The Sincerity Emergency Hotline
4 min readAug 11, 2018
- Hi, how can I help you?
- Hi, I really like to collect action figures.
- They are called toys sir.
- No no, they are collectibles.
- No sir, they are toys, and you are a big baby.
- I’m not a big baby!
- Please, sir, I need you to say: I’m a big baby. Are you a big baby?
- I’m a…
- Please, sir, repeat with me: I’m a big baby, and I like my little toys.
- I’m a big baby…
- Sir?
- … and I like my little toys.
- Susan here, how can I help you?
- It’s been 3 days, and he didn’t message me back. Should I restart the conversation?
- He is not busy. He just doesn’t wanna talk to you.
- He has a very demanding job and…
- Not busy.
- No, his cat was sick and…
- Not busy.
- But his sister….
- Not busy.
- Good morning, how can I help?
- Hi, my name is Dave, and I was wondering if I’m a douchebag because I always complain about having to talk to my Uber driver?
- Yes, you are Dave.
- How can I help you?
- I know it’s 2018. But I love the joke “That’s what she said.”
- Ok. I will have to ask you some questions. Did you watch The Office recently and thought that we were laughing with Michael and not at him?
- No.
- Do you have friends that drink beer from a tube while they are upside down and use the word “rad”?
- No.
- Do you say it ironically because you think it contrasts your personality, but we all know that it doesn’t?
- I don’t think so.
- Are you socially awkward and for some reason find everything sex-related really funny?
- Yes.
- Ok. Number 4. Give me a second.
- How many options are there?
- 27 options sir.
- And each one has a different answer?
- No, they all have the same one: Stop doing this! You look like a fucking idiot and if people around you are laughing is / 1. because they are also misogynist pieces of shit / 2. because they are too kind and they will nervously chuckle to avoid a conflict or / 3. because it’s 2018 and they are laughing at you, at how sad your existence is. That’s what I said. I’m Susan.
- Hi, how can I help you today?
- I’m only buying metal straws from now on. To save the oceans. Am I a better person?
- You definitely are, as long as you never talk about this or bring this in a conversation ever again in your life.
- Sincerity Hotline, good afternoon.
- Hi, I’m Tristan.
- Hello Tristan, what’s your inquiry?
- Should I buy ethereum? I heard that the developers are using it.
- …
- Hello?
- Hi, how can I help you in this average day?
- Hi, I feel that I’m barely scraping by on breathing. I’m just skimming on my days and sinking in my chest at night. Is it ever gonna get better?
- Soon you will be dead and me too.
- Hello, my name is Susan, how I can probably not really help you because for sure you think you know everything and is not really open to accepting a second opinion, but still wanna talk about you.
- Sorry, wrong number.
- Hey, I met this person outside a bar, and the person talked a lot about their hobby as an analog photographer. I felt terrible about my corporate job. Should I?
- If you wanna survive in the Instagram era, definitely! You need to have a hobby that not only you enjoy, but you also should make some money out of it and not really care about the money that you are making. Like a tattoo side business or a serigraph print with some loose art that it looks like you didn’t put that much effort into it.
- I just like to watch tv in my spare time.
- You are doomed, sir.
- Hi there, Susan here.
- Hello Susan, I really wanna become an e-sports personality and have my own twitch channel with millions of followers. Should I do it?
- That’s great, I really wanna quit my job at this call center and open an overpriced vegan gourmet coffee shop while I write the next Harry Potter. Do you see me doing that?
- No, I don’t know, why?
- Because I have bills to pay. Do you have bills to pay?
- Yes.
- Are you 16?
- No.
- Then good luck.
- Howdy friend.
- Hey, I have a drone, do people wanna see my footage?
- Nope.
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