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[resonant]

Tomorrow morning it's off to North Carolina to celebrate my parents' 50th wedding anniversary! (Sometimes the thing that amazes me the most is that my mother was married in August, in the South, before air-conditioning, in a long-sleeved satin dress. After that ordeal, the marriage itself must be a breeze.)

I'll be back in a couple of weeks, and I'll probably be bringing fiction (I have a Hancock story almost ready for beta, and other things percolating happily in my brain), and meanwhile I leave you with the fruits of a couple of weeks of eavesdropping:

"I figured out what I want to do in life."
"What?"
"Retire."



"Baseball players' uniforms were flannel in those days. One guy told me on a hot day you'd take it off and it would be heavier than you were."

Tip jar at coffee shop: "Fear change? Leave it here."

Me: "But what would I do in Spain?"
Spouse: "Well, what do you do here?"
Me: "I go to a coffee shop, and I order things in English ... no, wait, actually I order things in Italian."

Me: "So there were this pair of elderly clowns -- a couple of clowns, I mean, a man and a woman ..."
Tech Goddess: "Agh! You can't put these pictures in my head?"
Me: "What?"
Tech Goddess: "Clown couples! Coupling!"
Me: "Man, I didn't imagine any such thing. These people were old."
Tech Goddess: "That's what balloon animals are for."

Me: "Does he communicate pretty well?"
Kidlet: "Yes, but he has a very heavy baby accent."

In the coffee shop: "The less keys you carry, the more important you are."

Kidlet: "I am so hungry. I am hungry enough to eat numerous fungi."

"Now I feel like there's something wrong with me."
"Well, there is."

"I know Rick Blaine in 'Casablanca' better thank I know myself. Rick is always Rick. I'm a bit iffy." -- Robert McKee, Story

Comments

[ngaio]

The concept of a 'heavy baby accent' is wonderful!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Also "numerous fungi". The kid is marvelous. :-)

[zulu]

my mother was married [...] before air-conditioning [...] After that ordeal, the marriage itself must be a breeze.

Ba dum dum ching!

[persephone-il.livejournal.com]

Tip jar at coffee shop

Reminds me of a tip jar at a train station coffee stand: "Ninjas have kidnapped my son! Help me pay the ransom."

[worn-words.livejournal.com]

your kidlet sounds adorable :)

[darklock.livejournal.com]

*puppy grins* Thanks for the giggles!!!

[abbylee]

I vote you keep your kidlet. <3

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

I know that I ran around like a crazy little kid in the hot summer southern heat and didn't think much about it... except that it was freaking hot...

Now? no air conditioning is unimaginable! so here I am... in the over heated south... again...

So, for *your* visit to sauna land? Stay cool!! =) and congrats to your parental units!!

[whatifisaidno.livejournal.com]

Have you ever looked at overheardeverywhere.com? It's really fun.

[aethereal-girl.livejournal.com]

. . .

Balloon animals . . .

. . .

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but he has a very heavy baby accent."

This makes so much sense! :O