The one about hope.
I've been in a position several times recently where I have been asked what I do. To which I replied, "Do about what, exactly?," which I think is funny and they never do. It turns out, when people asked that, they mean, "What is your occupation?", and I don't have a good answer for that. The closest I come these days is "storyteller", which is somehow both true and not helpful, either to them understanding what I do, or to my getting paid work that…
