To whoever chose this photo: Tell me you aren’t old enough to remember this without…
That took me a minute.
Back in the 90s, my then-boss took a call from a potential employer, one of our competitors, re: one of our ex-employees who’d recently left. We were in the back room together. He covered the mouthpiece and quietly told me who it was w/a big grin. He answered all the fellow’s questions while looking at me, and I was grinning back. The last question was obviously a point-blank one as to whether they should hire him. He smiled even more broadly, and spoke the immortal words,
“Oh, if you can get Arthur to work for you, you’ll be very lucky indeed!”
After he rang off, we all but ROFL’d
Almost every house in my neighborhood has one of those Little Free Library things. They mostly have bills and catalogs and postcards and stuff, but it’s still so cool! - Joey Alison Sayers
My dad mostly kept up with the times. I’m glad he’s not as sexist as he was back when we still lived in NYC.
One day when I was eight or so, we’d returned from a walk after a fresh spring rain. To catch some of the wetness before we tromped on into the house, my mom had laid out some newspapers just inside the door.
As we came in and dutifully stepped around on the papers, dad said, “These are the Times that dry men’s soles.”
what in the ever-loving hell did i just watch, lol
Maybe it’s from back when both coke and weed were legal?
it’s a perfectly reasonable assumption!