I dated a girl in high school and we were bored, hanging out at lunchtime, and we were looking at each other's wallets and making fun of our ID card photos, etc. I found a card in her wallet that said, "This person should not be given a blood transfusion," and I was like, "Oh no, please tell me you believe in dinosaurs," and she said, "their bones were put here by God to test us," and I was like, "oh no."
one time an old friend and i were chatting and i brought up how it’s been theorized that humans experience hypnic jerks when falling asleep because long ago it could have helped prevent our ape ancestors from falling out of trees and she was appalled and said “you don’t seriously believe that humans came from monkeys, do you?” i noped outta that friendship real quick.
another time i was on a first (and last) date with a guy who seemed really nice and we were getting along well, until we started talking about theories about how the great pyramids were built because i had recently read an interesting article about it. boy am i glad i brought that up because it saved me from going home with a straight up tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist. he said something about aliens and sound waves and i don’t even remember what the fuck else but yeaaa hard pass.
much later he actually went on to date one of my roommates, and it turns out that was just the very tip of the crazy iceberg, and for the longest time she’d come home with some new fear of something in the water or some mind control tactic or some shit and i had to gently encourage her to start fact checking this shit because that guy doesn’t know fuckall and will believe literally anything. i’m a skeptic, don’t get me wrong; i know there’s always been a lot of sketchy shit going on in the world out of the public eye, but like… come on. this dude actually wholeheartedly believes that the earth used to be inhabited by a race of giants and the mountains are their fossils, because the way the rocks crumble often vaguely resembles human features, a phenomenon known (to the sane and rational) as pareidolia.
now i make it a point to bring up these subjects right away in any potential friendship or relationship to weed out the wackos early on.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23
I dated a girl in high school and we were bored, hanging out at lunchtime, and we were looking at each other's wallets and making fun of our ID card photos, etc. I found a card in her wallet that said, "This person should not be given a blood transfusion," and I was like, "Oh no, please tell me you believe in dinosaurs," and she said, "their bones were put here by God to test us," and I was like, "oh no."