Reader\'s Digest Australia - 05.2019

(Joyce) #1

All in a Day’s Work


HUMOUR ON THE JOB

88 | May• 2019


In A Class
of Their Own

hire the other one. They offered me
a chocolate bar ‘for my trouble’.
I’m still bitter. thestir.cafemom.com

DENTED EGO
As the dentist laboured over my
teeth, he tried to make small talk.
“What do you do?” he asked.
“I’m a comedian,” I answered.
“Interesting.” After a pause, he
said, “Let’s get an impression...”

GIFT ME A JOB


When I was a teenager, I applied for
a job at a hospital gift shop and was
so pumped when I got the phone
call that they wanted me to start.
When I showed up for my first
shift, the manager gave me the
weirdest look, then told me to wait
while she called someone else.
Turns out that they interviewed two
girls named Jessica and meant to


I had a student who
wrote an art history
paper about ‘Leonard
Davin Chi’.

I walked into a
classroom where the
professor was in the
midst of an angry
lecture on plagiarism
because one of his
students had turned in

an essay that started
with: “In my 25+ years
of experience in this
field ...”

I teach French.
I’d given everyone in
class a lengthy piece
of French homework.
One student put the
entire assignment
into Google Translate,

but translated it into
Spanish.

I had a girl in my
class ask how long
it would take for a
submarine to travel
from Florida to
California ... going
underneath the
United States.
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Pearls of ‘wisdumb’ from
ess-than-stellar students

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