{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Jim Dimitri (jimbo)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-11 06:02:45 UTC","author_name":"Jim Dimitri (jimbo)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/jimbo","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/411798","html":"@cabal<\/span><\/a><\/span> Well, what happened was I happened to ACCIDENTALLY make a little too much eye-contact while passing his table, and he proceeded to try and sell me some of the Scientology books - the dictionary of spelling, or some such nonsense. I listened politely (big mistake!), but kept saying, "Well, no, I wouldn't really be able to use these, I already speak English" - "Oh, but they help with teaching OTHER people English! You're a mother, right?" "...no?" And so on. And so I finally said, hey, money's short, I gotta be moving on, thanks for the info anyway, and I skedaddled. Later, when I passed his table (not hard to do, in such a small hall) with a bag of merch, he singled me out from the crowd to question my choice of purchase. "Oh, I thought you said you didn't have any money? So how did you buy all of that?" As if, you know, NOT buying his cult's books was some kind of personal insult. Also, he smelled and looked like he hadn't bathed in days; definitely unsettling."}