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MFM Minisode 266

February 14, 2022 /

This mini-sode features stories about unusual customer interactions, including a job offer to be an apocalypse farmer, a tense moment during a robbery, and a beloved rooster's tragic fate.

In the first story, a hardware store employee named Daniel recounts a peculiar encounter with a charming older man who offered him a job to run his off-grid farm in the hills, claiming it would be essential when society collapses. Daniel declined the offer, leading to the man's eventual disappearance.

The second story involves Jill, a retail worker in Australia, who witnessed an armed robbery while on the job. The situation escalated quickly, revealing undercover police involvement and leaving her shaken but ultimately leading her to pursue a career in photography.

Lastly, Sage shares a heartfelt tale about McNugget, a beloved rooster in Issaquah, Washington, who was tragically killed by a dog. The community mourned his loss with a vigil and memorial, celebrating his life as a town fixture.

These stories highlight the strange and often humorous interactions that can occur in everyday life, emphasizing the importance of community and connection.

TLDR

This mini-sode shares bizarre customer stories, including an apocalypse job offer and a beloved rooster's tragic fate.

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Hello. Hello and welcome to my favorite matter, the mini-sode. It's fast. It's mini.
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It's just tiny and they're all your stories, so you're going to like it. Yeah. Want to go first?
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Sure. I really love this email. I'm just going to start by saying that. I'm excited.
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The subject line of this is job offer on the apocalypse farm. Howdy. In this 262 mini-sode, there was a weird customer interaction story, so I decided to share mine.
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I worked for way too long at a chain hardware store in town. While there, I became a member of the garden section team with no knowledge of plants.
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And then in parentheses, I would eventually be promoted to sales lead too. I never understood why, but I took the position for the raise.
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While working the sales floor, a man in his 60s or so asked me for help loading up bags of soil onto a cart.
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This was pretty common and it's spelled P-E-R-T-T-Y. I love it. Which could have been a mistake, but I really enjoy it.
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This was pretty common for customers that were not able to load up soil for a variety of reasons or just didn't want to get dirty.
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I didn't mind. Doing this sort of grunt work kept me off the cash register and kept me in shape.
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This man was generally polite and had this ability to charm other customers into conversation with him while checking out at the register.
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While he was chatting with other customers, he'd brag about being a semi-retired professor in England, having multiple homes and cars, and how he was just in town at his summer home near my college town.
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He soon became a regular, and I'd see him every week or two, and seemingly would always be the one to help him.
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It got to the point where he would wait or ask for me to help him out loading up soil, picking up fertilizers, plants, etc.
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Again, I don't know plants, but I can read a package or look up information online like a champ.
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We'd chat a bit about nothing while I'd help him out, but it never seemed like we became friendly enough for what happened next.
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Oh, no. One day I'm loading up soil for him and he says, Daniel, I want to make you an offer.
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I have a farm in the hills and I want you to run it. It's completely off the grid with solar panels, a creek with clean water, on-site filtrations for the water just to be safe, and rations of canned and frozen food for at least a decade.
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Damn. Right? I want you to live there and tend the garden and the grounds so there's always fresh produce.
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Thinking he was joking, I asked, what does this pay? He said, I could pay you. Hell, I could pay you any price, but money isn't going to matter soon.
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You'll have everything you need on my property to keep busy and entertained. Plus, when society crashes, you wouldn't have anywhere to spend money anyway.
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Damn. I politely declined being this stranger's live-in apocalypse farmer. Live-in apocalypse farmer.
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This is so good. Saying I was in school, a band, and stuff I didn't want to walk away from.
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Really, it was because of, well, all of it. Yeah, yeah. He took this well, but came in a few weeks later and pitched the job one more time as a, quote, final offer.
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I said no again. And after that, he stopped asking for me and waiting for me to be free to help him.
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He'd still come in for stuff, right? He'd still come in for stuff, either getting help from other employees or loading up his stuff himself for a while.
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But eventually, I never saw him again. I wonder still if there was a farm, if there is, if he's there now, or if anything he's ever said was true.
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Daniel. Oh, that's good. Apocalyptic farmer partner. How did you find land with a creek with clean running water?
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Right. And how do you know it's clean? I lived, we had a creek that was behind our house.
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And I would never say that that water was clean. for any what what it's from the mountains
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like at the top of the mountains the snow and the ice and everything actually this let figure out where this farm is so we can also go to Apocalypse Farm when I mean it There was a fucking apocalypse I mean yeah Years ago That idea though that it like you going to come and be my employee
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even though nothing's really happening at the moment. Right. I'd rather go fight the zombies.
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Yeah. And maybe stick around with people like more than you. Right. Weird old professor that brags.
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Right. Too much. It's hard to start conversations with strangers just to tell them things about themselves because they want to tell things about themselves.
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Right. It's just like if you're an accomplished professor in England, that those people I find in this I'm basing this completely on watching like all creatures great and small.
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They don't brag that much because they are accomplished. Like they feel the satisfaction.
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They don't need to take it down to the hardware store. Nobody cares. Truly. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, not with the apocalypse right around the corner. I'm trying to buy fucking Alvarez right now.
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Friend, can you fucking professor whatever? Leave me the fuck alone. I'm trying to survive.
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God, like anyone. That's right. I'm not going to read you the title. Hello, beautiful humans and non-human pals.
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Big fan, blah, blah. Been listening since episode four. I know. Go me. Yeah. Wow.
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Let us say it. Anyway, fine. You're mad. Let me start by saying guns were essentially banned in Australia in 1996, with very few exceptions like law enforcement and farmers.
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Love that fact. Handle it. I know Americans are used to guns, but Aussie millennials are not.
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I'm 31 and I've never seen a gun up close until this day. So in April 2020, right as the pandemic was starting to impact daily life in Australia,
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I'm at my sales job for a big box store. Masks had just been mandated a few days before, and yet another entitled douchebag comes in
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bearing his germy face holes for all to see. I sass him until he begrudgingly accepts a disposable mask.
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There's a little passive aggressive banter and he chooses his items. As I'm looking down at my POS system, I hear him say, oh, fuck.
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I look up directly into his eyes as we both realize there's a gun pointed at his head.
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This is like 2 p.m. on a Tuesday and I'm on goddamn minimum wage. Yeah, for real.
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We're face to face, barely a meter apart. My eyes refocus and realize there are in fact four guns drawn on this man.
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Everyone freezes. The men holding the guns are all heavily tatted with shaved heads and beards.
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I'm heavily tattooed, so I don't like to pigeonhole people. But naturally, I assume I'm about to witness a biker gang hit.
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Two of the men holster their weapons and throw the man to the ground. He's screaming, I didn't do anything over and over, thrashing around on the floor.
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They pull out a wallet overflowing with cash out of his pocket and a gun from his waistband.
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It's only then that the attackers identify themselves as undercover police. this all happened in what feels like ages but was probably in fact 30 seconds
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i grab my radio and start paging any available goddamn adult get here fucking now
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my manager comes running i stutter they're arresting him there were guns then absentmindedly turn and greet the next customer waiting with a soft how can i help you
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he stares at me in disbelief i burst into tears and race for the break room How can I help you?
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It's just doing the automatic thing. It's like, anyway, is this what I should do now?
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Next. This person's good at customer service. Yeah. Okay. It goes on. About 10 minutes later,
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a man in his sixties dressed in fishing clothes comes in and explains what I just,
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what I just witnessed was half of his undercover team arresting a suspicious driver that had
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been clocked going 180 kilometers or 111 miles. Thank you for that. Oh, yeah. Per hour.
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They'd been following him for 700 kilometers, 435-ish miles, waiting for a safe time to
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nab him. The other half of his squad had surrounded the car in the car park, arrested two more
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men, and seized eight kilograms, 17.64 pounds, of cocaine and some guns. 17 pounds of cocaine.
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That's a lot of pounds. Yeah, that's like a toddler. That's like four bags of sugar of cocaine.
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I never felt safe at that job again. This was only the first in a long line of insane pandemic madness we witnessed in my store.
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We've had everything from teenagers with axes to organized gangs sweeping entire departments in minutes.
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Shit. Yes, the company paid for my therapy. Good. That's where my fucking hooray comes in.
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Now, in November 2021, after 14 years in that fluorescent hellscape, 14 fucking years at a job, can you imagine?
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Shit, yeah. Which is how many years in? Well, that would be like 19. Yeah. In metric.
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I quit to pursue my dream of full-time portrait photography. It's kind of a stupid time to become a wedding photographer, but it's still easily the best decision I've ever made.
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I'll take my chaotic, starving artist life over wage slavery any day. What happened was super traumatic, but it was the push I needed to start working on my crippling anxiety.
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I've since received an ADHD, ASD diagnosis and started medication. I'm learning to work with my differences rather than against them.
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Thank you for all you do to normalize mental health, therapy and medication. Be nice to retail and hospow workers.
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You never know what they been going through Oh yeah Stay sexy and don sass an armed drug dealer unless he deserves it jill p everyone always asks he was buying an iphone and a fitbit
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jesus christ so jill worked at like either a target or a macy's or a walmart it's not better
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like it seems like yeah something but like with tech stuff so yeah yeah damn maybe it was like a
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Best Buy or the Australian equivalent. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Terrifying. So scary.
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And also it is like, it's a great reminder is in it. It's because everyone is going insane and so stressed out and so scared.
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And everyone's been convinced lately that we have to hate other people and fight other
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people and whatever. But those people taking it are retail workers and people that have to like Starbucks workers.
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Totally. Yeah. hospitality workers and retail and fucking minimum wage jobs. Yeah. Be polite. Be nice.
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Be polite. And then also know everybody is really, everybody is really dealing with some stuff right
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now. And tip well, I think. If you can. Yeah. And also just don't take it personally. Just know
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deep down if somebody's being a real prick, they probably deserve to be arrested. Is that helpful?
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Does that help? It does. It's comforting in this time of need. Right. Well, I'm not going to read the subject line because it gives it away.
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Guys, don't tell the end in your subject line. Just basic storytelling. Save the good stuff for the ending.
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Okay. Hey, friends. This has nothing to do with anything. I just think it's a great story.
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So my dad traveled to Russia in 1991 as a part of a diplomatic trip to figure out if certain nuclear waste laws and policies were in okay shape after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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And then in parentheses, it says, side note, is my dad a spy? My dad said that if they wanted access to any information, then they had to bribe a government official or the local mob boss.
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So he's in some town in the middle of nowhere near a nuclear plant, and this Russian mob boss walks into the meeting room with bodyguards and an entourage.
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Without saying a word, he takes a huge knife out from somewhere and slams the tip of the blade into the table so it's sticking straight up.
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My dad, having some questions and possibly some concerns, looks to the translator who says,
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He's showing you that he's unarmed. You should do the same. So my dad makes a big show of reaching into his pocket and takes out a tiny Swiss army knife.
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He unfolds it, sticks the tip into the table, scowling fiercely. The mob boss bursts into laughter, orders them both drinks.
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Yes, in a meeting. And they were best bros. Stay sexy and let's all just avoid bringing knives into meetings in the first place.
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Abby. That is hilarious. is. Humor. Humor is the key to all diplomacy. Oh my God. Let people know that you see them
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and you think they're a tiny bit ridiculous. It's a good power move. This is called Real Estate Agents Beware. And it just starts. This story came to me as a local
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true cautionary tale from my real estate teacher, who is the managing broker at his office.
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There was a young agent who was hosting an open house in a quiet neighborhood. At closing time, the agent began locking up when a final customer walks up seemingly out of nowhere.
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This agent explained to him that the house was now closed and she could not let him in.
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He begged her to show him the house. He told her that he just needed to see the basement and that he would leave after seeing the basement.
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The agent politely declined and told him he can come next week during the next open house.
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The man was visibly angry, but agreed and left. The next week came, but the agent had a bad feeling about that man.
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So she asked another agent who was a strong martial artist to cover her open house.
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Good. Sure enough, the man came back to the house again at closing time. Upon meeting this new agent, he asked where the other girl was.
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He became irate that the original agent was not there. He stormed off down the street with no car to be seen.
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A couple weeks later, while they had the news playing in their real estate office,
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my teacher heard screaming from the other room. Both agents were screaming, that's him, that's the man from the open house.
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That was the day that Dennis Rader was finally caught. BTK had been stalking the young agent for weeks,
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but was finally caught after 30 years before he could finish the job. Stay sexy and trust your instincts and don't get murdered.
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No name. I mean can you the irate that she wasn't there and the irate that she wouldn't you're crying
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wouldn't let him in it's it's I I'm always grateful when the story is I had the feeling
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and I listened to myself right and I I did the thing that maybe other people thought was weird
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yeah I was fucking right and I was this is more than right the danger like we are all animals you
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can sense danger off of other people. It doesn't mean you should be paranoid and like always being
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reactive or whatever, but you should be paying attention and stuff like that. That's a really
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smart person who went, why would you want to see the basement? Why do I have to be here?
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Why are you here when no one else is here? Why are you angry that I'm not letting you in?
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And the thing too about, I kind of love the like inconveniencing someone else because like,
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instead of being polite I like Oh I just go back I don want to intervene in anyone or make them work on a Sunday in the same way that it like get someone to walk you to your car at night if you scared like after work Yes You can you can ask someone and they be hopefully understanding and and take you like they be understanding
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I think it's just like such a huge thing that she she trusted her instincts so much that she got other people involved.
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I just didn't think it was going to be BTK, the one of the worst serial killers and one of the worst.
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like he was a torture he was yeah he was craven beyond belief yeah and he had killed people in
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basements before too yes and killed children in children it's like oh everything about that thank
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I can't read you the subject line, it gives it away. Hi friends. This past summer, my family and I were visiting one of our favorite spots on the West Coast, Lincoln City, Oregon.
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This was our first outing since COVID began. And since we were all vaxxed and staying masked, we decided a little time at the beach would do us all good.
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We've been heading to the shore for as long as I can remember. And each time we go, we stop at the same local chocolate shop for amazing homemade chocolate.
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They really stretched out amazing. Amazing. This year, as we walked over from our hotel, we could see that the open sign on the shop was not lit.
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But the store hours indicated that they were open and we could see the owner inside.
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The door was not locked, so I decided to stick my fully masked keywords head in and quickly check if they were open.
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When I leaned my body in, I found the owner on the phone. As to not disturb their conversation, I quietly mouthed, note, under my mask,
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Are you closed? To which she shrugged back, not taking a break from her conversation.
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What? At this point, I felt like I was intruding, but I was committed. This time I pointed to the cash register and quietly mouthed, note again under my mask,
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are you closed? And again, she said, what? I realized the mask faux pas I was making and that she couldn't lip read through my double
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layered mask that was up above the nose and below the chin where it belongs. Good for you.
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And thought for a second on how to gesture, are you closed? with half my body that was leaning in the doorway.
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What I came up with in the moment was this. I pointed my index finger right at her,
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and then I proceeded to bring my index finger to my throat and slash it slowly across my neck in a horizontal motion.
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Oh my God. All while making direct eye contact and still mouthing, are you closed?
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Oh my God. Her eyes lit up with fear, And I figured I must really be disturbing her phone call.
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So I just nodded and slowly headed back out onto the sidewalk where my family was waiting.
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I told my family they must be closed and made it a good 10 steps before realizing I just threatened to kill the shop owner.
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I'm going to fucking cry. Oh, can you imagine that woman's fear? She's just like, what the fuck?
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What the fuck? I turned to tell my sister. You're also pointing at you first. You're dead.
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And you're where? a mask so there is a real like yes there's a real anonymous element to the threat oh my
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i turned to tell my sister what i'd done when the door of the chocolate shop flung open and
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the owner yelled um excuse me and had to convince her and my stunned family that i was incredibly
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sorry i wasn't threatening her i had just lost all semblance of social skills in the last year
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and a half of lockdown and that we really just wanted to know if they were open or closed.
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I'm not sure she believed me, but she did let us in to make our purchases. And when we circled back to the shop an hour later, the open sign was bright and lit.
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Oh my God. Mondays and Thursdays have been a light in the dark for the past few years as I earned
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my doctorate. Wow. And there are few things in life that bring me as much joy as hearing the intro song to
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a new MFM episode. Oh, thank you for being you. stay sexy and get the vaccine so I don't accidentally threaten anyone else.
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Caitlin. Beautifully written. Beautiful job, Caitlin. Wow. Are you close? That is epic.
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And it's so funny because as soon as she was like, I lost my social skills in the air and I just had flashbacks to the first time I hung out with people.
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And it's like, yeah, you forget how to communicate at all. Well, I like to tell the story of Alejandra, who works on the show with us.
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Yeah. And when we had our Halloween party. Right. When I first met her, I yelled, you're so tall into her face because I assumed seeing her on Zoom.
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Yeah. That I knew how I assumed how tall she was. Right. She's a little bit taller than average.
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It's not the kind of thing you should be yelling at people. It was so embarrassing.
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And I was like, oh, my God, what am I doing? Oh. It was so embarrassing. Oh, the times.
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Oh, the times. Alejandra is the one, by the way, who goes through the emails and reads all of these and brings them to us.
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And she's killing it and doing a great job. So she's doing such a good job. Yeah.
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Like I have so many that I want to reuse. OK. Yeah. I'm not going to read you the title of my last one.
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Dear Karen Georgia MFM team and assorted pets I found news articles for this story But in the spirit of a hometown I wanted to write down my account as I remember it from my senior year of high school
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before actually reading the articles. Don't worry, I will correct myself if something is super wrong.
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I love that. Like I'm gonna write it down and remember it and then I'll fact check.
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Yeah, then we'll see. Yeah. Well, the brutal crime took place in 2015. I need to go back a
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bit for everyone to understand the gravity and emotional uphill of the situation.
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I grew up in what used to be a relatively small town about 20 miles outside of Seattle called Issaquah.
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We have a charming little downtown with restaurants, a theater, a million-dollar quartet, and next to normal open there.
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I don't know what that means to you. Those are two movies, I believe. Okay. And at the very end of our main street, we had a Staples office supply, a drive-thru espresso stand, and a farm store tucked behind it.
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Growing up, everyone knew about McNugget the rooster. He escaped from the farm store sometime around 2002 and had just been roaming around since.
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He was a total townie. He used to fly up to the coffee shop to get handouts from the always willing baristas,
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sleep in the trees, lining the streets downtown, and patrol the Staples parking lot in his free time.
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He even had a Seattle Times article published about him back in 2013. Oh, yeah. A pillar of the community, if you will.
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It was April of 2015 when tragedy occurred. I remember the news reverberating around school that morning.
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McNugget had been murdered. It feels unreal typing this out right now that this is something that actually happened, but it was big news.
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Apparently, a woman called the espresso stand McNugget's daytime number to let them know that she had seen, all caps, a dog running off with the rooster in its mouth.
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Yeah. The woman then tried to chase down the dog, but was unsuccessful. At first, the community was in denial.
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Perhaps the woman was mistaken, or maybe she had seen a dog running off with a different black rooster.
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But when McNugget didn't show up to the espresso stand for his breakfast the next morning, our worst fears were confirmed.
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Following days, I believe there was a small candlelight vigil held at the espresso stand.
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And in the following months a shrine popped up built in his honor A local artist painted a picture of him with a board next to it for everyone to write down sentiments about McNugget
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Someone else built a metal sculpture of him. And all of those things are still at the espresso shop to this day.
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Our only solace was knowing that he was at least a 13-year-old rooster. When many don't live past eight.
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And at least he went out with a bang. I have since moved to Michigan for school and work.
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But every time I'm back home, I make sure to go get a coffee from McNuggets place.
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I love this story. Thank you all for everything you do to make this podcast, as well as all the others on
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the network happen. MFM 100% got me through grad school and through the pandemic.
00:29:24
Also, I have pictures that I took of the McNugget memorial, but I couldn't attach them to the
00:29:27
website form. Let me know if you want to see him. Yes, McNugget. Stay sexy and live free like McNugget did.
00:29:36
Signed Sage. Live free, baby. I love. Well, you know what? It's cool because that kind of small town stuff, it's like these days, it doesn't happen that much anymore.
00:29:49
So when it can and does happen and it's like it's about the community. Totally. It's just about people being like, this is our chicken.
00:29:56
He escaped from the farm store. It's like Lil Spastion. Yeah, we're going to support this guy and let him live free.
00:30:04
Like, go, McNugget. Like, everyone is, like, living vicariously. I love that during his free time, he would talk.
00:30:12
God, I would go meet him and make him be my friend. His daytime number is the espresso stand.
00:30:18
That's genius. Oh, McNugget. So good. Love you. This was on video if you want to watch it on the McNugget.
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On the McNugget. The fan cult. she's renaming it T.M. Oh, wait. Sorry, really quick.
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I just got a cease and desist order from the McDonald's Corporation. No, we're not.
00:30:40
Ding dong. What? That lawyer works really fast. That was so fast. Did I bring a McRib?
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Episode Highlights

  • The Apocalypse Farm Offer
    A customer offers a young employee a strange job on his off-grid farm.
    “I want you to run it.”
    @ 03m 50s
    February 14, 2022
  • Undercover Police Arrest
    A chaotic scene unfolds as undercover police arrest a man in a store.
    “I never felt safe at that job again.”
    @ 10m 45s
    February 14, 2022
  • The BTK Connection
    A real estate agent narrowly avoids danger from a notorious serial killer.
    “Stay sexy and trust your instincts and don't get murdered.”
    @ 16m 56s
    February 14, 2022
  • The Chocolate Shop Incident
    An awkward attempt to ask if a shop is closed leads to a misunderstanding.
    “I just threatened to kill the shop owner.”
    @ 23m 06s
    February 14, 2022
  • The Tragic Tale of McNugget
    A beloved rooster named McNugget was tragically murdered, leaving the community in shock.
    “It feels unreal typing this out right now that this is something that actually happened.”
    @ 27m 47s
    February 14, 2022
  • Community Vigil for McNugget
    After McNugget's death, the community held a candlelight vigil to honor him.
    “Following days, I believe there was a small candlelight vigil held at the espresso stand.”
    @ 28m 29s
    February 14, 2022
  • A Tribute to McNugget
    A shrine was built in McNugget's honor, showcasing the community's love.
    “A local artist painted a picture of him with a board next to it for everyone to write down sentiments about McNugget.”
    @ 28m 34s
    February 14, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • I want you to run it.
    MFM Minisode 266
  • Wow.
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  • Oh my God.
    MFM Minisode 266
  • Stay sexy and trust your instincts and don't get murdered.
    MFM Minisode 266
  • That is epic.
    MFM Minisode 266
  • Stay sexy and live free like McNugget did.
    MFM Minisode 266

Key Moments

  • Job Offer03:50
  • Police Arrest10:45
  • Serial Killer Encounter16:56
  • Miscommunication23:06
  • Community Vigil28:29
  • McNugget Memorial28:34
  • Podcast Appreciation29:18
  • Stay Sexy31:06

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