I suppose that our family is not exactly what you would call…normal.
No, I am not trying to be mean or anything but I am simply stating some facts here.
I come from a clan of odd human beings who failed to be able to see the error in their thinking. More often than not, I find myself giving up and walking away from my family members rather than trying to have a long conversation with them. I guess that is for the best, after recently letting my Grandma talk my ear off for several minutes. I decided that she really needed some company after all this time in isolation and dropped by my Grandma’s home last weekend, and that’s when she proceeded to spend the entire afternoon telling me about her heating, cooling, and air quality control system. If that sounds dry and mundane, let me tell you that hearing about someone else’s indoor air quality control plan and related temperature failures absolutely does not spark imagination, and however, it sure seems like her heating, cooling, and air quality control issues have caused quite an interesting narrative in her head. Namely, my Grandma now thinks that her forced air gas furnace, air conditioner unit, and thermostat have teamed up against her to work in tandem with the aliens who intend on invading our planet. Somehow, she got it in her head that the thermostat was listening to her conversations and the forced air gas furnace was radioing reports to UFOs around the planet, when I proposed that we call a heating, cooling, and air quality control specialist to check things out. She told myself and others that the HVAC dealership was operated by aliens, too.