Amusing deceit

[Mighara Sovmadhi]

One of the people who meanders about town, usually in his vehicle, stopped to talk to me today when he saw me walking along the road. In addition to repeating rants/rambles he'd delivered before, he told me not to be write about conspiracy theories but to start writing fantasy books (haha! if only he knew...) and said he'd written a fantasy story long ago.

I asked him what it had been about.

He said it was about a leper. Then the driver ended up telling me that the leper had a magic trinket that he carried with him to another world to which he "Rip-Van-Winkled" after hitting his head. The driver said it made people in the other world treat the leper like a god. "It was white gold or something," he muttered.

Now people have tried to expertly deceive me before (and succeeded!), but this attempt astonished me almost completely. I don't know how much it showed on my face or how much the driver might or might not have noticed it, but he didn't pursue the tale more, though this was due to his habit of gliding from topic to topic, tangent to tangent, with hard-won looping-back-to-the-start. So, though, it still amused me, the little scenario. Of all the stories for this guy to claim to have written...

In other news: a cloud of darkness has stretched across the Puget Sound area due to Canadian wildfires. Is this an Omen of the Apocalypse? Find out after these commercials...

[Linna Heartbooger]

It sounds a bit like when little kids are telling lies!
The guy's like "I wrote a fantasy story!"
You're like, "What it was about?"
Guy: <thinks of a good fantasy story he read once; it happens to be the Chronicles> It was like this...

...only, when he can't remember something, he goes, "It was white gold or something," giving away that he's recalling something someone else wrote, because...
Oooh, failure to recall a crucial story element.


I don't like being lied to. I, too, am a person who's had someone "put one over on me" a few too many times...

I'm enjoying your sense of humor that juxtapositions "find out after these commercials..." with a phenomena that's bothering you a bunch, Mighara.
...Isn't that just like the world that we live in, some days?

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Hahaha, what are the odds?

(You're sure he wasn't SRD, right?)

--A

[Mighara Sovmadhi]

I'm enjoying your sense of humor that juxtapositions "find out after these commercials..." with a phenomena that's bothering you a bunch, Mighara.
...Isn't that just like the world that we live in, some days?

For sure. This just in: in advance of an imminent solar eclipse, the Canadian LARP of Kevin's Dirt is making the moon and the sun look red. For analysis we go to...

(You're sure he wasn't SRD, right?)

I honestly wondered for a little, like I thought, "If this guy had a mustache/beard/whatnot, or if I saw a pic of SRD without one... would they look the same???" However if SRD has been spending the last 2 years chilling outside the local McD's panhandling for coffee and dog food, well

[Zarathustra]

However if SRD has been spending the last 2 years chilling outside the local McD's panhandling for coffee and dog food, well

You're saying that a beggar stopped you while you were walking down the street and claimed he'd written the Chronicles? That's pretty surreal. Did he also talk to you about moral quandaries?

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Well, if Mig suddenly disappears...

--A

[Mighara Sovmadhi]

He didn't wear an ochre robe but a bluish trenchcoat

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Still with us then.

--A

[balon!]

Pretty funny! Sounds like he'd fit right in at my old library, I can think of a couple patrons that would've loved to chat him up.

However if SRD has been spending the last 2 years chilling outside the local McD's panhandling for coffee and dog food, well

You're saying that a beggar stopped you while you were walking down the street and claimed he'd written the Chronicles? That's pretty surreal. Did he also talk to you about moral quandaries?

I hadn't thought of that...oh man!!