Janey, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and blackmailed him for almost sixty-thousand dollars. Would you please pass the asparagus?

A report of quitting, insulting a boss and blackmailing him is followed by a request for asparagus. The abrupt return to table manners supplies the comic contrast. Extraordinary behaviour is placed beside an ordinary dining request, as though both belonged naturally in the same conversation.

Context reviewed 23 September 2026