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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.

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[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

waow-based you, the whole conversation

[–] crime@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

national park samurai please take the wheel tbh

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Monkey’s paw: They destroy both the US and China so that the Japanese emperor oak may reign for a thousand years

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think a tree would do a much better job than anyone in the US government.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, but only because this would allow President Xi to follow his master plan of sit-back-and-enjoy cool-zone

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

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

[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

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 biden-horror

[–] picklemeister@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

oh man, i would take that in a heartbeat over my usuals

Hot damn I would love to meet that guy.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

So much cooler than actual US history.