Overheard in the high street
NS March 1st, 2009
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In a charity shop
Woman with inordinately large hoop earrings and an unusually orange tan to her 10-year-old child: “If you touch that again I swear to God I will smack you so hard you see stars, march you home and put you to bed at six.”
Child: “Go on, then.”
(She didn’t)
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In the coffee shop
Woman of about 60 reading an article from the newspaper out loud to her husband who is reading another section: “And it says here….blah blah blah blah blah blah blah….blah blah blah blah blah….Are you listening to this, dear?”
Husband, without missing a beat or lifting his eyes from his own paper: “Not at all, darling.”
- Banal Breakdown , Funny Ha-Ha , Human Oddities
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Sometimes I want to make a movie of people in our small nook of suburbia and put it in a time-capsule… otherwise later generations might not believe it was really like this. It’s very Garrison Keillor!
That first one . . . grrrr. Makes me SO mad.
I overheard a similar conversation a while ago when a mum said to her 9 year oldish daughter (who was playing up while queuing because she was obviously bored): “Who the hell do you think you are eh? I’ll tell you who, you’re nobody. You’re nothing.”
Nice eh?
I’ve had that second conversation once or twice.