Overheard conversations in public places sometimes make me want to throw my hands over my ears and cry out, "Lah lah lah, I can't hear you! I'M NOT HEARING YOU!"
Examples:
Between two college-aged girls in a book store:
Girl #1 "Is fiction true or not true?"
Girl #2 "I always remember it as "non-fiction" is "not-true."
Girl #1 "Oh, yeah. That's a good way to remember it."
Among a group of "simple country folk" at a McDonald's in Andrews, North Carolina:
"She was E-VILLL! I know she used to kill our kittens with her high-heeled shoes. And she killed the dog by waitin' for a truck to come, and then throwin' a ball out in the road for him to fetch."
Lah, lah, lah--I can't hear you.
1 Things not left unsaid:
Why oh why didn't you correct those ignorant girls? Or at least laugh out loud at them?
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