23 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Sun, 05/23/2004 - 8:35pm. Beautiful
"These tickets are 6 months old."
"But we didn't use them then. It's the same flight number, today."
"And you want to use these tickets today for a flight that you missed in November?"
"Oh, we didn't miss it. We decided not to go. We'll need the same seats for today, my knee is bad."
--An airline check-in agent, and a passenger, seemingly talking to each other, but not really hearing anything.
21 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Fri, 05/21/2004 - 8:30pm. Funny
"Wait, are there two Starbucks in the mall? I just yelled at my friend for being late, and there are two Starbucks in this mall?"
"Maybe she knew she was late, so she went to the other one. To trick you."
"What kind of friends do you have? And where is the other Starbucks?"
--A girl and a barista at (surprisingly) Starbucks.
18 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Tue, 05/18/2004 - 8:30pm. Bizarre
"He asked, but I didn't feel comfortable taking off my socks. *pause* ....Not in front of the nurse." --A woman talking on a cell phone in the Kaiser doctor's office lobby.
15 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Sat, 05/15/2004 - 8:21am. Funny
"They've got to spell everything out. 'Millionaire' didn't get the point across, so here it's 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' Did they think ours was 'Look at the Millionaire?'"
--A woman with a british accent, commenting on the television selection in the lounge of my hotel.
12 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Wed, 05/12/2004 - 8:16am. Beautiful
"Not a lot of teenage girls will own up to being in the Mafia, that's true."
--A woman talking on a cell phone at SFO
9 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Sun, 05/09/2004 - 8:14am. Um...
"Mom, I need to go to the bathroom."
"God, sweetie, what have I told you about TMI? I didn't need to know that, and neither did anyone else here."
--A girl who looked to be about 4, and her mother, in line for checkout at Andronico's.
7 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Fri, 05/07/2004 - 7:50pm. Beautiful
"It's ugly. Really ugly."
"Is there an 'F' in how ugly it is?"
--A girl and a guy at IKEA.
4 May 2004
Submitted by eve on Tue, 05/04/2004 - 7:48pm. Funny
"The mouse button works best if you click it about a quarter inch from the right. That I have to know that is very, very annoying."
--A guy holding a laptop at Nomad Cafe
30 April 2004
Submitted by eve on Sun, 05/02/2004 - 7:35pm. Funny
"Generally 'take one for the team' implies taking one for your own team."
--One guy to another standing at the bar at The B-Cups' show.
(It's a (mostly) girl punk band. Not a lingerie fashion show.)
28 April 2004
Submitted by eve on Wed, 04/28/2004 - 9:33am. Beautiful
"How does it end?"
--A guy shouting at the screen during a preview for "The Prince and Me" at the Parkway Theatre.