him directly.

(Note to self: Always finish reading the comments before replying. Dammit. Sorry!!!!)