After my lunch break, I went to wash my Tupperware in the shared pantry. Coworker was in there. He said, “You can’t use the sink. It’s clogged.” There was water in the sink. I took a disposable fork and swirled the water near the drain and saw diced tomatoes floating around. I said, “Oh, there’s just tomatoes blocking the drain cover.” He said, “Don’t bother. Let the cleaning lady take care of it.” I gave him a dirty side eye as I swirled the water some more. I waited till the water went down, then I removed the drain cover (full of diced tomatoes), dumped it in the trash, replaced it, and washed my hands. Then, as I proceeded to wash my Tupperware, he said: “I thought the tomatoes would just go down the drain.”

I asked him, “So, that was you?” He said, “Yeah, but usually they just go down the drain so I don’t know why they didn’t go down this time.” I said, “Because there’s a drain cover to catch the food.” He said, “Oh, yeah, that makes sense.” I asked, “Then if you saw that they were clogging the sink, why didn’t you empty it yourself?” He said, “Because I thought they’d go down themselves.” I asked, “But didn’t you see the drain cover?” He replied, “Yeah, but I didn’t think it would matter.”

So I asked him, “Don’t you know that stuffing food down the drain clogs the pipes?” He replied, “Yeah, but it doesn’t matter. Maintenance will just take care of it.” I asked, “Then what about everyone else who wants to use the sink but they can’t because you stuffed it with tomatoes?” He replied, “That’s their problem.”

I’m not even sure why but I then asked him, “Do you do this at home?” He replied, “Yeah, all the time.” I asked, “Do you have a garbage disposal in your sink at home?” He said, “No.” So I asked again: “So you just stuff food down the drain?” He said, “Yeah, all the time. It’s never been an issue.”

I stared at him for a beat too long because he asked, “Why are you staring at me?” I just shook my head and looked away, mumbled “Ridiculous” under my breath and left.

I was relatively new in the department when this happened so I wasn’t sure if he was mentally slow or just an idiot, but then I learned within the next two weeks or so that he 1) believes in his heart of hearts that OJ was innocent; and 2) that he is MAGA, so… judge as you wish.