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Am I the Genius?

What Ridiculous Event Made You Believe We Live In a Simulation?

Am I the Genius?

amithejerk.com

Education, Self-improvement

4.6765 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

What ridiculous event made you believe that we live in a simulation. I found a random orange on the

0:06.4

street while walking to school. I picked it up and tossed it down a driveway and it landed right

0:10.9

up against a car's back tire. When I was walking home, the car backed out of the driveway,

0:15.5

and as it drove over the orange, it sprayed all over me. Now that is some final destination crap. I drove to the park to go running. I used my cell phone as a GPS. When I was done, I put my phone on the top of my car and spent a few minutes stretching. Then I got in my car and drove home. On the way home, driving about 35 with the window down, I took a turn, and the cell phone slid off the roof of my car and

0:37.9

into my open window bouncing off my arm and landing in my lab. I never told anyone because

0:43.1

I just didn't think they'd believe me. In 2007, I read The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.

0:50.1

The book inspired me to quit my job and move to Uruguay. On route to Uruguay, I got in line to get my passport stamped,

0:56.6

and the guy in line directly in front of me was Tim Ferriss on his way to Uruguay for the first time.

1:02.3

I introduced myself and told him his book inspired my life change.

1:06.0

We had a nice three-minute conversation while standing in line.

1:08.8

Cool guy!

1:10.4

In the middle of making an omelette,

1:12.2

I answered the door while holding a whole egg. It turned out to be my new neighbor, asking if she

1:17.1

could borrow an egg. The look of confusion on her face when I produced one on the spot was only

1:21.5

matched by my own. She took it and left without saying a word. It was super weird. You should

1:27.2

have reached behind her ear and pulled

1:28.7

out the egg magician style. The work I used to do required me to carry a lot of keys. At the end of my

1:36.0

shift, every day I'd go and hang up my keys on a cup hook, but as I entered the room, I'd toss them

1:40.7

over to the board with the hooks, trying to get them to land on the hook. And every day

1:44.5

the keys would miss and fall to the floor, I'd retrieve them and hang them and sit and do my paperwork.

1:50.0

One day at the end of my shift, I was a bit later than usual, and the supervisors were in the room.

1:54.8

Again, I tossed my keys, and they hooked this time. All of the supervisors were stunned,

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