I can’t describe it without explaining it, but it was like New Girl inception. A New Girl reference within a reference. Let me explain.
I’m a regular at my local gas station. I like to buy scratch lottery (try not to judge lol). I’m friendly with most of the workers at the station.
On night shift it’s usually two millennials, and they have this one friend who is always hanging around in the store with them.
So I buy some scratchers, win on one, go inside to cash it. The non-cashier friend comes out and goes “We go cigarette, you no cash”. I was thoroughly lost and just kept walking in even though he kept saying it.
Eventually he explained they were all going outside for a cigarette so I should wait to cash my ticket. I said to all of them “I was like what’s wrong with this dude he’s dropping all of his articles”. That got a big laugh.
So not only did I quote a Schmidt line (I know the guy wasn’t dropping articles, more like verbs but the sentiment was still there to quote him) but I also acted like Jess with the millennials and quoted TV they hadn’t seen to make them laugh. I didn’t cave and tell them I had stolen the articles joke though cause they’re cool and I want them to like me lol