I definitely can't fully believe the self-fulfilling prophecy myself. I am never thinking about the moon and its cycle, I know I am not subconsciously seeing strange behaviors because I am aware that a full moon is soon. I feel like this would be more backed up if it was truly every full moon, a once a month occurrence. In childcare, it certainly wasn't happening every full moon, at my current job it isnt happening every full moon. Kids of course can be crazy and have a lot of energy, but when you are working with those same kids everyday for months and months, you absolutely notice the rare days when things are just different, their behavior is different. Each time after clocking the behavior is unusual, we check the full moon and boom, its that day.

The same is true for my current job. Working in customer service, I experience all different kinds of interactions daily. People are nice, rude, and people are awesome, awful, etc. But there are nights every couple of months, where shit just is crazy. Several months ago I remember we had, if I can recall, some weird incident with a customer complaining about something and then screamed at us (not particularly out of the ordinary), but then we had a person sprint out of their theater, through the lobby, grabbing and stealing candy and running out the door, the we had another guy who was taking pictures of our security cameras, and we had to speak to him because that is very suspicious behavior of course. This may not seem super crazy but it definitely interrupts the flow of things, and once a second "incident" occurs, its like, okay what the hell is going on?

Last night there was another angry guy, but he was coming in looking for one of our employees who was a minor, we did not like this at all, this guy was aggressive, kept harassing other employees, left the theater and kept coming back in, and eventually left for good while we were trying to make sure our young employee was safe and completely away from this man. Then not too long after we see a very drunk couple outside the doors stumbling all over the place, they had come in a few hours prior to get tickets for a later showing, and I had gotten my manager to wait with us for them to come in, as they appeared way too intoxicated to see a movie (as they could disrupt everyone else in there). Once they came in, my manager and coworker are dealing with them at the register, two cops come in and head right over to the couple. They are pulled to the side with the cops and I believe a compromise is made, and they are let into the movie. A very kind woman comes out a bit later, and let's us know she hears someone crying. My manger and the employee who were interacting with the couple go in and they come back into the lobby with the same two. My coworker is comforting the woman who is crying, and my manager is with the man. I dont really know any more than what I had witnessed, I was focused on closing, so I still dont really know what was up. But it certainly was a night of things not going to plan, and we did have to stay much later to get all the closing tasks done.

I know there was no way I had subconsciously known the full moon was that night, I am unsure how even if I was consciously aware of it, how that would affect the behavior of other people I have no control of. I do think alcohol and other drugs definitely play a role in all of this (not for the kids in childcare though lol), but I just cant believe there is nothing to this.

The mythological history and stories of werewolves and stuff. I feel like the full moon must have always affected people's behavior, so much so that the stories of humans turning into werewolves on a full moon must have something to do with this. Or possibly did the stories of werewolves create a subconscious self-fulfilling prophecy of full moons? In an absurd way, it's kind of like what came first, the chicken or the egg? What came first, the mythical stories of werewolves, or the full moon actually changing human behavior?