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All that Joe wanted to do was work his horribly boring job in peace.
That became an increasingly difficult prospect.
One day, the schizophrenic homeless guy that often panhandled around the store decided that Joe was God. We are not here to argue the relevancy of that claim, only to discuss the action. Joe’s boss didn’t take the situation seriously, even though Joe was indeed worried that the crazy person would stab him out of “love”. The crazy guy had begun to bring Joe gifts.
“If I told you I was Isaiah from the bible, you say I was right or wrong?” the crazy man would ask.
“I’d say I don’t know.” Joe would answer, trying not to set the guy off. 
Joe had been latched upon by crazy types before- men and women. This one was different, though, this time Joe was generally irked by the whole thing.
It was hard enough trying to talk to girls already, but now he had to be on the look out for the crazy guy that thought that he was god. If he could get some sort of support maybe he could end this, but no one took it seriously. He thought that maybe he could tell the man to kill himself. He, as God, could command it. But that would be evil. Joe’s own God would not look on this as a good thing. He’d be playing god and causing a sick man to die, and all so he could make his boring job more boring again.
It was not the sort of thing regular people had to think about or deal with.
It was the stuff that 48 Hours episodes were made of.
The simple man and his crazy stalker.
One of them needed to disappear.