Female: So are you married....divorced?

male: No. I mean, yes I'm married...but seperated.

Female: Not that it mattered, i was just curious.

At a hotel bar, two apparent coworkers beginning the mating dance of an obviously very meaningful intra-office romance

Me: "I want to make a spoon rest."

Coby: ~dramatic hand motion~ "Sleep!!"

"Alienation ain't just a colony of Martians."
- roommate, titling a paper

"...Barbados..."

"...it's gone. So, OK, she has lost her wedding ring..."

"...husband's really..."

"...Yeah, in the ocean, so..."

"...That's the thing. This SCUBA diver saw the notice and..."

--snippets of what a clerk said to another clerk behind the counter of Canvas Cafe, San Francisco
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I'm kind of sorry that I didn't hear the whole story. Because it sounds like it was a good story.

"You get off the stage!"
"No, you get off the stage."
"You get off!"
"Who's the boss of you?"
" . . . you."
"And who's the boss of me?"
"Daddy!"
"No!"
~A little boy of about 4 and his frustrated mother, who hauled him out of the B&N children's department right afterwards.

I found this particularly funny considering I just posted a similar quote from a different child yesterday.

"The king is better than the queen! The king is better than the queen! The king is better than the queen, 'cause the man is in charge of the woman!"
"Oh honey, we're gonna have a little talk when we get home."
~A boy of about 5 marching around the children's department at Barnes & Noble pounding a book like a drum awhile back, and his slightly scandalized mother after having someone repeat what he has just said to her because she hadn't been paying attention

"Let me put it to you this way, bottom line: if any half of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie makes you cry, you are living a terrible life."
--A guy talking to a couple of guys at Safeway.

"I was afraid to put my arm around him . . . I mean, are we allowed to touch the monks?"
~A co-worker at the newspaper, in reference to a picture of her with a Buddhist monk

"So this girl today... she was totally my type."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah. She was kinda... early thirties. Not older than 33, and...
" What's that mean? Your type?"
"Well, like, she was kinda earthy and really... she was just original. She had this cardboard horse head on her bike -- so it looked like a horse. And she got on the bus at my stop and we talked and it was just... nice."
--A guy and a girl talking at Amoeba

"We could take a bunch of fairy tales, like Cinderella..."
"And Dumbo!"
"Dumbo was a true story!"
~Three people at drama last night... *blink*