Theories

This is my 4th week at Palisades now, and I pretty much have no friends. Everyone is nice, but other than a little small talk in the minutes before our daily meeting, I have very little interaction with anyone....until yesterday.

We'll call her A. She is on the janitorial staff. She looks about mid-20's and the past few weeks we've only made small talk for a minute or two while she empties my trash twice a week. But yesterday she asked me how my weekend was. I said that I celebrated my 4th anniversary with my husband. That launched her into a 20 minute story about how it "would've" been her 3rd anniversary this summer, but she's going through a divorce. Her weekend was spent moving into her new apartment with her daughter. She has a 2-year-old, and she only got married because she got pregnant and they thought they should try to make their relationship work. I heard all about what a loser her husband is, I heard all about her income and bills and how is she going to make this work financially? It was quite a story of personal details for a first conversation. But, okay....she's friendly and I wouldn't mind a friend. Then she showed up today for more conversation.....and shit got weird.

It started off innocent enough; she is trying to figure out how to fit all her new furniture into her new tiny apartment. She drew out the floorplan and all her furniture and wanted my opinion about where everything should go. Honestly, it should go in a larger apartment. So I couldn't give her much help. She kept emphasizing that the couch HAD to go on this particular wall that faces the front door so that "in case anything happens, I can react quickly." That seemed paranoid to me, but I'm not a parent so maybe all parents think like that? Seemed somewhat reasonable I guess. So, okay, the couch will go on that wall.

But somehow, it turned into a conversation about not only protecting her daughter physically, but also protecting her identity.

A: It's really important to me that she's not in "the system," you know what I mean? Like, I'm in the system. You're in the system....

(to get power plant access you get fingerprinted and the FBI does a very extensive background check on you)

A: .....my husband is in the system. My mom is. All my siblings are. I need to find someone who's not in the system to take care of my daughter if it ever comes to that. Because then she can't be found. Except....what if she's ever kidnapped or something and she's not in the system. Then they won't have anything to go on to find her. Like her prints or anything. What do you think? Should I put her in the system, or not? What would you do?

Me: ......ummm.......I don't really know.......I'm not a parent so.........

A: Well, I guess it doesn't matter. Because as soon as she starts kindergarten, she'll be put in the system. The firemen come to the school and do it, you know? (no I don't.....) But maybe she can be sick that day if I decide I don't want her in the system *sly grin*

A: What I'm really afraid of is that Marshall Law isn't too far away. You heard about all those Walmart's that closed, right?

Me: No.

A: (copied from snopes.com, she basically quoted word-for-word the following) Several Walmart stores around the U.S. were abruptly closed due to what Walmart claimed were "plumbing problems." Walmarts in California, Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma all suddenly closed their doors, with Walmart corporate announcing that some of those stores would be shuttered for six months or more. But several aspects of these closures struck Walmart employees and shoppers as implausible. How was it that several stores in widely dispersed areas of the U.S. with nothing in common all needed to be shut down simultaneously in order to address "plumbing problems"? Why were all these stores closed with barely more than a few hours' notice to Walmart customers and workers? Why should rectifying plumbing issues require that these stores be closed for upwards of six months? Why the seeming lack of required city work permits and marked septic or plumbing trucks at the affected locations? It's because The closures are linked to the U.S. Army's Jade Helm military exercise scheduled for the summer which involves soldiers trying to operate undetected among civilian populations in areas where residents will be advised to report any suspicious activity. It's because it's really going to be the setting for the imposition of martial law, and the construction of so-called FEMA domes across Texas.

Me: .......ohhhhhh.........

A: I don't blame them though. Walmart is a good place for a FEMA dome. Like I've got it all planned out that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I plan to hide out in a Walmart. Those places are fully equipped with everything! You could bunker down there for a long time and be okay. I just need to find someone who's not in the system to take my daughter. My friend K isn't in the system. But she's not a fighter. She'd just give up and let the zombies bite her and my daughter. So I can't leave my kid with her. I need to find someone who's not in the system, AND who's a fighter!



.............how did this chick pass the 350 question psych evaluation that's required for plant access???