A few weeks ago I was out watering my front lawn. My neighbors new husband had just pulled up, and was looking at the sky. I was trying to pretend I didn't see him.
Finally, I hear him say my name. Then he yells to me from their driveway - "That's wrong"
I'm like 'whaaat"?
At this point he is making it obvious he was looking at contrails. Again he points at the sky and says "THAT IS wrong" they are spraying that from the sky.
I say - They, are not spraying things on us.
He says - I think you are wrong.
In the most polite way I say - okaaay. In a way that says you can believe that. Not sarcastically, just very politely because he's my neighbor. And again he tries to assert they are spraying stuff on us.
I tell him they aren't, and that the contrails happen because of ice crystals in the sky.
I say - You know how these types of clouds give you rainbows sometimes? I myself was looking at the sky to see if the clouds were spitting out a random rainbow.
He's like - well... I like to google things.
Again, very politely I say - okaaaay.
He says - just google ice crystals/contrails? And I'm like - yeah.
I go back into my house and recount this story to my husband because I am super frustrated I might have a problem with my neighbor now. I'm also super frustrated with the literacy in this country. Mr Snarkolepsy is like - well, he's not illiterate. He obviously reads things. Just the wrong things.
At that point I'm also bummed because surely to him, I'm the stupid idiot who doesn't know anything. So, I've sort of been trying to avoid them ever since.
Then this week she decided she was going to ignore my avoidance, and I have to admit - she's been nicer than I've ever known her almost. She has never even mentioned the contrail thing with her husband. Go figure.