Daily conspiracy

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In the 1960s, dozens of outraged people wrote letters to their representatives and to the US Coast Guard demanding that something be done to help the castaways on Gilligan's Island. When I lived in Florida, a friend told me that a family member on her husband's side went searching for the obituary for a soap opera character who had died.

In a population of 300+ million people, there are going to be some epic morons out there.

When my parents were quite young and I was a toddler/preschooler, my paternal grandmother wrote letters to my mom.  She talked about people and their lives as though they were neighbors of hers though they lived on a farm in Iowa near a small town and had nowhere near the glamorous lives she described.  My mother just thought they were people she didn't know as she wasn't from there.  

Finally, mom asked dad who various people were and it turns out they were characters on As the World Turns that grandma and grandpa watched every day after lunch.

I chalked it up to grandma not knowing what to write to mom about and was doing the best she could.