Overheard and overseen

[resonant]

Mostly little tidbits I picked up on vacation.



Kidlet: "I go to school every day, but they never tell me what I need to know."
Me: "What do you need to know?"
Kidlet: "Plumbing. They never get into that."

Kidlet climbs a playground structure and meets a little girl at the top. The first thing the little girl says is: "May I take your order?"

Sign on a coffee shop bulletin board: "Mow and Blow Basic Yard Care."

Old guy in coffee shop: "Judaism is the religion of no wrong answers."

Seen in coffee shop: The difficult dance of trying to maneuver the stroller past the walker.

Old guy in coffee shop: "To take ten dollars and make it into twenty dollars is very difficult. To take ten million dollars and make it into twenty million dollars is inevitable."

Little boy at library: "Mom, may we please just get out of here? This place is trying to get me sick."

Woman walks into store with two little girls about 3. They both run up and embrace her legs. Then one of them looks over and sees that the other is hugging her, and she whacks her and says, "My mom!"

Teenaged boy lying on the sidewalk on Haight Street: "Got any change for beer and mushrooms?"

Seen in a doorway in San Francisco: a pile of pennies, one unlit cigarette, and a bottle of Vitamin C. Might have been a stash; might have been a memorial.

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

My problem with tires isn't that I don't know how; it's that I'm afraid I wouldn't have enough hand strength.

[jaebi-lit.livejournal.com]

It's "just a matter of leverage," to quote PotC, less hand strength and more body momentum torque stuff. If you tried to loosen the nuts with just your hand strength, you'd probably hurt your wrist. When we were rotating the tires, my dad and brother could easily get the nuts loose with upper body strength, while I had to throw my whole weight behind the wrench-thingy or step on it.

[neery.livejournal.com]

If you have the right kind of wrench, you don't need any hand strength at all -- I can simply kick against the end of the wrench to get the nuts loose.

[indywind]

Doesn't need hand strength--you can jump up and down on the lug wrench or kick it.