Archive for the 'Overheard' Category

My kind

April 21, 2008

Leaving the city fitness center, I’m walking behind two young men and two young women whom I assume are students at the high school next to the fitness center. One of the young men holds the door for me, and I thank him. As I head to my car, I hear the same [...]

Signs

February 4, 2008

On the wall in the bathroom at the hospital lab (I had a sonogram today — not for pregnancy, for Woman Health Things that shall be left inexplicit for the sake of any male readers I might possibly have. And just for seemliness.) So, back to the wall of the bathroom:
A handmade-looking color-printed [...]

Overheard while in the dressing room at T.J. Maxx

January 19, 2008

‘Tween-sounding kid to parent-sounding adult:
Kid: “At the [such-and-such-Disney-resort-spa,] it costs [one-thousand-and-something-dollars] for one night!
Parent: “Do they include air?”
Kid: “You mean like air to breathe?”
Parent: “Yeah.”
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College girl to other college girl:
Girl 1: “Did I tell you my grandmother once paid for me to see a fashion consultant? She told me [...]