I used to sell books in a college town and one day, this guy came in looking a little… off. He was attempting to dress up, but his suit was maybe 20 years out of date.

He looked and sounded like a burnout case, what my friends and I called “crispy around the edges”, he was a little bit fried.

“Hey man, do you have any resume books?”

“Sure, they’re right over here.”

“Do you have one that can tell me how to cover a gap in my resume?”

“Well, sure, but it depends on how big of a gap and what you were doing.”

#“I TOOK TEN YEARS OFF TO FOLLOW THE DEAD!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

"You know, in a lot of other towns, that could count against you, but here? You could list that and have a hiring manager go “DUUUUUDE! I WAS THERE TOO! SANTA MONICA BABY!!!”