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The Screaming 'Press Four' Kid in the Elevator
from The Choker | The Tim Dillon Show #313 · #313
6 min
Tim recounts a terrifying elevator encounter with an autistic/troubled teen screaming 'press four' while a Saudi-looking man waits for the next elevator, then describes a mentally ill man wandering a grocery store repeating a story about supplying drugs to the Rolling Stones, riffing on the pervasive, glaring mental illness he sees everywhere now.
- Tim describes entering his elevator and encountering a screaming teenage boy demanding he press floor four.
- The kid was sweating and screaming "press four" as loud as possible while a skinny Saudi man stood next to him in the elevator.
- The Saudi man also exits the elevator, telling Tim he doesn't know the kid and just walked in as the screaming started.
- Tim recounts a separate incident at a grocery store where a man repeatedly told the exact same story about providing drugs to the Rolling Stones to every customer.
- The man approaches various shoppers—including one ladling soup—telling them word-for-word the identical Rolling Stones drug dealer story with no variation.
- Tim observes that mental illness in the country is now so obvious and glaring it's become unremarkable when encountered.
- People are wandering around in their own reality, broken from the shared game, and the public has stopped being shocked by their behavior.
- The elevator kid was particularly intense—sweating, spitting, screaming—bad enough that even the Saudi decided to wait for the next one.
- Tim speculates the kid was trying to reach floor four but somehow ended up on his floor, showing visible signs of distress and behavioral issues.
- The elevator kid resembled Randall from the cartoon Recess, repeatedly screaming "press four" throughout the encounter.