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#1 job interview question of the former VP of Human Resources at Microsoft
- That the cherry blossoms have reached peak bloom.
- That hand soap removes ketchup stains from clothing.
- That a whole industry wants me to worry about the scent of my vagina.
- That the word for cherry blossom, Sakura, comes from saku 咲, which also means “smile” and “laugh.”
- That Heinz released a special edition condiment: Tomato Blood.
- That Gwyneth Paltrow wants me to buy a vagina-scented candle.
- That a Wisconsin school district banned a Dolly Parton song because it mentions rainbows.
- That the 口 in 咲 indicates an open mouth.
- That you can order a cherry blossom-scented douche from Amazon.com.
- That one of my students slit his wrists in eighth grade, convinced there was no place in this world for a gay Black man.
- That the gamers who designed Call of Duty met gun manufacturers at a shooting range in Nevada to record the precise sounds of AR-15s.
- That soap doesn’t work on blood no matter how hard you scrub.
- That according to Google AutoComplete, the most commonly-searched questions include “Why are AR-15s legal?” and “Why are AR-15s so expensive?”
- That we should stop using the term “bullet points.”
- That cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting nature of life.
- That Nevada isn’t pronounced with an “ah” but more nasally: “Nevada,” like the a in “ammunition” and “capitalism” and “casket.”
