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| I may have made a new enemy! Excellent! |
by LongFist |
2015-06-16 14:36:45 |
The guy was doing what *looked* like a muslim prayer, but he was pointing North, not East, towards Mecca. I fired up Glass's compass, and sure enough he's pointing North. (I'm not sure what the penalty for praying in the wrong direction is, or if there is one.) I calmly waited for him to finish, then as he was getting up told him he was facing North, not East. Naturally, he wanted to bicker - that's what these guys are good for, apparently, it's part of their culture I guess. He wanted to say that Glass was malfunctioning and that I shouldn't believe what that devil's instrument was telling me when I countered with "Upon which side of this building does the Sun come up?" He stopped short, hand upheld between us, and froze. "Common sense - and I'm not saying you *have* any, mind you - but common sense tells you that the Sun rises in the East - over there (pointing East). Go ahead, step out and go over to the breezeway, and see for yourself. The Sun sets on the opposite side of the building - that's West if you aren't too keen on directions - and it's over there right now. Hurry and go look or you'll miss it!"
Chagrin flowed into his face, as did frustration and pent-up anger. I calmly reminded him that I didn't *need* to inform him of where East was, but thought it might make a difference. (Maybe it doesn't.) He calmly strolled out of the bathroom back down the breezeway and out ot the line, where he belongs. No more emotion, no more bickering, no more challenges. But I took two pics of him during the "conversation" and got his badge number as well, just in case. His shift supervisor might be interested, just in case he does something stupid a little later on.
I still wonder what the punishment is for praying in the wrong direction. Do the prayers just not find Allah, or do they arrive 90 degrees out of phase, or do they arrive at Allah *backwards*? I'll bet Allah would listen more closely to *those* prayers, looking to see if they had any secret messages backwards-masked into them!
The last of these chums tried to go all jihad with a hand drill in a paint booth (trying to use the hand drill to arc/spark/ignite the paint residues and cause an explosion "to take you all to Allah") and got beaten severely (by teammates) while the other workers "stabilized" the situation to avoid the explosion, and turned him over to the authorities, where he disappeared without a trace. I'm not sure this guy knows the story of the previous one... |
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Nope. Not an enemy. | by LongFist | 2015-07-27 13:55:04 |
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