one time i rember going into lowes looking for HID bulbs, and i had a few basic questions that i wanted to ask. The first employee that i talked to, without missing a beat he firmly asked me "what are you using those for?" I didn't think up a response to use in that situation but without hardly thinking about it i orchestrated and elaborate story about a science experiment i was doing for my botany class and needing a light powerful enough that i could have a control group that would be in the same environment for the entire year while the other plants weathered the seasons. It was beautiful, i must have been in some completely different mindstate because generally i would have stuttered and probably just walked away, haha.

someone that i work with approached me about it one night and said that the person who i talked to initially was a cop or something like that. I don't know how accurate my memory is of what she told me, though. It still wigged me out a little bit.