Hey guys, I’ve been lurking here for an extremely long time and never posted any information about Phil simply due to the reputation of this site. I do not live near Phil but my workplace is near where Phil shops. I work a night shift and when I get off, I have ran into Phil and Kat on 4 separate occasions so far in the last 2 years.
I did not take any pictures or videos of our encounters. Why? Because one, I’m honestly trying to get my stuff from the store, go home, and go to bed. Second, I don’t want to look like a clown taking my phone out and trying to take pictures of Phil, we know what he looks like. Third, Phil would use that as obvious pity bucks material, “some troll is stalking me” etc. The store in question is the Fred Meyer that Kat works at in Renton, an area known as Benson Hill.
So, I’m gonna give a brief rundown of the times I met our favorite internet celebrity. Don’t expect a lot from these.
The first time was I going to the checkout lanes and Phil and Kat were standing in line. I was shocked to actually see him so I decided to use that same checkout line. I got behind Phil and I heard him grumbling about how slow the gal running the register was. Kat mentioned to Phil that the woman was trying her best since the customer had a lot of fruit that had to be manually inputted into the register. Phil was wearing his Mario Bros shirt that shows them walking like the Beatles across the street and his Zelda pajamas. I said to Phil that I really liked his shirt, I don’t like it but I just wanted to start a conversation. Kat turned around and honestly looked scared. Phil turned around and told me he didn’t want to talk to me, in a really rude way. I asked him if he was ok, this caused Kat to look even more frightened and Phil again turned around and told me to stop harassing him. Because Kat was beginning to look really scared, I decided to end it there.
The 2nd time at Fred Meyers that I saw Phil, he was again at a checkout lane. I again decided to go through the same lane. Phil was pointing at the magazines, he was ridiculing the people on the covers and saying they had unrealistic bodies, smiles, hair etc, and they all made way too much money. Kat looked at the magazines but didn’t say anything. I said to Phil, “good morning”, Phil turned around and told me he didn’t want to talk to me. I don’t think he recognized me because it had been a few months since our first encounter. He was wearing that Sonic shirt and his Zelda pajama pants again.
The 3rd encounter was actually at a stoplight. I pulled up after I got done shopping and Phil was in the lane to my left. Kat was driving and Phil was intensely on his phone. It was a summer day so Phil had the window rolled down. I couldn’t quite hear him but I’m sure he was talking to Kat about Twitter or YouTube, he was clearly angry. Since we were in our cars, I decided to have a little more fun. I rolled down my window and shouted “Hey Phil? What’s up?”. This alarmed Kat severely. Phil looked up but did not look at me. Kat looked at me but quickly looked away in fear I guess. Phil ignored me, I know Phil could hear me. I even lied and tried to get him to talk by shouting “I’m a big fan of your streams!” Phil continued to ignore, and he slowly rolled up his window. As the window was being rolled up, the light turned green, and I heard Phil tell Kat to go. She hauled ass out of there.
The 4th and so far final encounter, was just a few months ago. I was shopping at the Fred Meyer, I walked past the frozen food section and I saw Kat and Phil. I decided to investigate so I went down the same aisle. Phil was holding a family size Marie Calendar’s frozen lasagna. Phil was angry at it, I could tell from a distance. He was staring intensely at it, burning a hole through it. As I walked up and pretend I needed something, I heard Phil say “How many fucking servings are in this bitch?” Phil could not find the serving size on the box despite looking at the nutritional information, he needed help. Kat told Phil she didn’t know and said that he could get an employee to help him. This seemed to anger Phil more, he grew frustrated and finally just put the lasagna in his cart, saying “whatever.” I walked past him as the couple continued to dig through the frozen food section. Phil was wearing that same Mario shirt and those Zelda pajamas. He was also wearing a generic face mask. As I walked past his cart, I took a brief look at what was in it, it is the only time I could look down into his cart. The cart was packed, filled to the brim, with mostly frozen food meals, otter pops, flavored carbonated water, cans of Chef Boyardee, toilet paper, plastic utensils, Chewy granola bars, and Bar S hot dogs. That was the stuff on the top, I don’t know what was beneath it all. But it was a very large amount of groceries, much larger than what I’ve seen them have before.
So there you have it. Nothing too exciting, but since I read on here people wondering what Phil does outside his condo, I’d thought I would finally share this. I don’t know Phil at all, no more than you guys, I just happen to shop at the same place as him at the same time once in a great while.
I apologize for the extremely long post.
