Overheard conversations

[clare]

Yeah, you see people wandering around shouting and gesticulating wildly. it's hard to tell who's who. Sometimes the ones in the suits are on the phone, but not always.

[reebty]

These two happened a long time ago.

A woman looking at Big Ben asks her partner "is that Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower?"

Young man in a supermarket: "If I had the power of invisibility, I would be responsible for the murder of the entire Royal Family".   

[jebreject]

A middle-aged woman, walking with two or three other middle-aged women, a few feet behind a family with a teen or pre-teen girl: "You know what I had this weekend? Butt sex!"
 
The other women shush her immediately, pointing out that there is a child near them.

[Antero]

Do ladies seriously just throw that out in conversation with other ladies?  Is that how it works?

[clare]

It's possible that it was in jest. I know people (of that age) who would do that...

[FreddyKnuckles]

I do approve referring to it as "butt sex"

[auto-da-fey]

I'm not sure if these were related, but Sunday night, walking down 12th Street through the Gayborhood, I saw

1. Three guys walking where the only conversational snippet I caught was "... so I guess he really isn't circumsized ..."
and then

2. half-block south, a buff, studly young man with an average looking 50-something gent, where the older guy was saying "look, I really want to see it" in a whiny but commanding voice and the younger man was sighing, "I don't want to get arrested," while turning away from the street to clearly whip out his junk for the older man's perusal.

I was pretty curious about seeing it myself by that point, but there was no polite way to stop walking and crane my neck, so I just carried on past.

[auto-da-fey]

there are two dudes near me at this coffeeshop who are either on a date or doing an interview, maybe both, and the more talkative one has used the phrase "back in my blogging days" three times now and I am hoping he either leaves or chokes on a pretzel soon.

[lucky strike]

back in my blogging days, i would have had zero tolerance for that kind of shit

[auto-da-fey]

same coffee shop as my last post in this thread, this time a really obnoxious hetero-date behind me. it seemed like the dude was totally in, and then he made the mistake of offhandedly mentioning--this is verbatim--"I was technically already married once," and boy did the tenor shift. bad call, dude, even if your rapid qualifications about health insurance and it being a quick Vegas decision were solid efforts at backtracking.

[jm]

I guess that means he was technically already divorced once, too.  Technically.

[dumbfish]

The place I ate lunch at today had a first date in progress. Not sure how to score things, though. Does huge overlaughing by a woman mean the guy's in, or that she's humoring him until she can get away?

[nonotyet]

Depends on the lady, but I never laugh unless I am genuinely amused by something, no matter how foxy the dude is. And when I do laugh I sound like I am having an audible seizure, so.

[Aglaya]

I tend to laugh when I'm uncomfortable, but usually not uproariously.

[Anne the Man]

The other day I passed a woman who sneezed and went "Yes! Oh yesss!" and her friend said that most people walking along a street don't have that reaction to sneezing and will thus think her weird, and she said "oh man, I've been waiting for two days to sneeze..." Now whenever I sneeze I feel like punching the air.

[YojimboMonkey]

see: Judith Ivey's role in "The Lonely Guy" w/ Steve Martin.

[Good Intentions]

"What is the opposite of Williamson? Won't-you-aren't-daughter!"

"You have got a lot of free time, buddy."

[Anne the Man]

I'ma tell that joke to people drunkenly tonight

[clare]

Keep us posted on how it goes ;-)

[Anne the Man]

Sadly, it didn't go much. Not enough booze. Or rather, not enough awesome people. I did get given a free beer walking home, so that's something.

[G.C.R]

Why didn't you come to Mighty and see the Golden Awesome and have fun then? I was promised drunken texts, I seem to recall, and was disappointed.

[ellaguru]

Not quite an 'overheard conversation', but, scrawled on the chalkboard outside the Iranian restaurant yesterday: "We're about so much more than just enriched uranium". I could get behind that.

[dumbfish]

Handwritten note on a student's paper, while she was asking about something else:
"Remote controlled raptors"

[peacocks]

"What is the opposite of Williamson? Won't-you-aren't-daughter!"

"You have got a lot of free time, buddy."

brilliant

[mixed cats]

Handwritten note on a student's paper, while she was asking about something else:
"Remote controlled raptors"

I have made that note to myself several times because there is a thing called ROBORAPTOR that I wish to purchase and use to terrorize my cats, but the big nice one is $100 and I can't justify that