Archived What's the most you've seen someone be so out of touch with reality? (AskVoat)
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Archived What's the most you've seen someone be so out of touch with reality? (AskVoat)
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[–] chilledmyspine 0 points 25 points 25 points (+25|-0) ago (edited ago)
My father, by far. But the coin incident was the farthest from reality he's ever been.
My dad collects coins, because his extremely Hungarian immigrant grandfather convinced him that the Bank (capitalizing it because to him, all banks are just one huge world bank) is determined to steal all his money from him, so he has to have a backup plan. This in and of itself isn't too extreme; plenty of people choose self-sustenance due to a distrust in government and economics, but the real kicker happened when he tried to roll his coins.
He has to order his coin rolls online because he doesn't want to go to the bank and get coin rolls because then the bank will know how much money he's hiding from them. I'm not kidding. Anyway, he ordered a bag of coin rolls and waited about a month for them to come before he started getting curious where they were. He asked my mom to check the order tracking while he was at work one day, which led to this conversation:
Mom: [Dad's name], it says here that the package made it to [town we live in] two weeks ago, but got sent back. It says you gave no delivery address.
Dad: Yeah, why would I do that? I don't want them to know where I live, they might tell everyone.
[–] MorpheusGodofDreams 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
fucking hilarious
[–] Audiohum ago
Amazing
[–] TremorAcePV ago
... This is what a P.O. Box is for. :|
[–] wild_injun 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
i do 95% of my postage dealings through po box. i avoid doorstep delivery when ever possible.