Substance Use & Abuse

Customer service manager: Okay, now I’m going to grab my hipflask, hide behind the bushes, and drink myself stupid.

98 Toryork
North York, Ontario
Canadia

Employee #1: So, does [Wheels] do coke? It sure as hell seems like he does.
Employee #2: No man, he’s from Montreal.
Employee #1: Oh. Why does that make sense?

101 Autopark Circle
Toronto, Ontario

Visiting European account manager: Oh, you have a new cell! I guess it was time to get a new one?
Chinese Project Manager: Yes, this morning I come to work and I am robbed by bandits. So, I have to get a new cell phone.
Visiting European account manager: Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha…ha…Heh. Oh. Oh dear. Are you ok?
Chinese Project Manager (in Chinese): Is she drunk?

188 Dong Cheng Da Dao
Dong Guan, China

Overheard by: Adam White

Lobbyist #1: You remember how it was in school…drinking, gambling,
and being investigated by the IRA.
Lobbyist #2: Don’t you mean the IRS?
Lobbyist #1: No, the IRA. Irish Republican Army.

Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC

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