Not every chat-up line is about a job, a hobby or a holiday. This page collects the ones about life in general — getting older, being tired, money, work, and the low-level chaos of ordinary existence. They are ranked by reader votes, and the ones that rise tend to be the honest ones, because shared exhaustion turns out to be a decent basis for a conversation. They work on anyone old enough to find the truth funnier than the fantasy, which is most people after about twenty-five.