#bc it is very fun for me and mormons like to preach so its basically enrichment for them

[a-purely-objective-frog]

As someone who works retail in a city with A Lot of mormons, in a store sandwiched between a mormon bookstore and a mormon-run ice cream place, I play a game with myself where I pretend I have only the vaguest of ideas what mormonism is to see how people explain it to me.

(Technically I was raised mormon but I never was a mormon for autism reasons. It's complicated, but I had to go to church for 18 years so I have the rights and information to lightly psychologically torture these nice people.)

Today I had a really odd one. Lady comes in with a bunch of family photos and a few church photos, including one of Russell Nelson, the current mormon prophet. She's chatty, we are talking about her photos while I ring her up when I see my opportunity.

Is this grandpa?

Oh, no, no. That's the president.

(For those of you not in the know, mormons referring to the prophet as "president lastname" is pretty common. Referring to them simply as "the president" is Not Typical but I can see how she got her wires crossed. I try to act appropriately confused.)

...of the PTO?

No, no, sorry, my church has a president. We call the prophet the president, sometimes.

Oh neat! Does your church also have a vice president?

And she crashed to BiOS. I have never actually seen a person crash this hard. I'm sure she's a busy woman with six kids at home and has been running errands all day but she crashed Hard. I actually felt bad. She opened her mouth and shut it without speaking twice, before busting up in laughter, like, semi-hysterically. Then she took her stuff and left, and when I told her to have a good day she didn't respond. Weird, considering how chatty she had been. The vibe was Off.

That is normally not how this game goes. Usually, they are very nice to me and try their best to explain themselves/invite me to their ward, and we play the Politeness game. Idk what her problem was, but I hope she's ok.