i went to the ATM and let a guy go before me. he was pretty old and he couldn't get the machine working. he turned to me and his eye's looked like they had a serious case of cataracts and asked me questions about how to use the ATM. ..and just then a bank employee popped out and started helping him.
in his defense, they had just got a new machine where you put your card in horizontally. when they got to the part you where you put your PIN, i thought uh oh, he won't remember it. but he did and everything went ok.
afterwards, while i was talking to the employee another woman jumped in front of me to use it. i was asking the bank person that if he had forgot his PIN, if she would've turned him away or would she have taken him inside the bank and figured it out. and then if she had discovered that he was someone with alzheimer's and was a-wall, take the appropriate steps to get him back home?
obviously by the way she responded this hasn't happened to her yet. but in this universe i was instructing her about something that given enough time will eventually happen to her. and i surmised in an alternate universe the old guy was me, and i was a time traveler instructing her how to help myself in the future.
there's always an opportunity to teach people things when you pretend to time travel.
in his defense, they had just got a new machine where you put your card in horizontally. when they got to the part you where you put your PIN, i thought uh oh, he won't remember it. but he did and everything went ok.
afterwards, while i was talking to the employee another woman jumped in front of me to use it. i was asking the bank person that if he had forgot his PIN, if she would've turned him away or would she have taken him inside the bank and figured it out. and then if she had discovered that he was someone with alzheimer's and was a-wall, take the appropriate steps to get him back home?
obviously by the way she responded this hasn't happened to her yet. but in this universe i was instructing her about something that given enough time will eventually happen to her. and i surmised in an alternate universe the old guy was me, and i was a time traveler instructing her how to help myself in the future.
there's always an opportunity to teach people things when you pretend to time travel.
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