Overheard and overseen

[resonant]

At Thanksgiving dinner: "It reflects and reinforces."
"Like duct tape!"



Kidlet: "I don't ever want to be the person whose job it is to run towards the screaming."

Kidlet's friend, carrying the kitten: "Look what the human dragged in."

"I want all the junk together, and I want it to stay in the same place all day long." -- the Hilarious Bastard, rejecting boxer shorts.

At Starbucks: "People who work here get strange drink ideas. Eventually I have to say, 'No, I am not steaming any more lemonade.' "
"Which was awesome."

Kidlet: “Who do they slash Loki with?”
Me: “Mostly his brother.”
Kidlet [considering]: “That’s OK, though. Gods don’t have genetics.”

"Argentina's good for two things: beef and Nazis."

"Nothing is weirder than boredom." -Barbara Sher

Kidlet: "K's baby sister is so cute. You wouldn't believe how cute this kid is."
Me: "Kidnapping your friends' siblings is against the rules."
Kidlet: "I know. Anyway, M already called her."

Kidlet trips over cat toy, says to underfoot cat: "Everything you touch becomes like you."

Kidlet with new iPod: "You know technology is advanced when the instructions for the thing weigh more than the thing itself."

"Carol, do you want to be the dungeon or the dragon tonight?"

"I don't know what I want my big-girl job to be."

"And they all have this spiritual little monkey-holding ceremony ..."

Kidlet's friend K: "One time I dreamed there were all these Beanie Babies and they were going around decapitating people."
Kidlet's friend J, excitedly: "I had that exact same dream except it was watermelons!"

"Does he work every day?"
"He doesn't work any day."

Comments

[exceptinsects]

I want to hang out with the kidlet and her friends. They sound like a tween Algonquin Round Table. :-)

[resonant]

They're all pretty clever. One kid pulled back the couch cushion, found a stash of candy wrappers under there, and said, "It's like the Death of Halloween in here."

On the other hand, their conversation is about 70% about One Direction.

[exceptinsects]

I'm sure Dorothy Parker would totes have been into One Direction if only she had lived long enough.

[cesperanza]

"I don't ever want to be the person whose job it is to run towards the screaming.

OK, this is the most brilliant thing ever said by anyone! LOL <<<3 KIDLET

[resonant]

She keeps me entertained, for sure.

[elynross]

I always love these posts SO MUCH. It's like knowing someone whose life has a really good writer! *g*

[resonant]

The really critical factor, of course, is a good editor -- this is the cream skimmed off the top of about thirteen months of eavesdropping.

[elynross]

Hee, yes, that's what I was thinking as I wrote: this is the compilation of months' worth, I bet.... Still. You dwell around folks with most excellent senses of humor.

[out_there]

"And they all have this spiritual little monkey-holding ceremony ..."

I think the image of that may stay with me for a while. *giggles*

[resonant]

I have no clue whatsoever what they were talking about.

[tevere]

Kidlet: "I don't ever want to be the person whose job it is to run towards the screaming."

Ahahaha, what was the context for this? A horror movie or a more real-life tragic scenario? Personally, I could probably run towards, say, a car accident (not that I'd be much help), but if it's zombies snacking on the innocent shoppers at the Mall of America, I'm totally running the other way.

[resonant]

I think we were watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Buffy does not have an enviable job.

[greyeyes]

"Carol, do you want to be the dungeon or the dragon tonight?"

I love that. And I still don't know what I want my big-girl job to be!

Kidlet is hilarious and has good points.

[resonant]

I'd love to know the context of the dungeon/dragon comment, but it was one of those things that you hear over the shelf at Starbucks.

[elementals_ao3]

*adores* Overheard is one of my favorite things on the entire internets :D

The kidlet sounds so much like my 15yo & 11yo when they get going. They keep us in stitches :)

[resonant]

I love listening to other people being clever!

[riverlight]

Kidlet: “Who do they slash Loki with?”
Me: “Mostly his brother.”
Kidlet [considering]: “That’s OK, though. Gods don’t have genetics.”

I think half of fandom is operating on this principle, really... *g*

[resonant]

Pretty much. And the other half are operating on the principle of: "That's OK, though. They're both hot."

[riverlight]

::grin:: And we all reap the benefits!