Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Listening to Strangers

Innis, second floor, is a good place to crash when you have those breaks that stretch their welcome. Is that even a common problem for university kids? I don't know. I've got such a tenuous hold on this pace anyway. I do my thing, and every one else does theirs and hopefully we both survive at the end. Innis is good because the place is lax and unwound and the students are all film buffs and eavesdropping on students who have invested OSAP dollars into watching movies is way more rewarding than eavesdropping on chemistry students, or math students, or whatever it is serious people with boring problems enroll in. I don't know. This was overheard, filtered, paraphrased, from snippets overheard on a quiet Monday afternoon. I have catching up to do. Nobody is ever going to offer me that money to work in Dubai at this rate.

He got a job offer in Dubai
Dubai
?
Yeah I know. As an oil technician
Man
I know
That’s insane
They’re going to pay him 500,000 a year
What?
And he still has to think about it
Only Greg would have to think about it
I know
What’s Deb saying about it?
If my fiancé got offered a 500,000 dollar a year thing in Dubai
I’d be all over it
To be fair it is a big change
Dubai
is half way around the world
And they’re getting married
It’s a lot to go through all at once
Still, 500,000
Yeah, still if someone gave me a ticket to Dubai
I’d take it
No hesitation?
None
Dubai
is like on the other side of the world
I wonder what it’s like to live there
Yeah it must be crazy over there
It’s a big decision
Deb’s dad thinks Greg is stupid
Really?
It’s such a big opportunity
Yeah if he doesn’t take it
Hey guys
Oh hey
Hi
What’s your take
On what
Have you heard about Greg?
Who?
He doesn’t know Greg
Oh yeah
Who?
Well whatever. If you were offered a job in Dubai for 500,000 a year would you take it
Depends on what it is I guess
Oil technician
Yeah oil work
I don’t know anything about that stuff
Well if you did know
Why would I ever know about that
Ok, like if Chapters offered you 500,000 to move to Dubai

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