The Dali Grind: Surreal Stories about Real Jobs
Have you ever had a work experience that was funny, bizarre, or just plain awful? Share your experience so we can all laugh at those who frustrated you. Email us your stories at daligrind@att.net and we'll post the choicest ones. We don't publish real names of you, your coworkers or your employer.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
  STORY: The Time Machine

I work at an electronics store and I was talking to a fellow employee at another store. He told me that a guy [who we'll call John Doe]came in quite often and bought a lot of the same crap . . . 500 bucks or so worth of small electronic parts every month and always the same things. So one day [my coworker] asked him what he was building/keeps building . . . He said he builds time machines! He sells them online and he makes a fortune doing it. . . [A] few visits later he buys more of the same stuff and when he brings it to the counter [my coworker] asked him for the usual . . . name and address . . . But . . . there was not one but two John Does in our data base. [U]pon closer inspection the guy whose name appeared to be in there twice had different addresses in different towns . . . about 30 miles away from each other . . . John Doe wasn't surprised about that fact but he did say that he knew that guy. He claimed it was his alter self from a different time period. He says he has to be careful not to run into him because if will cause a paradox and the whole world might come to a end. He also said that he has known about him for a few years but doesn't know if his alter self knows that he lives in this same time period and also so close to him . . . [D]uring another visit he told this same employee that he wanted to warn him about a certain restroom in a restaurant in Lincoln NE. That if you entered it at a certain time you would go back in time . . . [W]hat is odd about this guy is he seems totally normal and has a family who comes in sometimes and they all seem normal . . .

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