With the roll-out of my new WordPress-powered website, I will now post overheard dialogue items as blog entries. This long blog entry is my way of archiving the old items (which used to be on one page) up to this point.
Several years ago, I briefly overheard three young women chatting. One of them said, “And this is my sister Sunshine from Santa Cruz.” That was all I heard. Here are a bunch of similar snippets that I’ve noted of things that I overhear. All items were overheard in Seattle, unless noted otherwise.
“ . . . If all I want is coffee. . .then that’s my business . . . ”
5th & Stewart, 9/2/06, 9:00 a.m.
“ . . . he’s adding another point of view to the sandwich board . . . ”
Folklife, 5/24/03, 4:00 p.m.
“ . . . it’s a big pile of . . . stuff . . . ”
older tourist-ey looking woman at Folklife, explaining the EMP to her friend, 5/23/03, 2:30 p.m.
“ . . . Changing the theme. Changing the theme would be . . . ”
Fremont, in front of Habitude, 4/16/03, 1:50 p.m.
“ . . . I do 50 miles [gasp], and I never even [gasp] feel it . . . ”
jogger to friend on University Bridge, 1/5/03, 10:20 a.m.
“ . . . he’s not gonna give you a foot massage . . . ”
big burly guy wearing UO baseball cap to his equally big friend (on way to Seahawks game?), 1st Ave. S., 12/22/02, 12:45 p.m.
“ . . . it’s so much easier to play Tetris . . . ”
Amtrak Train #507, Portland-Eugene, 11/27/02
“ . . . let’s get going before traffic gets bad . . . ”
Seattle Center, 9/11/02, 2:30 p.m.
“ . . . I don’t really know why I thought it would be a good idea . . . ”
3rd Ave. S. & S. Main, 6/20/02, 1:25 p.m.
“ . . . My best friend is on her way to Australia . . . ”
Safeco Field home plate entrance, 10/4/01, 6:05 p.m.
“ . . . That’s enough of that. You’ll either find your brake or perish in flames . . . ”
Metro 256 driver to tailgater near entrance to S. Kirkland Park & Ride, 8/22/01
“ . . . where’s my underwear? . . . where’s my left shoe? . . . ”
coming from a house on N. Lucas Pl., 6/4/01
“ . . . it’s Aerosmith-style cheesy, but . . . ”
Westlake Center, 5/22/01
“ . . . it’s all based on commissions . . . ”
10/28/00
“ . . . cars, computers, and food. What more do you need? . . . ”
2nd & Pike, 10/24/00
“ . . . so it may actually implode . . . the whole thing . . . ”
On The Boards, 2/12/00
“ . . . If I only had a brain . . . I would think of so many things . . . ”
guy singing, Occidental Ave. S., 1/19/00
“ . . . and if he dies, I get the property . . . ”
woman to friend at Greenlake, 1/8/00
“ . . . CIA bastards . . . ”
Metro 5, 1/5/00
“ . . . because I dropped my mitten . . . ”
“ . . . like logos . . . and . . . fun things, you know . . . ”
“ . . . Why look at the sun when I can sit on the other side of the bus and look at a reflection of the sun? . . . ”
Metro 26 Express, 12/28/99, 4:00 p.m.
“ . . . Remember when you were feeding me M&Ms and Mommy was giving me my cool haircut? . . . ”
Still Life, 12/17/99
“ . . . as soon as they see clean clothes they think, ‘This mothaf**ka got money’ . . . ”
Pioneer Square
“ . . . my homeboy’s got a master key . . . ”
6th & Virginia
“ . . . I was throwing up . . . ”
“ . . . available? You think someone’s going to be available in three weeks? . . . ”
“ . . . A lot of masseuses are belly dancers in Seattle . . . ”
“ . . . the Kennedy jokes. I love that . . . ”
“ . . . I’m so not into having a relationship . . . ”
“ . . . and I didn’t have a very good experience . . . ”
woman at Greenlake, 9/2/99
“ . . . said he worked for Phillip Morris for a few years . . . ”
Greenlake, 9/2/99
“ . . . she was one of 18 kids. They’ve been fighting over . . . ”
Market St., San Francisco, 8/7/99
“ . . . he bench-pressed me with one hand the other day . . . ”
UW student to her friend, 6/30/99
“ . . . I know a lot of sad guys, and they’re all great musicians . . . It’s the only way they know to express themselves . . . ”
Breitenbush Hot Springs
“ . . . if you’re swimming you can get caught up in it and drown . . . ”
Greenlake, 5/4/99
“ . . . Welcome to this country . . . Welcome to this country . . . Welcome to this country . . . ”
blind woman to Asian woman helping her get on Metro 7
“ . . . so you know what I do? I drop my bag and say, ‘Keep walking, motherfu**er.’ That’s the only language they understand . . . ”
guy in suit with a semi-Fu Man Chu moustache wearing an Australian bush hat and ratty $10 shoes to a woman and her kid, Metro downtown
“ . . . I’m excited about George Bush, Jr. . . . ”
downtown Seattle, 12/98
“ . . . Sharon! Sharon! C’mon! I’m a helicopter and Amy’s a bird. What are you gonna be? . . . ”
girl at Seattle Center waving a long licorice whip over her head
“ . . . I’m just as treacherous as he is, but I’m not gonna hurt him, and he’s not gonna hurt me . . . can’t even own one . . . I gave up with his sister. He used to let his sister come play with me . . . they broke her leg and her arm and her neck. Then, in 1991, he killed her . . . ”
Metro 2 Express, 1/10/94
“ . . . He passes the mustard with me . . . ”
“ . . . I’m so used to being ignored, I don’t even notice it anymore . . . ”
woman in Middle Eastern restaurant on Ventura Blvd., LA, 3/4/93
“ . . . and this is my sister Sunshine from Santa Cruz . . . ”
Oregon Country Fair, 1987
“ . . . I’m not standing here because I want to be standing here . . . Think about it . . . ”
big, disheveled guy, 27th St & 2nd Ave, New York, 6/24/87
“ . . . Did you make the machine out? . . . ”
I think he meant, “Did you turn it off?”
“ . . . Are you God?! . . . ”
guy waving arms in middle of intersection, 23rd & Park, New York
“ . . . Would you close already? Thank you! . . . ”
big woman with green mohawk talking to elevator, Flatiron Building, New York
“ . . . Yo! Jesus says repent! Or there’s gonna be an earthquake around here . . . ”
tiny evangelist guy with bullhorn, 23rd & Lex, New York, 4/15/86
“ . . . She was white, so I don’t care how she felt . . . ”
“ . . . Dive for the dogs! . . . ”
kids on beach at Seaside, OR
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