"No, I'm fine with her, I like her even for short visits, it's just sometimes... she's too much. I mean, it's just like alcohol: a little is good, fun, too much and you'll puke."
"Yeah... Not to mention the fact that she's usually drunk."
--Two girls waiting in line to buy tickets at the bart station.

"It's so genuine, and natural. There's just a certain... purity about it."
"Hey, it's just a smoothie."
--Two guys outside of Juice Appeal

"And after 5 minutes she tells my that my putter was obviously obsolete."
--A man about 50 years old, talking to another guy in line at the ATM

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...And so I'm wondering, was he talking to a golf pro about his swing, or was he talking to a new woman in his life?

"Life's gotta suck if you're the CEO of 'Tasty Kake' Industries."
--A guy in Safeway supermarket at 1am, staring at the snack foods

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I don't know... I'm sure you could make that into SOME kind of feasible pickup line.
"Why, you look pretty yummy, and I should know, I'm the CEO of..."
Ok, yeah, maybe he's right.

"Well, as Grandma used to say, let's go have some bunion onion soup."
--A customer overheard in the women's shoe department of Macy*s

"It's like Fargo... only even more fucked up. Man, 5 people dead, for $100,000... that's not even a house. And they were going to split it 3 ways, that's only... 33k each. They killed 5 innnocents for the price of a Honda. I hate people."
--A woman overheard downtown, on a recent violent event in the Bay Area.

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This is more serious than InPassing usually is... but I felt it was worth including, because I felt similarly about the tragedy.
The worst part is that now one of the alleged killers is trying to sell his story for $400,000.

"You should call Alice and request Urine Notion."
"WHAT?"
"You know... 'cause the CD's not out yet, but the radio stations have the single."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Alice... KLLC, the radio station. Ask them to play Urine Notion, you said like yesterday you wanted to hear it... you know, the new single by Fastball..."
*pause*
"YOU'RE AN OCEAN! You mean the song You're an Ocean!"
"Yeah, ok... I guess the lyrics make more sense now... I always thought it was just kinky."
--Two girls overheard at a cafe

"And somewhere around here is Tower Records... let's see if we can ask where it is."
--A 40-something man talking to his family who was huddled around a map, standing at the corner of Telegraph and Channing in Berkeley

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Now this is far more amusing if you know Berkeley, and know that the guy was standing in front of Rasputin Music, a fully decent record store as he spoke. He was also one block away from Amoeba, one of the most awesome record stores around that has fair prices too. Tower records is a huge chain store, who sells primarily the CDs on MTV's TRL top 10, at $20 a pop.

"Naw, it's my sis. She's awesome like that, always prepared for anything. The type of girl that if it was raining meatballs worldwide, she'd be the one with a fork."
--Overheard outside 'Acapulco,' a Mexican restaurant

"If that cat is named Sandy Claws, I'm going to be ill."
--A woman who didn't seem to think the magazine picture of a cat wearing jingle bells was cute