Reality, 2: Libertarianism, 0

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

49. Ha! Exactly. In fact, my husband has a friend he's known since grade school who

cannot get enough of his own voice. My husband does, often, put the phone down, go away for 20 minutes, come back and pick up the phone, and the guy is still talking!

Kinda funny, but sad really. The poor guy has serious issues. Thinks he's been closely watched for the past 30 years or so, because aliens who want to contact earth know that he's the most intelligent human on the planet. So the aliens are watching him gearing up for the big pow wow, and the powers that be need to keep tabs on him so they'll know what he tells the aliens. He also believes he can affect the outcome of sporting events he watches on TV with his mind, natch.

His newest super power is that he can contact women by staring at their photos on a dating website and telepathically make plans to meet somewhere for lunch. He has already gone up to one woman in a public space who he swears had agreed, over the psychic line of course, to meet him, but she pretended not to know him because her mother had shown up and the meet-up had to be kept a secret from her.

Yeah, this'll end well. He usually goes for years doing relatively well, working as a self-employed auto mechanic and truck driver. But every ten years or so, he ends up strapped to a gurney in a psych ward.

So, I have sympathy for the guy. But still, if I had to sit next to him on a flight, I'm pretty sure I'd end up strangling him.