Quote:Please avoid telling your friends about your application because discretion is an essential part of working for the Security Service.
"Good morning, sir. You're Joseph Allen Nation?"
"Yes, sir"
"Please sit down.This meeting is entitled "What to say when asked" and is classified Top Secret. My name is Edward A. and that is classified Top Secret. You will not repeat or discuss even with your classmates the content of this meeting. All materials and information within are classified Top Secret and are not to be shared with anyone. Any questions?"
"So I can't tell all the hot girls I'm a spy?"
"No, you may not."
"But then what's the point?"
"The point of what?"
"The point of being a spy. I mean, that's the reason I came here.
" So you could say you were a spy?"
"Well, yeah, actually I've been telling people that for years."
"You been telling people you're a spy for years?"
"Yeah, the chicks love it. You know all secret codeword stuff and meetings in dark places. It gets them hot."
"Aren't you going to be a metals analyst?"
"Yeah, but I won't tell them the truth. God, all that paper all day long. No, I tell them about the shootouts at the warehouse."
"Um."
"Or the flying to Barcelona."
"The flying to..."
"See, I'm really married to this one, Marlene, but because I'm a spy I get to, you know, go on missions, spy a little for God and Country every couple of weeks for a day or two. That's when I go shag this Carolina and sometimes her sister too. That's when I say Barcelona."
"Er, But doesn't she mind?"
"Who the sister? Oh no, you mean Marlene. No, she's a patriot that one. It's Carolina and her sister that are causing me the troubles right now. I think I'm going to have to die again."
"Die?"
"Yeah, you know, get killed. Every once in a while things get too hot, if you know what I mean and I get killed."
"How does that work?"
"I send out the letter."
"The letter?"
" I have this letter I send out that regrets to inform blah, blah blah and that they should destroy any clothes or pictures they have of me for purposes of national security."
"And this works?"
"Like a charm. Then I just pick a different set of bars to go to or hang around with Marlene for six months or so. So you see I can't stop telling people I'm a spy, it would blow my whole setup."
"Well, you can't, you really are, using your term, a spy now and it's against policy and a crime to reveal any part of what you do."
"Well then, I quit."
"You can't quit just like that. There's a process. You'll have to be de-briefed."
'Hey, getting de-briefed was what I was after in the first place."
Joe