More Against the Days

[pynchonoid]

Reminds me of when I applied for a job at Farrell's
Ice Cream Parlor, back in the day.  "Ever scooped any
ice cream?" the manager asked.  "Not professionally." 
I got the job.

--- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> It's a mega-profitable purveyor of bad coffee at
> hugely inflated prices. It's become a cultural icon,
> loosely connoting dot.commers and yuppies.  It was
> actually an easy kind of cultural jab for Pynchon to
> make.  I preferred his teenage girl, who punctuated
> every sentence with the word "as,"  instead of
> "like."
> 
> Due to unfortunate financial circumstances, I
> actually applied for an $8.75/hour job at Starbucks
> a couple of days ago. My  interviewer said "Here at
> Starbucks, we believe in providing each customer
> with a legendary experience.  Do you feel you can
> provide a legendary experience to each client you
> serve?"  I said yeah.  Don't think I'm getting a
> callback, because I couldn't come up with three
> professional references who could swear that I was
> capable of pouring coffee into a paper cup.
> 

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