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From CrazedChimp:

Staples oh Snap!

What happened: So I'm a senior in high school and earlier this year I had a part time job at Staples, the pay was awesome but the work was aweful. Anyways, I was doing register training with this really sorry looking 24 year old state college English major who didn't persue anything having to do with his field and instead worked for crap pay at Staples. It was a Friday night (probably the only Friday I worked) and he turns to me and says "Heh, you'd never catch me working here on a Friday night when I was in high school..."

What I said: Oh... right... *akward*

What I SHOULD have said: Heh, well you'll never catch me working here once I get OUT of high school. Zing!

on the stairs

L'esprit d'escalier

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Or is it?

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