More overheard and overseen
Aug. 13th, 2005 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonant"Look at the baby. She's dreaming about smart ballerinas and powerful businesswomen."
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Sign on a jar of tea at the coffee shop: "It's me! Decaf orange cinnamon!"
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"The more electronics they get, the more monstrous they become."
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And from a coffee shop worker who has another job at a bar: "The rest of the nights, the guys have to wear ties, but not on Country Night. Because there are a lot of bar fights on Country Night, and the first thing the guys do when a fight breaks out is to take off their ties."
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"Holy Mary mother of cinnamon rolls!"
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"Nobody's going to *die.* You don't have game shows where people *die.*"
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At the Fair:
"Look. That booth is selling 'Freedom Fries.' "
"Well, when you look at things on a cosmic scale, we're really very close to primordial slime. So you shouldn't be surprised."
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Sign on a jar of tea at the coffee shop: "It's me! Decaf orange cinnamon!"
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"The more electronics they get, the more monstrous they become."
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And from a coffee shop worker who has another job at a bar: "The rest of the nights, the guys have to wear ties, but not on Country Night. Because there are a lot of bar fights on Country Night, and the first thing the guys do when a fight breaks out is to take off their ties."
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"Holy Mary mother of cinnamon rolls!"
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"Nobody's going to *die.* You don't have game shows where people *die.*"
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At the Fair:
"Look. That booth is selling 'Freedom Fries.' "
"Well, when you look at things on a cosmic scale, we're really very close to primordial slime. So you shouldn't be surprised."
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Date: 8/13/05 05:30 pm (UTC)...And ain't that a shame?
Seriously, I friended you because you're a helluva writer, but I kept you friended because I love those "overheard" things you post (and, yeah, because you're a helluva writer).
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Date: 8/13/05 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/13/05 05:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/13/05 05:56 pm (UTC)"I want to know what these are...I have these small, bug-like creatures in my hair but they can't be lice because I don't have children."
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Date: 8/13/05 06:29 pm (UTC)::hands you a perfect iced triple-shot cappucino::
where do you live?
Date: 8/13/05 06:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/13/05 08:10 pm (UTC)ahahah. that should be quoted much more extensively than just in my away message, but i guess we all do what we can.
*puts it in an away message*
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Date: 8/13/05 08:14 pm (UTC)> "Well, when you look at things on a cosmic scale, we're really very close to primordial slime. So you shouldn't be surprised."
This is an exchange, right? Hee.
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Date: 8/13/05 09:17 pm (UTC)Does this count? :~)
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Date: 8/13/05 11:09 pm (UTC)Yum! What store sells this? I can't have caffeine and I love flavored tea.
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Date: 8/14/05 12:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/14/05 12:35 am (UTC)I love that. I may have to put it on an icon. And the one about electronics just screams McKay to me.
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Date: 8/14/05 01:09 am (UTC)(And also reassuring; I like reading weird things about people's lives, in nice short low-attention-span-o-vision, but I'm never sure whether other people enjoy them or just roll their eyes and scroll. Which would be OK, too, of course.)
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Date: 8/14/05 01:10 am (UTC)Ballerinas tried to steal your job, though? That sounds like a story.
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Date: 8/14/05 01:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/14/05 01:14 am (UTC)I should have known better, though, since there was a girl in my college dorm who literally thought she couldn't be out of money because she still had checks.
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Date: 8/14/05 01:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/14/05 01:23 am (UTC)On the other hand, if you came here, I'd have somebody to talk to that I wasn't married to and didn't give birth to, so. Good for me, bad for you, I'd say.
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Date: 8/14/05 01:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/14/05 01:26 am (UTC)Actually I'm pretty sure that either Bigelow or Celestial Seasonings has a decaf/herbal orange cinnamon.
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Date: 8/14/05 01:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 8/14/05 01:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/14/05 01:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/14/05 01:49 am (UTC)Btw, I spent the evening rereading your fic. I got sucked in because I had been jonsing for the slavefic story with the forehead vegetable dye thing and it turned out to be yours.
I wanted to say that, as much as I completely adore Lifetime Event, I always have to make a conscious effort to get over that they could be together 6 years before they get the idea to have sex together. I found your version to be much more logical.
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Date: 8/14/05 08:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
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