"Have they started the heart yet?"

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

Overheard as two nurses walked by at the hospital* today. Apparently there was a heart transplant going on. Hopefully some family is going home with good news.
I know we’ve done “overheard conversations” before, but this one was so unique, I just felt like posting it. Anyone got any really unexpected things they’ve overheard recently?

*My mom had a partial knee replacement done today. Everything went well…thanks for asking! Yes, she’s already been up, and walked to the door and back (with a walker).
ETA: The answer was no, not yet.

2

They were probably waiting for the thunderstorm to arrive so that Igor could raise the giant electrode on the roof.

3

Lots of opportunities for that today and tomorrow. I don’t intend to go back tomorrow to see if there is a new monster on the prowl, though.

4

Moving to MPSIMS as you asked.

5

Working across the street from the justice center, I hear some interesting cell-phone stuff. Usually along the lines of, “Yeah, it was less than an ounce.” or, “I TOLD YOU that guy looked like a cop!”

6

Big, dishevelled dude on the train: “Naw. It wasn’t the cops that killed him. It was the cop that shot him in the HEAD that killed him!”

Later in that same conversation–“Maaaan! You got a court date and you didn’t even tell me? What da FUCK, man?!”

You might enjoy this site: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

For those of you who’d prefer a less NY-centric set of overheard weirdness: http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/

7

Not overheard, but directed to me one day many years ago when I walked into work:

*bright and perky delivery]

“The Fire’s Out!”

8

Passing a few homeless/hippie dudes smoking pot on the street in SF:

“Shiiit, man, you cut in like way too much coke in this shit.”

They weren’t referring to the soft drink.

9

Walking up to the Acropolis a few years back, middle-aged tourist to the guide:

“I don’t get it, if this building is so precious and important to you guys why do you leave it all broken up like that? It’s a wreck!”

10

Oakland woman on the phone, yelling at her girlfriend:

"Well if you’d been in the room hustling like you were supposed to, you wouldn’t have heard me call you a bitch! So it doesn’t count."