Yesterday a customer entered our shop (jewelry shop), and she looked around for a bit.
You could already see she was an 'oddball' by the types of clothes she was wearing and the enormous amount of weird jewels she had on her.
She started talking, and asked us to show her some jewels she was interested in. And here comes the interesting part.
She said she was sent by Madonna, and that she deserved free jewels.
She asked us to please hand her the jewels.
She said something like 'I had sacred visions of Madonna and Jesus, and they told I could pay spiritually'.
She started insisting that she had the right to pay 'spiritually', because she was enlightened.
When we - obviously - said no, she started getting pretty upset.
I started thinking if I had to call the police, but after a bit she left angrily.
You don't realise how much of a nut someone can be until you see a person like this. It was worrying and hilarious at the same time.
We then discovered she wasn't just insane, she was probably taking advantage of morons.
We saw her in the city's main street, and people were paying her to receive the 'blessings of Madonna' - there was quite a long tail of people waiting.
I never thought I could see something like that happening in my city.
For evil to prevail, good people must stand aside and do nothing.
UPDATE- If anyone's interested, Bill Maher is tweeting some hilarious stuff about this debate as it happens.
UPDATE 2- Bernie Sanders was posting about it as well!
Bernies tweets are the embodiment of my thoughts while watching it, I wouldn't have bothered, but my father made me watch it, it seems as though he will be voting for either Trump or Cruz. Really makes me feel like the oddball in my family.
This video about whether or not Mario is evil is actually about human biases, it's rather interesting and very applicable to human behaviour towards animals. In fact, if you replace the word "Mario" with "Humanity" and the word "Gumba" with "Animals" the script still makes quite a lot of sense. https://youtu.be/BIePWBgKaXw
"I advocate infinite effort on behalf of very finite goals, for example correcting this guy's grammar."
- David Frum
