Post by ppy18 on Nov 18, 2011 13:26:18 GMT -5
yesterday while going to the post office i passed a teen aged boy walking along the street. when he saw my car he stuck his hand out indicating that he was hitchhiking. i passed him by but my conscience got the best of me so i turned around and went back to get him. he was a very mannerly high school kid who had missed his bus and had no one he could call for a ride so he started walking home. it was pretty cold here in atlanta with a biting wind and this kid had no jacket. he was also about 6 miles from home so he was grateful for the ride and i was glad i turned around to give him a lift. the area he was walking in is a very affluent area of the city and he made the observation that many people in nice expensive cars had passed him by without even slowing down. so i consoled him about getting picked up by the least expensive car in the area, a 2001 ford focus station wagon, which as of 4 days ago has no heat. from there we started talking about the occupy atlanta movement and how much we supported it. i commented that i would like to go down to the occupy site this weekend to try and dig up some support for a protest we were having at the cdc. he asked me why we were protesting and i told him that we were trying to get the cdc to release the results from a study done several years ago of morgellons disease. i expected that blank stare response that i typically get when i mention morgellons but this kid didn't even blink. he said " my step dad is an EMT and we have been pulling fibers out of his shoulder for months. we kid him that we are pulling alien probes out of him." i almost drove through a stop sign i was so surprised. this kid not only recognized the name and knew the symptoms, he even referenced aliens. it was sorta surreal. i gave the kid my number and gave him a few websites to go to for further information but i didn't get any personal info from him because it happened so fast and i was so surprised that i didn't think about it till i had driven away. all i know is his name was nick and where he attends school. i'm pretty sure i could find his house again but it probably wouldn't be a good idea to pop in for a visit unannounced. i did tell nick to have his stepfather call me if he had any questions or wanted to join me at the cdc so maybe i'll hear from him. the whole thing was just so random that it blew my mind. how many of us are out there unregistered and unaware that we need their voice to increase our power and our position on this matter? how do we find these people and bring them into the fold?