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Many years ago I worked with a textbook pathological liar and narcissist. His stories were many and varied.

He lived with a harem of women who pleasured him at all hours. He divorced his wife, but he was such a good lover, she begged him to reconcile, so he remarried her.

Once a customer happened to be a WWII Medal of Honor recipient, and gifted him a rifle used to kill many Germans as a gift for his good work as a food delivery expert.

One time he delivered food, and the recipient said, "Dan, you are so good at this, here is a $10,000 tip."

He could have easily received a PhD, but instead dropped out of community college after a single semester, because college was beneath him. His professors all gave him A's and cried when he dropped out.

He drank 2 liters of Mountain Dew every single night to keep his energy levels high. Without Mountain Dew, he would die.

He had been asked numerous times to manage all of the region's chain restaurants, but was satisfied to be a delivery boy, as this was his true calling.



This man's stories sound fitting of a president.

One thing I miss about high school was being around guys like this. There was always some dude who said he secretly had a top secret mission to Afghanistan over the summer and the military was begging him to officially join when he turned 18. It's interesting how no matter where you are in the US, there's a guy with a similar backstory of being a total badass who chooses to be humble and normal because the world couldn't handle his true power.


You can still have that in any expat bar anywhere anytime..


This is interesting. I've worked with people like this, met people like this, and heard of people like this. But one thing you're missing is this guy didn't claim to be a highly skilled killer or ex-military. I wonder why. That's the most common trope I normally see.


Spy as well. I've met multiple expert spies in backpacker hostels around the world.


The best part of being a spy is telling everyone you're a spy - Sterling Archer from Archer probably


In years past I would have simply looked down on someone like that.

Nowadays I'm more inclined to pity them. It sounds like he's trapped in a pretty shitty state of being, even if it's a prison of his own making.


Pity them, but from a safe distance. Many of them are very dangerous.


Basically “good will hunting “


drinking 2l of mountain dew per day is the least crazy thing in that list.


Probably the only thing that was true too.


Love it.




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