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Tex_Maam

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Got to out myself on this one.

So I teach night classes for high school students, and tonight we were talking about using the test's answer choices to avoid having to work the whole problem.

And what my brain intended to say was "So you just eyeball it with your answers," and what my mouth actually said was, "So you just eye it with your balls."

On the plus side, if I do get fired, I'll have a lot more time to work on my book.
 

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Some years ago, sitting with a couple of friends at a bar in the town where I went to grad school, an argument developed among a quartet of younger people, current students I suspect, in the adjacent booth. We ignored it as best we could, but after a few minutes one woman stood up and announced to the other three:

"I am not here to listen to your accolades about my reality."

And stalked out of the place.

I wrote that one down in a notebook I still have.

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In a small grocery store nearby, I heard one of the employees complaining to another employee. He said when he was working behind the counter taking an order for a lady customer, one of the other employees crawled in from the back room on his hands and knees, out of sight of the customer, farted really loudly and crawled out again.

My husband worked in a large chain grocery store for 13 years. The employees did this to each other ALL THE TIME. Apparently it's an industry-wide epidemic! They also locked each other in the cooler, wore someone else's name tag while being rude to mystery shoppers, etc.
 

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Oh man, this thread made me giggle...

I remember laughing at some of the rubbish I've heard over the years, but I can't recall exactly what was said... Most of the stuff I can remember is either incredibly stupid 'come ons' from clueless guys or dirty things drunk guys say both working in nightclubs...
 

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A friend was telling me a story about how, as a young Catholic high school student, she and her friend were in charge of the Communion wine and wafers. The priest came in, blessed them. Service was really minimal that day. Afterward, her friend insisted that they stay and finish all the blessed Communion wine and wafers. She was a little iffy about having too much wine, so her friend responded:

"YOU CAN'T JUST WASTE JESUS."

100% serious. Not as a joke.
 

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Yesterday, with the kids at the public pool, I took a break and sat in the lounge chairs. There was group of 3 or 4 ladies next to me, all reading books. They started talking about books they liked. One was mad because she had been in Target and seen what appeared to be a new 50 Shades... book, one she didn't recognize. She told her friends as far as she was concerned, any new 50 Shades... book was an automatic buy. When she got home and looked at the book, it was 50 Shades of Green, a guide to recycling, reusing, etc.

"How can they get away with that? That's deceptive and I'm mad about it. I was fooled into buying something I didn't even want."
 

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I've LOL'd several times reading this thread. Thanks guys!

Mine isn't as funny as it is an observance in idiocy. Was walking through Toys R Us last year and saw a woman loudly and angrily her small son (maybe 5 years old) that if he didn't stop "acting ugly", she was going to "beat his butt". Oh, irony...
 

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Everyone knows how nasty teenagers are when they discover sex/porn.

I was in the check out line at the grocery store and the teenage cashier was being hit on by the bag boy. He told her to put a certain part of his anatomy in her mouth. (In front of a CUSTOMER!)

Her response was: "I don't put small objects in my mouth; they're a choking hazard."

I was laughing so hard, I nearly wet my pants. That's one of the best put-downs I have heard in years.
 

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Best thread ever!

I hear stuff all the time, but not much is coming to mind. Although I had my kid at the park the other day while a couple of other moms were there. Their kids were regular terrors, badly behaved, going INSANE while the moms cursed at each other and talked about how amazing 50 Shades was. When one of the toddlers started basically tap dancing in a puddle, I finally gave up and pointed it out. The woman replied, "Oh, he's not my kid, I'm just watching him." (She later chased him into the street for some other bit of misbehavior, which just made me sick to watch. We left.)
 

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Got a few...

Years ago, when I worked as a shelf-stocker in a grocery store, a woman walked up and started asking me about head lice. I guess because I was roughly near the pharmacy I looked like I must be an expert; must've spent five to ten minutes as she asked me about head lice, worried whether she had head lice, and wondered what to do about head lice if she had it. I finally managed to steer her to the pharmacist. (Never did find out if she actually had head lice or not, though... one of those subplots in my life that will never be resolved.)

A while back, our family was in a park near a large bronze statue depicting a logger and his ox team, larger than life. While we're standing there, a guy walks up and starts complaining about how they always make statues of bulls instead of steers - you can't work with bulls, damn it, but everyone wants bulls! The guy's father, evidently, had been a woodcarver, and customers always insisted on anatomically correct male animals, even when said anatomy would invalidate the authenticity - as in the bull/steer conundrum. We must have somehow looked interested, because he kept going on and on and on about it. Standing in a park on a sunny day, listening to a man rage about bronze bull testicles... ah, memories...

And then there was the slow day at my current job, working the Saturday shift. The Saturday shift's always been a little... odd. Anyway, I overheard one of the older ladies talking about self-defense and firearms. She declared that, if she ever shot an intruder, she'd want them to suffer before they died - none of this "drop them in one shot" bull. Make 'em bleed, put the fear of God into them. After all, they broke into your place, not the other way around. (There's a reason I don't work the Saturday shift unless I really, really need the hours...)

I know there are more, but those are the ones that linger.
 

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Coming home after attending a course in London I was on the commuter train. I had a generous boss so was in first class, with lots of business men. Most of them were working or talking on quietly on their mobiles, except one. He had a really loud voice and was a pest. His phone rang and he answered it and the whole carriage heard his half of the conversation, "Yes darling it was wonderful . . . you made some amazing food . . . yes it was . . . I can't wait til we are together again . . . yes darling ... OoooOoo yes" He said good bye and blew kisses at her. A few minutes later his phone rang again. "O it's you. Yes it was OK. The train is on time. Kids OK? See you then."

A friend had a part-time job at Marks and Spencer. One day a woman asked her where the legless tights were.
 

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Walking across campus one day behind two female students:

Student 1: He was a total jerk, all he wanted the whole time was for me to suck his dick.
Student 2: OMG! Seriously? You didn't do it, right?
Student 1: Well, I didn't *want* to suck his dick...
Student 2: DID you?
Student 1: Well, yeah. But then I left right after that.


Me: HORRIFIED!
 

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Walking across campus one day behind two female students:

Student 1: He was a total jerk, all he wanted the whole time was for me to suck his dick.
Student 2: OMG! Seriously? You didn't do it, right?
Student 1: Well, I didn't *want* to suck his dick...
Student 2: DID you?
Student 1: Well, yeah. But then I left right after that.


Me: HORRIFIED!

This reminds me of one from my days of working as an "entertainer". I only worked in the nicer clubs, and never did anything illegal (I was JUST a dancer. Period), but went to one of the seedier dive places in town once to try to win some quick cash in an amateur contest. As I was balancing myself trying not to let my bare foot come into contact with the floor of their dressing/locker room, I overheard one of the dancers that actually worked there telling another how she'd just given a customer a BJ in the VIP room. Apparently, he'd offered $25, but she demanded $50 (and gotten it, I assumed from the way she told the story).

I stopped dead right there and started changing back into my street clothes to leave. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. "Horrified" is definitely the word to describe me in that moment.
 

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Everyone knows how nasty teenagers are when they discover sex/porn.

I was in the check out line at the grocery store and the teenage cashier was being hit on by the bag boy. He told her to put a certain part of his anatomy in her mouth. (In front of a CUSTOMER!)

Her response was: "I don't put small objects in my mouth; they're a choking hazard."

I was laughing so hard, I nearly wet my pants. That's one of the best put-downs I have heard in years.

Or the two variations:

"Looks like a peni$, only smaller."

During the initial stages of intimacy - "Is it in yet?"
 

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Darn, I wish I could remember more of the things I've heard.

When I belonged to a leftist collective in high school, I walked into the classroom we held our meetings in once right as a good friend of mine uttered the phrase, "If rape is surprise sex, then murder is surprise euthanasia!"
 

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I always told my friends I could do stand up about my kids.

Some of the most memorable:

Daughter age 11: "Dad, is it hard to screw in a nail?"

Daughter age 5 in hobby store: " Oooo, Mama look! Blue balls! I've always wanted blue balls!"

Son age 4 in resturant. "Lookee, I got crabs!"

Son age 9 pissed off at sister. "Hey Mom, d'ya know what this is? * blows in empty pop bottle * Its Sissy skydiving!"

Gotta love 'em. They keep me young.
 

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Overheard in a Walmart aisle...

A stout woman taking furious issue with something her adolescent son had done or said while she had been talking to a brace of "church ladies" she'd encountered moments before...

"How dare you embarrass me like that - you little son of a bitch!"

"Yes ma'am - that's what I am."
 

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Pumping my own gas, two guys in overalls talking next to me. One says, "You know him, he hangs out with Mark." (other guy shakes his head.) "He's one of them--whatdya...? Not Hawai'ian. Samoyeds." And he was so pleased he'd remembered the "right" term.

A friend of a friend of a friend was allegedly downright brilliant at hearing cliches wrong. The friend had a whole list of them but the only one I remember was "His boss really raped him over the coals." Which is way worse than the original
 

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Overheard during the interval at a performance of The Valkyrie: "I like the Ring Cycle because it's got a good story to it. It's a daft story, but at least they don't sing everything five times like they do in Handel."

Overheard on a bus:
"My mum married the first man she had sex with and I married the first man I had sex with."
"I didn't marry the first man I had sex with. I couldn't, he was my brother."
 
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