Substance Use & Abuse

Editor: Oh, get me a cinnamon roll too. Here’s a twenty.
Reporter: A twenty? The only people that have money in the middle of the week are drug dealers.

169 West Nepessing Street
Lapeer, Michigan

Editor: How funny do you think alcoholism is?

12 W. 27th Street
New York, NY

Doctor on phone: A drug test? OK, so how much coke did you do? And you wanna know what?

232 East 20th Street
New York, NY

Overheard by: Robert Spychala

Editor: I was going to go to that show last night but I got distracted.
Production Assistant: Why?
Editor: It was 4/20, man!
Production Assistant: That’s mature.

1515 Broadway
New York, NY

Head of Security: I know several of you have told me I looked familiar. Well, I used to be an undercover narcotics agent…don’t worry, I won’t name names.

550 Bowie Street
Austin, Texas

Mail clerk #1: I got the new pair of shoes because I don’t like what my old ones look like.
Mail clerk #2: Try crack, then you won’t care what you look like.

525 West Van Buren Street
Chicago, Illinois

Helpful Co-worker: Does anyone want anything from Starbucks?
Tired Co-worker: Yeah, get me a triple iced mocha with a shot of crack
in it.

827 Fort Street
Honolulu, Hawaii

Overheard by: Jade Shiroma

Suit: It was 6 hours of nonstop powerdrinking. My wife was at a Christmas party and asked me to pick her up, and I said, “Even I would not get behind the wheel now!”

350 Madison Ave.
New York, NY

Worker: I need to go home, I think I have caffeine poisoning.
Boss: Caffeine poisoning?
Worker: Yeah, I think the coffee made me sick.
Boss: Is it like being on too much speed?

810 Dominican Drive
Nashville, Tennessee

Model employee: The earlier I wake up, the more crack I smoke on the way to work.

3100 W. Lake Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: Samesque