more true than I realized

Waaaaaay back in the early days of Buffy (like, maybe the pilot?), someone (probably Giles?) has a line about how everyone appears to have forgotten about whatever vampire showdown thing happened because their brains have just rationalized it away as something else. And at the time I was like ‘lol no but I get that it would be a very different show otherwise.’

(Or, even better example, because any day you can bring up Iron Man Armored Adventures is a good day! It seemed wild that Tony got away with his “I was in the bathroom” excuse every time he went to go do Iron Man stuff during school hours.)

Now I’m not so sure. I mean, I have coworkers who say they’re going to the bathroom, and it’s not like I keep track of when they come back. I look up and they’re not at their desk — who knows how long they’ve been gone? There’s absolutely gossip about that one person who goes into the bathroom with an ipad and doesn’t come out for half an hour, but nobody assumes they are a secret superhero. Most of the time no one notices, and when people do notice the assumptions are usually more along the lines of gosh I hope they’re not doing drugs, but they’re probably just making personal phone calls or possibly secretly putting in time at a second job while they’re getting paid for this one.

(I often wind up thinking about this as I’m leaving work, because one person’s car has the autobot symbol on it from Transformers, and I always think, ‘You know, it *could* be an autobot, and I would never know.’)

So yeah, I actually think that probably people could get away with a lot of secret superheroics, or magic, or whatever.

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