Monday, September 11, 2006

Random Overhearings...

Overheard earlier today during an interview:

Interviewer: You understand that this job involves interacting with corner shops and retailers and wholesalers and really the lowest of the low...

Woman applicant: I understand completely. It is a challenge. But as you can see in my CV it is a challenge I have faced successfully before.

Interviewer: Hmm. But I hope you are aware of the... you know... sheer dirtiness involved in this profile. Street-work is tough and can be a total turn off for a lot of people... most people...

Woman: Oh no no no. (Gesticulating with both hands for effect) I love interacting with people. In fact when I meet these types of people... I just dont get turned off at all... in fact I get really really turned on! Really turned on! (Face huffing with effort...)

Interviewer: Er... ah... yes of course... ok...

51 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOL....strange are the fetishes that people have...and stranger still, the things they admit to!

Chitra said...

Hyuck hyuck hyuck....talk about how words can be twisted....

గిరి Giri said...

Funny one!

i think wrong words tumble out frequently in office settings. A lady in my earlier company sent a farewell note to us all stating

"..sad to leave you, but i am sure we will keep banging into each other".

I've read many a funny farewell note till now. If one makes a compendium of such REAL ONES it will make an ultra comedy book i guarantee!

Jay Sun said...

Good one !

btw, did she get the job ?

Automotivix said...

I am not sure if she got the job or not, but all corner shop owners in her "field" will definitely be turned on too ;-)

Garam Bheja Fry said...

interviewer :Do you have any idea what amount of disgrace you have earned for yourself.Your "turned on" answer scoffed at in the blogworld..

lady:(unperturbed)I am waiting for cardamom to comment...he's gonna clarify everything.He truly understands me *sniff* .last NIGHT he promised me that he'll tell the world what i really meant to say...

*sidin-laughing under the table*

*cardamom-Auctioning a brand new MMS clip..*

Anonymous said...

killer!

PSR Chaitanya said...

" Interviewer: Er... ah... yes of course... ok.."

LMAO

Ron said...

Pauvre femme, who fed the glee
Of fatcat's smirking gloat
She needed money, not bloggers funny
O - lend her a five pound note.

JuiceMeUp said...

Now Now, I need to don the role of a street thug and get her turned on. That would be a challenge now.

Hey Sidin
In your links section, i think you meant Jay/David Letterman/O'Brain Liners instead of Jay/Leno/O'Brain Liners

Nee said...

LOL - and she didn't correct herself later?

Giri...good one too!

Anonymous said...

LOL... liked the balle balle in delhi post too. quite typical.

Anonymous said...

absurd...how dirty u can right this was an example

Anonymous said...

Many are the ways we abuse the English language..an investment banker friend of mine often tells the story of how a prospectus just prior to filing with SEBI displayed the words "PUBLIC ISSUE" with the alphabet "L" conveniently missing on the cover page...

Similarly one has heard of "SEBI flings" with the all important "i" missing...

And one gentleman actually pronounced his lawfully wedded wife as 'awfully wedded" while writing a letter..

Blue Panther said...

This was funny!!!!

Anonymous said...

Nice,
btw saw some advertising on your website by makemytrip ...was wondering if this is by the blogspot guys or are you being paid to make us laugh?

Artnavy said...

absolutely hilarious

Rama said...

Sidin,
Check this out.
http://services.google.com/events/wordmasters

Rama

Anonymous said...

Jobs for MBAs from India's top 10 b-schools.

http://iim-jobs.blogspot.com

Shobha said...

LOLOLOL....

Anonymous said...

im sure you made up this one your self tell me,tell me the truth.

rajaram

Canary said...

hahahaha :D

dotook said...

hehehe ...these types of people eh :)

great writing man.... love the part in the other post about a moderately hot woman signing up for a mechanical engineering course.

only someone who went to engineering college will understand the loneliness of the long distance mechanical engineer :)

Anonymous said...

you republish your entire blog every fortnight, and mess with our rss feeds.. why oh why!!

The In-Depth Blog said...

This looks like a very intersting conversation...
Girl: "....turn on.."
"Interviewer: Er... ah... yes of course... ok.."

Anonymous said...

thats some weird stuff man....


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Unknown said...

That's a PJ at the best dude.. please don't disappoint fans like me ;-)

Sneha said...

lol. strange stranger strangest. applicant belongs to the third kind!

Enjoy said...

LOL....try this link and find urself......http://jairamji.blogspot.com/
shrawan

dotook said...

dude...jairamjiki to you too... that comment isnt anything but a promo for your blog... might as well have dropped a few words about this one too....since you were already here

Anonymous said...

Certain situations bring out the meaning of the worrd in a completely different perspective. Just as she is trying to reply how turned on of off she is with stray people, Journalism does not seem to be so turned on by bloggers- Are bloggers failed writers and half-wits or for professional journalism, is this the pits?

If I tell ya, I'll have to kill ya said...

my office is full of such lovelies. right from "i am very busty" written on the office messenger, instead of "i am very busy" to plenty more. i even compiled a list. not 1, not 2, but 3! u can read one of these http://maladiesofconfused.blogspot.com/2005/11/here-we-go-again.html

If I tell ya, I'll have to kill ya said...

PS: i was snorting quietly throughout balle balle in delhi...this coming from a non-punju in saddi dilli

Surya Ragunaathan said...

hic hic...good post, chief :-)

Surya Ragunaathan said...

by the way, that Google webmasters which Rama has written bout is nothing but the fact that Google is recruiting for Search Engine Marketing (SEM)...am currently doing the same...trust me Sid, its not for people like you & me (though I dont know u much personally, but still i can say that, i think...)
Cheers!!

Anonymous said...

sidin - write something. Life is becoming dull!

Anonymous said...

Dude, your columns on Hindu BL rock! I have been laughing so hard my cubicle neighbour's asking me what the tears are for!

Keep up the humour! You are getting funnier by the day (unlike Dave Barry)

Anonymous said...

I second Shreyas. Your Hindu articles are HILARIOUS!! But why don't you link to them a little more prominently than you have? I think most people who come here miss the links to it on the right of the page..
You are the funniest guy I know on the net. Love your serious bits on Hafta too.

senthil kumar dhanasekaran said...

did the girl get blew the job or she got a blow job... quiet tricky the words are... nice post...

Anonymous said...

:) Interesting!

Now why haven't you posted for so long??

garbo said...

hey sid, garbo here.
good stuff man.

garbo said...

good stuff zinadine,
-garbo

Anonymous said...

Sidin, whatever happened of your book? You dun even bog regularly :-(

Anonymous said...

You seem to be having the time to write regularly for your mag and other mags! But your own blog?!! Not important enough, haan? Too informal, haan? Too beneath your higher platforms of novels and propa articles haan?! haan? HAAN?!!

chaos said...

too good...

Lavin said...

hey man why have u stopped posting...

neways happy diwali

Anonymous said...

xcellent post dude...but plz wake up from ur slumber,will u?

GajabKhopdi said...

And what were you doing while you overheard that?

Anonymous said...

And I hope you really do take a bath and dont bhatko in those shady places the women was being deported to;-)

BaKfIrE said...

i think she came to wrong room with the right mugged up words !! :)

Anonymous said...

awwwww come on I refuse to beieve that woman can be that stupid.
by the way mna you write exceedingly well