I had a conversation with a man who I would call strange. I don't know how we got there but the conversation turned to the anniversary of the moon landing of the Eagle Lunar craft on this date in 1969.

He said that it was all faked! He said there was "proof" that it was all filmed somewhere in Idaho.

Of course, I blinked at him and said "Bullshat!"

Then he proceeded to tell me that it was part of a larger government plot to raise taxes and scare the Commies.

Next, he went off about UFOs. He said the government had a flying saucer and three dead space visitors stashed in an underground vault at Area 51.

Again, I said something similar to the first time and added that he probably also believed in Sasquatch and the Loch Ness monster.

He immediately said that he did.

By this time he was reciting articles he read, most of which were probably from those tabloids you see at the grocery checkout line or from Internet "sources."

All I could say by that time was that he probably believed Hitler survived the war. He followed that by saying Hitler wasn't so bad and that the Holocaust was untrue.

I paid my bill and left him there.

Alone.

There are real people out there like him. I feel sorry for them but what the hell.