A joke with customers at work (2 of 2): Wine.

The other week at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, two vivacious (white) (female) college students came in, and when they each went to order some merlot, I made sure to card them, since from the look of them there was a chance that they were underage.

(They were each 22.)

And, when I delivered their wine to the table, I was like, "There you go... And it looks like you guys can't get any mer-lower."

And, they loved that.

Later, too, I told them that I had come up with a joke, and I asked them what someone who smokes pot says to someone who drinks wine.

"Oh, I should know that," said the one, as the other one said, "Sounds like us."

And, they didn't know, so I replied --- "When you go mer-low, I go high!"

And, they also liked that one.

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A joke with customers at work (1 of 2): Currants.

A few months ago, a table of four (tired-looking) grad student types came in to the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now in work clothes very late at night, and they all got beers right away, and then when they went to order their food, they mentioned that they had been harvesting currants all day, as part of one of their prof's projects.

"So do you have CURRANT RESEARCH on your CV?", I was like.

And, one (slim) (blonde) (mustachioed) guy said no, but that prof whose area it is always makes jokes like that, it's a thing he's known for.

Later, too, I came up with another joke as well:

Q: What's a currant harvester's favorite drink?

A: Busch Light.

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("Bush light.")

Repeated joke at work.

A few weeks ago at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, my one (older) (Thai) coworker who's a whiz at the phones said out of nowhere that she's worried about me, that one day someone is going to kidnap me, because they opened a tomb and they need someone to read the one ancient language that I've been studying intensively for quite a few years now.

And, the next time we worked together, she repeated that same comment again, and each time she said it, she just had this big mischievous smile on her face.

You could tell that she was quite taken with the scenario.