My neighbor the janitor made me rethink finding proof for anything

I was talking to Mr. Garcia who cleans our building about chemtrails last Tuesday and he just shrugged and said he trusts what he sees with his own eyes more than any video online. He told me about finding a sealed box of old school records from the 70s in the basement that showed enrollment numbers way off from what the district claims. How do you even verify something when official records and personal observations don't line up?

2 comments

2 Comments

joelthomas20d ago

Hang on though, I gotta push back on something. That sealed box of records from the 70s he found in the basement isn't automatically the truth just because it's old and was hidden. I mean, who knows why it was sealed or if the numbers in there were even official to begin with. Maybe they were draft numbers or some internal estimate that never got finalized. Trusting your eyes is one thing, but assuming a random dusty box is more accurate than the district's public records is a leap unless you can actually verify where those old numbers came from and how they were kept. You'd need to cross-check with other sources like old newspaper articles or yearbooks from that time to see if anything lines up.

michaela1620d ago

My buddy Mark found a box of old receipts and ledgers in his grandpa's attic, not from some official district but from his grandpa's hardware store from the late 70s. He was dead sure it proved his grandpa sold way more snowblowers than the store's tax records showed, like a 40 percent difference in one winter. We spent a whole weekend digging through old town newsletters and the local paper from back then, and it turned out his grandpa was a disaster at record-keeping. Half those receipts were for repairs or rental returns he miscounted as sales.