The art of convincing someone who lives in close proximity with you that you’re a secret Nazi, needs to be like fine wine being made. It takes time. We decided to start off with subtle comments. Ones that perhaps she won’t even notice at first, but will make her retrace them in her mind as signs she missed. She’ll probably delve back further to things that were completely non related to this project and see them as missed signs.
While working out this plan, we already had a few things that worked in our favour. Were in possession of an old photo of JP with a shaved head. Of course this was just another one of this bad fashion errors, like this first tattoo (sorry!) but it obviously works in our favour that he has a photo of “those dark days."
Another is that Carol has never seen American History X. While most people have, for her it will be a first, which means she will have a fresh reaction when she sees it, and a discussion we will no doubt engage her in. I will start adding dates, times and pictures if available to this, but for now, the timing isn’t exact so lets say were going back to about two weeks ago.
Indication one: JP is sitting watching TV. And of course what is on but American History X. This was the same say we decided upon this plan, and it seemed liked a sign that it must go fourth. So as Carols leaving the house, she asks what he’s watching. He tells her, to which she says she has yet to see this movie. He then suggests they should watch it together some night. He casually throws in “it reminds me of a very hard time in my life” now carol may not have seen the movie, but I’m sure she knows damn well the basis of it is Nazi gangs. As expected, this is the first indication and she doesn’t seem to think much of it.
Indication 2: Carol, like most people, has some gay friends. So do I, and so does JP. However I don’t think she knows about his friend, as I don’t think he’s visited the house as of yet, which works in our favour. Now the 3 of us have been drinking on a few occasions with both her and my gay friends, and all had a good night. Now, JP has started subtlety dropping comments when the opportunity arises, that seem anti-gay. The first was when carol invited him for drinks at her gay friends house. He asked who would be there, and she went, me, him and his boyfriend. JP then pulls a face of distaste at this and says “no, that just doesn’t seem like my kind buzz” Carol notices this, and makes a face of her own. And slowly we start to plant the seed.
Indication 3: 25/1/2012
So three of us sitting in the apartment and something come up about JPS tattoo. He recently bought a tattoo voucher as the one he has now is not completely finished. This also is good for us, as it brings up the subject for it. Me and JP are having food and while Carol is wandering about and in earshot (the place is tiny and every conversation came be heard in the shared area) I ask JP while talking to him about the tattoo “so what was the old one anyway?” the then proceeds to say I told you Rita I can’t tell you that. Carol then joins the conversation and me and her proceed to probe him for information about the old tattoo. He then starts to say, he has lost all his friends bar one over this tattoo. (It greatly helps that his friend is particular, while a lovely guy is quite morally bankrupt) me and carol then start to say we don’t see anything that could be so bad that we would fall out with him or dislike him. He smartly says, it’s what the tattoo represented, and it’s about the person he was at the time which he’s not proud of. Carol then jokingly says “maybe if it was something like I love raping people, I can see why” i had to stifle a laugh at this. If she thinks that’s bad, then she probably won’t react well to what were planning it to be. We continue to rib him a bit about this, but the conversation goes no further. Carol is probably now wondering what was so bad on him, that he can’t even tell me, and lost him friends. J
Future plans will be documented, and I would be open to gathering suggestions also. We will definitely let her stumble across some Nazi related items. The dryer is situated in his room that she uses, which gives us the perfect opportunity to allow her to stumble across something accidently, while it’s in his private space. More to come.
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