Housemate: Drove by Yankee Stadium…saw a lot of things.
Housemate 2: Just drove by?
Housemate: Absolutely! I don’t want to be in the middle of that mess. It’s like hell.
Housemate 2: ??
Housemate: I’d like to see hell, I just don’t want to be there.
Archive for the ‘Overheard’ Category
Overheard: At my Dinner Table (possibly paraphrased)
Posted in Overheard, tagged Eavesdropping, Overheard on 12 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Overheard – At the Hospital
Posted in Overheard on 30 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, it is so cold! And I have a lot of mayonnaise in my pocket.
Overheard: In the hospital
Posted in Overheard on 25 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
Walking toward the cafeteria, I have to slow to avoid a group of women taking up the whole hallway. They must be from the same floor, all wearing the same color scrubs and chat-chat-chatting about a department meeting. “A mass exodus,” one laughs as they move toward the elevators. Another latches on to something in [...]
La Picadura de Garrapata
Posted in Overheard, Small Moments, tagged Mosquitoes, Overheard, Small Moments on 14 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was another long day of sitting and reading. I am hoping this is because of my foot and not because they think I like sitting around doing next to nothing all day. I did hear they will be putting me to work on Monday, so that is good news. There are no more relevant [...]
Small Moments, Big Question
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Overheard, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Clinicals, Community, Small Moments on 12 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning road trips. Wondering what to wear, what book to read aloud in the car. Imagining listening to the radio on scan and laughing at small things glimpsed through small windows.
Reading instrument manuals and package inserts, trying to learn principles. After the tenth word is written in the margin with a question mark behind it, [...]
Overheard: Passing by an office
Posted in Overheard on 10 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Woman: I wonder if turtles get depressed. They just look depressed, y’know?
An Actual Conversation: Somewhere in Jersey
Posted in Overheard on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Girl holding lemonade glass: I like porcupines better than Abraham Lincoln.
Boy who is not a Sox fan: Oh, but come on! Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves!
Overheard: Somewhere in New York
Posted in Overheard on 26 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pensive man: Henry Rollins bothers me on a very deep level.
Overheard: At the Resale Shop
Posted in Overheard, tagged Eavesdropping, Overheard, Peter Tork on 16 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Customer: I wonder what size pants Peter Tork wears.
An Actual Conversation
Posted in Overheard, Small Moments on 12 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Me: I have settled on orbit orange. It is traffic cone orange. Only brighter
Friend Far Away: Is that an orange that says, vibrant, happy, assertive or an orange that says, please take care when diverting around me?
Me: I think it would be both.
