resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Overheard)
resonant ([personal profile] resonant) wrote2008-02-25 11:02 am
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Overheard and overseen

Me: They've canceled Ash Wednesday services because of the bad weather.
Spouse: They don't want people to return to dust sooner than necessary?



'Plummet' is not a word you want to hear in your weather forecast.

I learned that early in the restaurant business. Never pay more than three bucks for anything you wear to work.

Soap is good. Soap is cheaper than soup.

Kidlet: If you run over Carmen and she's dead, can I have her head?

Girls, about twelve, at the skating rink:
You won't buy me a real green dress?
No, because that's cruel.
Oh, God, not you too.

What year are you?
Um ... more than a junior but not quite a senior.

Cute couple in matching glasses at coffee shop:
So why you wanna make me hate you like that?
I, uh, actually didn't know you hated me until you said that.

Choir director: Everybody got a Messiah?
Elderly alto: We really only need one Messiah.

Kidlet: Do you have one more hug for me?
Me: I have an infinite supply of hugs.
Kidlet: Of course, your supply of hugs runs out when you're dead.
[Spouse, when I report this conversation: I was thinking exactly the same thing.]

At the vet:
Me: What's his name?
Other person with cat carrier: His name is cat.tif. And the former owner must have been a computer-lover, because he has a sister named cat.jpg.
Me: OK, I have to ask: Is the sister a lot smaller than he is?
Other person: Yup, she's compressed.

At the coffee shop:
Ma'am, would you warm me up?
No, but I will refill your coffee cup.

Me: Hey, we're not watching the Oscars.
Spouse: Thank God.
Me: You know, one of these days we're going to turn into some kind of hermetically sealed ball of crankiness with no contact with the outside world.
Spouse: Going to turn into?

[identity profile] fer-de-lance.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Kidlet: If you run over Carmen and she's dead, can I have her head?

...It's frightening how similar my thought processes are to those of your kidlet. And I don't even know who Carmen is.

[identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com 2008-02-28 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
She gets the morbid stuff from the spouse, I swear. These things never occur to me.

[identity profile] fer-de-lance.livejournal.com 2008-03-01 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Morbid? Maybe. For me it's just curiosity (okay, maybe the rest of the universe would say "morbid curiosity"); I'm a biology-related major, after all. :D Body parts fascinate me; there are bird wings on my coffee table and I keep having this random thought that I should learn taxidermy, just for entertainment value and a few extra bucks...