Just overheard this today in the break-room.
“I sent my Dad a Snopes article about that. His response? Well, you can’t believe everything your read on the internet.”
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Already posted in a different thread, but…
I was in a bookstore yesterday, and there were 4 or 5 young women perusing magazines. They were cute, but didn’t seem particularly scholarly. One of them held up a magazine that showed the newest hair fashion for women: Spock Bangs.
“Look, Cindy. Spock bangs!”
“Who?”
“You know, like Mr. Spock.”
“Huh?”
“Duh! From Star Wars!”
Overheard from an eighteen-year-old: “The government! Everything they give you’s a ripoff!”
(talking about her Jobcorps experience and the poor quality uniform she was given to wear in training.)
This one is from a few years back, but one day at work I was walking past the break room and heard the guy who fills the vending machines telling someone “I don’t know why everyone is so down on George Bush. He’s a Rhodes Scholar too, you know.”
I was about to turn around and go back and set him straight, but I just laughed and kept walking.
Walking past a house the other day I could hear a child’s voice say “… and THAT’S the way you talk to rabbits!”.
I still remember the manager who bragged that his Global Crossing stock was doing so well he was putting everything he had into it.
That was about a month before it crashed.
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Father and son walking on a sidewalk at the end of the day. Son is maybe 4 or 5, and speaking in a dealy serious voice:
“…and then we had graham crackers, and then…”
Father and daughter, maybe 7, on the train:
Father: “We need to pick your mother up at the store.”
Daughter: “May God have mercy on our souls!”
Ah, great moments in adorableness.
A whole collection of these:
Overheard at the mall last night:
Parent: Get back here, young man, or I’ll clean your clock!
Boy, age 4-5ish: Oh yeah? Well I’ll clean your clothes! I’ll clean your living room!
Ten years ago, but I’ll never forget that it illustrated perfectly for me why a female jackass is called a “jenny.”*
Jenny: I’d never send my kids to public school in California. Too many gay rights.
*Sorry, TubaDiva. No hard feelings?
Kids playing in the yard next door. Speaker was a girl of about seven.
“I’m Queen of the world and you have to do what I tell you!!!”
On the train, the girl across from me called someone on her phone.
“Hey baby, it’s me.” Pause “It’s Brooke.” Pause “Brooke!”
I want that kid! 