"And there were actually parents livid with me for teaching their children that there was more than one way to think about women."
"To think about women like Marie Curie, or...?"
"Marie Curie or Pam Anderson. All the same. Doesn't matter."
--Two women talking in line at Caribou Coffee

"I remember the first time I met you. You missed all the meetings. Larry was lost without you."
"Oh yes." *coolly*"I didn't realize the time difference."
"Didn't the pilot mention it? 'Thank you for choosing BA, the local time in New York is 8am and the local weather is better than what you're used to?'"
"I took the company plane."
--Two men talking in the lobby of the W Hotel.

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Out in businesstriplandia, but no, of course I'm not staying at the W. I'm certainly using their lovely lobby wireless net, though. Thanks, Starwood.

"I'm saying 'bloated' isn't a problem for a person, but it's a problem for a budget."
--A man talking on a cell phone outside Starbucks

"Do you miss it?"
"Oh, no, we came to Dallas from Ahmedabad twenty three years ago. We are cowboys now!"
--A teenage girl, and a tiny elderly woman, talking at DFW.

"Isn't it funny that by looking hot, you're actually being colder than everyone else?"
--A girl, to her minimally clad female friend at Cafe Nomad.

"What's something horrible that's happened to you lately? Please, let me mine your life for my personal gain."
--One guy to another at Berkeley Bowl

"He disappeared from Google after college. A very annoying quality in a man."
--A girl with a laptop at A Cuppa Tea

"I totally have the first ipod."
"What are you even talking about?"
"Metonymy."
"What? How?"
"Where by 'first', I mean, 'first generation.' Metonymy."
"That's not Metonymy."
"I said one thing meaning another."
"I also do that when I lie."
--A guy and a girl

"Why are you chuckling at Bakersfield? I always thought it was such a nice name for a place. Baker's Field. Like Candyville."
--Kevin Smith, at Zellerbach Hall.

"I never get why they make you take Algebra 1, then Geometry, then Algebra 2. It's like they're trying to make you forget. Like when you're trying to remember a phone number and some ho starts saying '9... 72... 13... 4...' Just like that. I hate Geometry."
"I hate Tammi."
--Two teenage girls at the bus stop on Ashby

"You really don't want me pissing people off right now. I get that." "I don't want you pissing people off ever, and that's what I think you're not getting." --Two guys talking near gate 20 at SFO

"You know how they talk about jobs keeping people off the street? Why do they always say that about guys working at the YMCA, or at the bus station? My job's keeping me off the street too, and literally."
--A man in a suit and tie talking on a cell phone in the lobby of my hotel.

"We need a dolphin with opposable thumbs."
"The combination of a dolphin and a monkey should do it, then."
"Hell of a love child."
"You have not been trained to think that way, so you don't. But I see it."
--Two guys who appear to be doing more drinking than eating at the hotel restaurant.

"And that's what I'm saying. What do you worry more about, social security or printer problems?"
--One guy talking to another, waiting for the elevator.

"I've always got to do what the register says. What if the register says something that's wrong? All customers are the same."
"No, all addition and subtraction is the same."
"Your lattes are all the same."
--Two apparently disgruntled Starbucks employees.

"His phrasing is weird, it's offbeat. He's not pausing at the commas. Hear that? Wait a minute... Dude, he's pausing at the big words."
--A girl watching Bush's press conference on the TV in the lobby of my hotel.

"I'm not the one taking pictures of mannequins all day."
"Mamma, they won't even look at your auction unless you've got a picture, and if I'm the one wearing them in the demo, how can I say they're unworn?"
"But somehow the mannequin wearing it doesn't count as wearing it? I just don't like the thing, it was too expensive."
"The only thing cheaper was inflatable."
--A girl and her mother wandering around a clothing shop.

"So my saying, 'Why don't you try a new life, buy new shoes...'?"
"Not working."
--Two men at Whole Foods