Yesterday my last customer of the night was someone who, when I asked how his day was, replied with, “Well, it’s like Alabama - everything is relative.”

Then we got into a discussion about subjectivity vs. objectivity. More specifically, he was was arguing that objectivity doesn’t exist, because an individual’s reality is based on their experiences and everyone experiences things differently. He said math wasn’t even objective because math is just symbols and he could challenge the whole notion of what those symbols mean.

He also told me to turn down the heat on the cast-iron skillet because it was smoking and I think he was trying to prove a point, because when I said it was fine he said, “I don’t know if it really needs to be taken off the heat - it’s just my limited experience.”

He was really annoying because he wouldn’t get off the subject (even when I said I don’t really know anything about quantum physics - the basis of the philosophy that objectivity doesn’t exist - besides that Schrodinger invented them) but at the same time I think he’s basically right.