10 Jokes For Duty

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Updated on: Sep 17 2024

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Duty also extends to the kitchen. Ever try cooking a recipe that says, "Sauté onions until golden brown"? Well, those onions go from golden brown to "Oops, I guess I'm having blackened onions tonight" faster than my ambition to cook a fancy meal.
And finally, there's the unspoken duty to act surprised when someone tells you a spoiler even though you saw it coming a mile away. "Oh no, Darth Vader is Luke's father? Who saw that plot twist coming?" Well, everyone who watched it before me, apparently.
I feel like our duty to keep up with technology is a losing battle. My phone is constantly updating, and every time it does, I feel like it's saying, "Congratulations, your device is now 0.01% better at things you didn't even know it was bad at.
Duty in the workplace is a tricky thing. Your boss asks, "Can you stay late today?" and suddenly you're doing mental gymnastics trying to come up with a reasonable excuse that doesn't involve you binge-watching your favorite show.
You ever notice how your duty to reply promptly to a text is directly proportional to how attractive the person who sent it is? I can leave a message from my mom on read for hours, but if it's someone I'm trying to impress, suddenly I'm speed typing like my phone is on fire.
I've realized there's a universal duty to pretend you know what a colleague is talking about when they start using office jargon. They say, "Let's circle back and leverage our synergies," and I'm just nodding like, "Absolutely, let's synergize the heck out of that circle!
Remember when your duty was to rewind the VHS tape before returning it to the video rental store? Now, our duty is to scroll past that "Are you still watching?" message on Netflix, making us question our life choices.
We all have that duty to remember people's names, right? But let's be real, my brain treats names like it's playing a game of hide and seek. I meet someone, they say their name, and my brain's like, "Alright, let's see if you can find that in the haystack of useless information you call memories.
Have you ever been in a public restroom and accidentally made eye contact with someone through that little crack in the door? Now there's this unspoken duty to never mention it if you see them outside. It's like bathroom-eye-contact-amnesia.
There's this unspoken duty when you're in an elevator with only one other person. You both do the elevator stare, pretending the other person doesn't exist. It's like we've collectively agreed that acknowledging each other would somehow break the elevator's delicate social balance.

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