Substance Use & Abuse

Chick #1: Did you know that they’re making Coke kosher for Passover?
Chick #2: [Blank stare.]Chick #1: They’re putting sugar in it.
Chick #2: [Continues to stare.]Chick #1: Normally, it has corn syrup in it.
Chick #2: … Oh! The soda!

200 Varick Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: Mardi

Flight attendant #1: I used to get high before studying for tests. Did you ever try it?
Flight attendant #2: No, no, I never did that.
Flight attendant #1: It really works… Hey, did you study the new rules for flights shorter than two hours? Lots of information.
Flight attendant #2: Are you high right now?
Flight attendant #1: … Why do you ask?

United flight
Nebraska

Overheard by: Ken

Boss: Oh, you met Beth* from the London office? How old did she look?
Woman on phone: Oh, well, she looked older than me, so she must in her 50s. Then again, sometimes people look older than me, but they turn out to be only 35.
Boss: Cigarette smokers.
Woman on phone: … And meth addicts.

Sears Tower
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: 22 and never doing meth

Guy: Man, having cigarettes without a lighter is like having peanuts without the jelly!
Lady: Don’t you mean butter?
Guy: Oh, no. I got the butter.

1450 East Parham Road
Richmond, Virginia

Overheard by: smoking some distance away

Coworker #1: I remember trying heroin once. It was the only time I managed to beat my aunt at Scrabble.
Coworker #2: Dude, that’s like doing coke and kicking back with a puzzle!

600 Anton Boulevard
Costa Mesa, California

Woman: I don’t know if I remember that movie. When did it come out?
Man: Sometime in the ’70s, I think.
Woman: Oh. I definitely wasn’t sober then.

Nevada

Female clerk: When I get that drunk I always end up stealing something or get something stolen from me.
Male clerk: Maybe you shouldn’t get so drunk.
Female clerk: I wouldn’t, but I can’t afford good coke with this shit job.

Oslo
Norway

Girl: Oooh, I feel dizzy.
Coworker: Why?
Girl: This marker, I think.
Coworker: What about it?
Girl: Well, it says ‘scented,’ but when I smelled it it gave me a headache.
Coworker: That says fluorescent, as in it’s a highlighter.
Girl: It says scented.
Coworker: Fluorescent means ‘brightly colored,’ it doesn’t mean ‘smell me.’
Girl, muttering: Well, I wouldn’t smell it again anyway because it didn’t smell very good.

38 Exchange Street
New Hampshire

Overheard by: Crystal

Suit #1: Dude, that guy is falling over drunk in the middle of the day!
Suit #2: Lucky bastard.

Houston, Texas

Overheard by: Jealous too

Lady to coworker: It talked like a pig, so I could understand it. And there was a one-eyed llama with its ear hanging down, and a buck that’d been shot in the shoulder. Those were all real animals, but it was the cartoon shark that bit me.

1st Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa