26 October 2000 | In Passing...

26 October 2000

Submitted by eve on Thu, 10/26/2000 - 5:57pm. Wisdom

"Oh my god, you've never been to Krispy Kreme donuts? You didn't hear about the time Zach and I went there? God, it was horrible -- the time, not the donuts. See, we got a dozen, because they're cheaper by the dozen, and I ate 3 and I had one milk chug, and Zach ate 6 and had two milk chugs, and I was going to bring the last 3 back for my roommate, but then Zach said he didn't want to bother bringing them to the movie, too.
We get another milk chug, and Zach eats three more, and drinks all the milk and then we're going out to the car and he's like 'ohhh I'm gonna be sick,' and I'm all 'Don't be sick in the parking lot!' and so we get in the car to drive home, and he's really really sick. I mean, he ate like, 9 donuts.
I pulled off the freeway and he runs over to the bushes, and he's there for a while, and then this police officer pulls up behind us, and I swear to god I was dying, because I didn't have my insurance on me. He walks up to the car, and Zach's still over by the bushes, and he says, all official like, 'Have you kids been drinking tonight?'
But then I say, 'No, he just ate 9 Krispy Kreme!' and then he laughed and let us go, and said that in the future, we shouldn't eat more than 6."
--One girl, about 25 years old, to another on Telegraph Ave

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 11/26/2001 - 6:22pm.

Archived comment by Xandra:
wow. 5 krispy kremes and 2 milk chugs is my puking limit...

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 07/13/2001 - 9:22pm.

Archived comment by jaded:
i agree with the comments about how zach most likely got sick from drinking all that milk. neat fact: the human body can't physically hold a gallon of milk (isn't it great what you learn at camp in 7th grade?). you'll bring it back up within minutes if you even get that far.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 07/12/2001 - 3:30pm.

Archived comment by Passerby:
Heh...Gwendolyn...in my book the word "peeps" (apparently the purple ones are better than crack..=) qualifies as "talking like a 15 year old"

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 11/01/2000 - 1:37pm.

Archived comment by Chris:
I guess the cop/expert would know how many to eat.
They do have the most doughnut experience.

Bad cop, no doughnut.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 11/01/2000 - 10:34am.

Archived comment by Gwendolyn:
Frankly, I'm like really annoyed by the way that girl talked. I just cannot deal with peeps who like talk like they're 15 years old. And like give me a break. The cop wasn't going to arrest her or something just because she didn't have her insurance with her.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 10/31/2000 - 10:09am.

Archived comment by Mike:
I was a freshman when I heard somewhere that milk in large quantities could prove fatal in some cases; so of course I had to see for myself. I went out, bought a gallon, and had gone about three-fourths of the way through (it in the course of about three hours) when my stomach seized up; I spent the next three days sequestered in my room, with an occasional sprint to the communal freshman bathroom (which was unspeakable by day two).I have consumed my fair share of liquids ;) but milk is by far the most dangerous one I have ever come across. . . and I didn't even get a buzz for my trouble.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 10/30/2000 - 7:25pm.

Archived comment by Larry Hosken:
Speaking of non ice-cold milk, I am just now reading an 1856 diary (_A Mechanic's Diary_, Henry Brokmeyer). I guess that was before refrigeration, an era of really-fresh milk, considering the excerpt:

[I said,] "...you drink as much of this [medicine] as you want; cold or warm, as it suits you best. But the best temperature for you is blood heat, as they call it; that is, milk warm."

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 10/29/2000 - 3:19am.

Archived comment by Vree:
Something that is said often up here in Ontario: Whenever a cop car races by "Must be a donut sale at Tim Horton's".

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 10/28/2000 - 11:08pm.

Archived comment by Matt:
9 Krispy Kremes? No big deal. Eat the full dozen and then come talk to me about stomach issues. I blame Zach's vomitousness on drinking three pints (or whatever) of milk. The human body wasn't meant to digest that much lactose. Ugh.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 10/28/2000 - 5:39pm.

Archived comment by In Passing Admin:
Thanks to all for the midterm well-wishes.
I've still got 2 more exams, 3 more projects, and a paper. I've recently decided that a teacher who gives three midterms qualifies as a sadist.

Let's see...
I don't think I've ever been caught. Closest I ever came was a time when someone noticed I was writing, though it didn't occur to him (I think) that I was transcribing, and that occasion is chronicled in the Sept 11th entry in the 'ironic' section.
I try not to troll for material -- actually, I started writing these down originally because I'd moved into a new place with odd acoustics and I couldn't help but overhear things people said at the gate of the building next door. But that's a long story.
Anyway, most things just pop out at me, I really am just recording my everyday world as I hear and see it. I've gotten better at writing down notes about them quickly (and subtlely) before I forget. Oh, I take it back, once I did catch myself choosing to go to one cafe over another because it had better bathroom grafitti. :-)
Oh, and a milk 'chug' is a marketing attempt to make milk cool and portable. They're plastic bottles shaped like old fashioned milk bottles, with screw tops and wide mouths. It's a cool idea in one sense, because you can toss it in your backpack in the morning, which you couldn't really do with a carton. But on the other hand, I can't stand milk that isn't ice cold, so I end up drinking them about 5 minutes after I buy them anyways.
Ah, the trials of dairy products.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 10/28/2000 - 4:01pm.

Archived comment by Bryan:
In Passing
Like oedalis, I hope your midterms aren't killing you. Hope you got through them ok, I think I can speak for the majority of college students when I say midterms are a bitch. Thank God I'm done with mine...also, I posted a couple questions for you for you earlier.

Oedalis,
Yeah I remember the 12 packs, shame they don't sell em anymore. I guees I'm looking to eat 14 tacos the next time I'm really hungery and walk into taco Bell.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 10/28/2000 - 1:38pm.

Archived comment by Oedalis:
In Passing,
Still doing midterms? I just got over my finals, am on a week's vacation, but no rest for the wicked as next trimester I'll be doing Senior Project (kind of like a thesis, here at DeVry--which doesn't mean much considering this place is like the McDonald's for BA's). That means no sleep for me for a couple trimesters and next to no life. Don't you love accelerated courses? (BTW, the McDonald's comment was in reference to the fact that everything is accelerated here, not really to imply that the quality of the education is necessarily lacking or that the degrees are cheap--which at about $40,000 a pop, I'd modify they're motto to "We're serious about your success---and taking all your time and money")
But I wish you well in your midterm bout--losing sleep is inevitable, but don't lose precious sanity over them.
Oh, and Bryan---my personal record is thirteen taco bell tacos. Remember those 12-paks they used to sell?

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 10/27/2000 - 7:51pm.

Archived comment by Anonymous Coward #69,105:
It might collide with your Berkeley sensibilities, but have you ever considered a job as an intelligence analyst or field agent? That is some pretty seriously awesome spookery you're doing. I would sure as heck keep my trap shut if I went to your school. :)

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 10/27/2000 - 8:31am.

Archived comment by In Passing Admin:
Hi Angus --
Actually, there already is an area where people can share things they've heard or seen in passing. It's the 'Passing by' section (click the link on the lower left.)
I do plan to have eventually a 'best of reader submissions,' section, which will include entries from Passed By in addition to ones people sent me. However, that's going to have to wait until after my midterms.
Sorry folks, I'm only human. :-)
In the meantime, Passing By is there for reader submissions. And as ever, I'm glad to hear that folks like the site enough to want more features. Thanks for visting and contributing. You all are awesome.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 10/27/2000 - 7:30am.

Archived comment by AngusP:
On my previous entry, I meant 'GREAT' job, not GRAET....I hate when that happens....

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 10/27/2000 - 7:27am.

Archived comment by AngusP:
I agree with everybody else's comments on what a good job you do remembering and transcribing all these things you hear. Have you ever thought about adding a 'Public Heard In Passing' page to this website? You know, a page where we, the public, could post tasty tidbits that we overhear, in whatever part of the world we happen to be in....This probably isn't the first time it's been suggested, but I think it would be SO COOL to expand this OUTSTANDING site in that manner!! You could have people identify where they were, etc...

I sure would like to hear your thoughts on this idea, should you be able to find the time to respond. However, I certainly do not want to distract you from the graet job you already do everyday here. I'm sure I'm not the only person that stops by here everyday to see the latest and greatest....

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 10/26/2000 - 11:17pm.

Archived comment by Bryan:
sorry for the double post

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 10/26/2000 - 11:15pm.

Archived comment by Bryan:
Inpassing,
I'm just amazed by all that you capture...do bits and pieces of conversations just pop out at random at you or do you troll places listening in? Also, have you ever been caught red handed(eavesdropping) and if so, how do you deal with it?

I gotta admit I'm impressed with the guy's ability to eat 9 KK donuts and 3 milk "chugs"(whatever size they are)...I just wonder how many Taco Bell Tacos he could eat, my personal record is 7.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 10/26/2000 - 10:26pm.

Archived comment by Bryan:
Inpassing,
I'm just amazed by all that you capture...do bits and pieces of conversations just pop out at random at you or do you troll places listening in? Also, have you ever been caught red handed(eavesdropping) and if so, how do you deal with it?

I gotta admit I'm impressed with the guy's ability to eat 9 KK donuts and 3 milk "chugs"(whatever size they are)...I just wonder how many Taco Bell Tacos he could eat, my personal record is 7.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 10/26/2000 - 8:05pm.

Archived comment by In Passing Admin:
Heh. I got a good earful, and eventually I just stood there, writing as fast as I could.
My notes read:
"neu been Krispg, Z hor, cheap doz, 3c, 6 2c, 3 rm? not brng mve. more milk. gonna be sick, nt in pkng lt. drive, pull over, Z in bushs. cop, dyng no nsurns. drunk? no, not 6."
I need to be able to read my own shorthand/grafitti (that's the palm writing language) typos better. I spent a long while trying to remember what 'nsurns' was.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 10/26/2000 - 7:17pm.

Archived comment by Yuri:
Amazed as I am that he could manage (even if it was for only a moment) to eat 9 Krispy Kreme donuts in one sitting, I am far more impressed by your ability to remember this whole account long enough to transcribe it on your trusty Palm Pilot.

Now that's something. :)

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