Yesterday, my husband had an encounter with a man who claimed that Jesus sent him to "spread the word" to P (my hubby)...and this encounter happened at work. WTF!!!This is my husband's email to his boss after the encounter. I sent this on to a couple of friends who are mental health professionals and both have said that this is a sort of "warning sign" of something worse to come. Names/locations have been replaced with dashes:
I just had one of the weirdest and most uncomfortable experiences at work - ever. Sitting here getting my day started someone comes up behind me, "Hey ----, I wanted to give you a message..." I thought it was ---- since he was speaking with a low voice, but no, it was some guy who works at ---- who I said hello to in the hallway when I walked in, but I didn't recognize him as anyone I have ever met. He had a ---- badge, but I couldn't see the name, he wore a white tshirt, jeans with a walkie-talkie on the pocket, and looked to be in the maintenance division - I'm guessing more building than garden. Anyway he told me that god had told him to come by and give me this message (insert flashing red light here), something about the meaning of life. He proceeds to crouch down and pull out a small piece of paper with the message on the top, and 3 tabs on the bottom labeled 1, 2 and 3. At this point I'm trying to be polite, he explains the first part, but I'm more trying to understand what's going on, or where the hidden camera is filming my reaction. He covers the basics like jesus is the son of god, god loves me and the way to heaven is through jesus (note that he didn't ask me if I wanted to go to heaven, which I think is completely presumptuous, but I digress). At the end he told me that he just wanted to share this with me like I could share things with him, like he could share directions to his house with me and I could share mine with him. I'm not sure if this was a metaphor for his sharing or a suggestion that I tell him where I live, regardless my patience had run out. At this point I'm just staring at him trying to decide how I want to end this. He was either at the end of his sermon or sensed I was, so he got up thanked me and left.
Anytime I've only had 1 cup of coffee in the morning I'm not 100% there yet, and while I wouldn't have been critical or engaged him in a debate, I would/should have told him I wasn't interested as I've unfortunately had to do before. I guess since I was at work and he's an employee here I felt like I shouldn't be rude. Regardless, I'm no more enlightened but a bit more peeved than I was before I talked to him; do I really look like that much of a sucker that you can just come up to me and tell me what I should think about such things?! I can only assume I'm the one he picked to fulfill his quota for the day. While I'm glad he thinks he has the answers for his life, I've already figured mine out for myself. Of course I would never be as brash to tell others to agree with what I think about the The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is, so I don't think I would have brought that up, but still, dude should keep for Sunday, or at least when he's not at work if you know what I mean. If they figure out who this guy is I would like HR to explain this to him, and I would like the opportunity to drop him an email explaining my above points. Let me know how I should follow up with this, I'm actually getting a bit more pissed as I drink more coffee.
So...how would you react to such an encounter? I told my husband that he should have given the dude directions to the freeway and told him to jump in front of the first semi he saw, insisting that Jesus would save him. I'm sorry but people like this are real assholes. Save it for your church buddies who give a rat's ass because I DON'T!
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