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==Summary==

Principal [[Angela Li]] announces that all students at Lawndale High are required to participate in Career Observance Day, a mentoring program where each student spends a day with a professional in his or her chosen field. [[Quinn]] has chosen to work as a live mannequin in a clothing store window. [[Daria]] and [[Jane]] decide to shadow [[Trent]] for a day, but their choice is vetoed by Ms. Li and their mentors are instead chosen for them. Daria is assigned to spend the day with [[James Crumwall]], a crossing guard for [[Lawndale Elementary]], while Jane is forced to work with interior designer [[Gloria Rothfelder]].

Principal [[Angela Li]] announces that all students at Lawndale High are required to participate in Career Observance Day, a mentoring program where each student spends a day with a professional in his or her chosen field. [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] has chosen to work as a live mannequin in a clothing store window. [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Jane Lane|Jane]] decide to shadow [[Trent Lane|Trent]] for a day, but their choice is vetoed by Ms. Li and their mentors are instead chosen for them. Daria is assigned to spend the day with [[James Crumwall]], a crossing guard for [[Lawndale Elementary]], while Jane is forced to work with interior designer [[Gloria Rothfelder]].

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Daria's day with Mr. Crumwall starts out as an exercise in humiliation. She is forced to don a bright orange vest and sit on the corner next to someone who, on the surface, seems to be an uninteresting old man. However, after spending some time with him, she finds him to be a fascinating gentleman who has had a rich life and who shares Daria's sharp wit and, oddly enough, her disdain for children. He admits that he is glad to have her there, since it can get very lonely sitting out on that corner by himself. During their day together, they bond over stories of his life and his genuine interest in hers. When he asks her about her love life, she admits to her crush on "a musician," something she ordinarily wouldn't admit to anyone, let alone someone she just met.

Since there are very few children in need of their services, they decide at one point to leave their post to get something to drink. At the [[Stop 'N Spend]] they run into [[Upchuck]], who is there shadowing the manager of the convenience store, which his father owns. Daria brushes off Upchuck's usual advances, and James is outwardly disgusted by his behavior. He is also incredibly relieved when he discovers that Upchuck is not, in fact, the "musician" Daria mentioned earlier.

Since there are very few children in need of their services, they decide at one point to leave their post to get something to drink. At the [[Stop 'N Spend]] they run into [[Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III|Upchuck]], who is there shadowing the manager of the convenience store, which his father owns. Daria brushes off Upchuck's usual advances, and James is outwardly disgusted by his behavior. He is also incredibly relieved when he discovers that Upchuck is not, in fact, the "musician" Daria mentioned earlier.

Meanwhile, Jane's experience is vastly different. Mrs. Rothfelder is a pretentious, hateful woman, and Jane is immediately met with hostility and given a strict set of rules about how to conduct herself in the office. When Jane fires back, she is exiled from the woman's office and forced to sit in the waiting room instead. There, she strikes up a conversation with Gloria's secretary, [[Cassandra (On Guard)|Cassandra]], who reminds her a lot of Daria both in appearance and demeanor.