y2k goofball sighting

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Traveled to Colorado. Went through 7 Western states. No signs of UN, white buses, contrails, concentration camps, or convoys visible from highways. Just trucks, vacationers, brushfires, beautiful landscapes, and the occasional tornado (Salt Lake). Country appears peaceful, prosperous and placid.

However, to justify this post I'll recount the following definitive guidelines for identifying a y2k goofball. I met a perfect one!! You can only apply for "goofball sighting certification" if your experience includes ALL the following 3 criteria, occurring within 10 minutes of first y2k topic introduction. These are such cliches on this board I was amazed and thrilled to find them occurring in real life ! Guy is a government intelligence agency worker to boot !! (Was he pulling my leg ?? Didn't seem to be...)

1. the guy said "Hey I know how to handle it. I'll just get a rifle, and become a 'taker'!! [ This was such a "predator sighting" cliche on this board that I was floored to hear a regular person actually say it!!]

2. The guy then said "Hey now that I know who has food and supplies, I'm coming to your place!" I hadn't told him explicitly that I have anything, he inferred that. Ever noticed that if you express ANY kind of serious interest in y2k, people automatically label you a total #10 doomer in their minds ? Anyway, another board cliche!!

3. We took the kids (teenagers) in the group bowling. This same guy looks at the new electronic scoring machine in the lane and elbows me saying "Hey cool new scoring machine, BUT is it y2k compliant ? YUK YUK HAR HAR..."

I just had to share this, 3 major cliches within a few minutes of one another...

-- Ct Vronsky (vronsky@anna.com), August 13, 1999

Answers

Using those criteria, almost everyone I talk to is a "Y2K goofball."

-- Jim (x@x.x), August 13, 1999.

Ct Vronsky,
The guy probably has a bunker, a tank, a small selection of tactical nukes, enough food and water to last till Y3K and just wanted to sandbag....

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), August 13, 1999.

A goof ball is my neighbor! I saw her at the mailbox and stopped to say hello. I said I was on my way to Sam's and she asked if I was going there to buy food to hoard away for the computer problem I mentioned to her before. I told her I wasn't hoarding any food at all. She said she certainly was and she said she would appreciate it if I would do some of her food hoarding shopping while I was at Sam's as she was alergic to large enclosed spaces. She wanted 2 cases of microwave popcorn, extra butter.

-- Carol (Glear@usa.net), August 13, 1999.

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