Tagged: Work (581)

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I told her to call me at four to disrupt the meeting and she called me at four and I told her I was very busy and she never called me again.

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I told her I wrote car ads. She laughed and choked on her gum. I said, So you know my work then. She bought me a drink because she felt pity.

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People, you need to work, dollars don’t grow on fauna, you need to labor, and then, maybe, we can have the lady in the cake for my birthday.

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They are both far from home. He orders a last drink. I have kids, he says. So do I, she replies. They watch the TV behind the bar. Dreaming.

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You are all unique, like snowflakes, the teacher tells her students. She goes home and opens a beer and eats some nachos. Like me, she sighs.

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He says, I’m a Size 10. She smiles and bends over and finds the size. He says, You have a nice bum. She frowns. She says, I’m holding shoes.

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The meeting ended with a joke so foul it left a palpable stink, and then the new guy said, Who farted? and the meeting room was quarantined.

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He sits in the backseat reading the day’s bad news. He loves his life, but it’s not enough. Drive us off a cliff, he commands the chauffeur.

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We are all accidents of history. The professor writes this on the blackboard. Some more than others, he sighs. A bit too loudly. On purpose.

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He calls his mom. He says, We’re engaged. She squeals. He says, It just means we’re talking. And then she remembers her son is in marketing.

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