I used to sell books back in the day in a super hippie crunchy counter culture town.
One day this guy came in we lovingly described as “a little bit fried”… Heavy drug use left him just a little crispy around the edges.
But he was making an effort, he had on a suit and tie that was maybe 20 years out of date. A GoodWill find probably.
“Hey man, is there a book that can help me fix a hole in my resume?”
“Well… it kinda depends on how big a hole you’re talking about and what you were doing…”
. . .
“I TOOK TEN YEARS OFF TO FOLLOW THE DEAD!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘”
“You know, in any OTHER town that could work against you… in THIS town… you could put that ON your resume and have people go ‘DUDE! WHAT SHOWS DID YOU SEE???’”