"It's never too late to say you're sorry."
"Sometimes people die."
"That would be a good band name."
--Written on the wall of the women's bathroom at Triple Rock

"If I were an adolescent girl, I could see wanting to be the Olsen twins." "Which point do we address first here?" --Two 20something guys at Triple Rock

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Sorry for the lack of updates recently -- The site's not dead, I've just been busy, and again I've been plagued by the working so much I don't overhear anyone but my coworkers. I've got a good backlog of quotes though, so expect more in the next week.

"Adorable. Litigatable. Adoralitagatable."
--A woman talking on the phone at Whole Foods

"It must be so sad to be a lady with a flower stand. People buying flowers for their girlfriends all day, for their mothers, for their birthdays."
"That sounds really happy, actually."
"Yeah, but no one's ever going to buy flowers for her. They'll think, 'flower lady. Doesn't need more flowers.'"
"I'll bet she's sick of flowers. With a job like that you probably want... waffles."
--A girl and a guy walking down Durant st

"How do they even live with themselves? Sitting there all day, next to the corn cherry scones, knowing they're clearly inferior. Pity the plight of a mere strawberrry scone."
--A guy at Arizmendi bakery

"Less the fact that he's still with Liz, more the fact that he says Liz wouldn't freak out over something 'little' like this."
--A woman talking on a cell phone at Andronico's.

"He was like, 'Ugh, you smell like vodka,' and she just shrugs and says, 'What flavor?'"
"Stoli strawberry always smells like air freshener to me, too."
--Two guys at Bliss Bar

"It's just that I've yet to really find someone who was willing to commit."
"Too much 'just hooking up, not enough quote unquote together?'"
"No, not commit to me, comitt to the drama. Really dive in, you know?"
--A girl and a guy at Jupiter

"No, the other day, I was in the elevator, and I look down, and there's a syringe. With a cap on it. Like, somebody just dropped a syringe! 'Too many syringes, just dropped one.'"
"Ew, God, how sketch. That's not even ghetto. That's pure sketch. Where the hell were you?"
"...In my apartment building."
"I'm sure it was a diabetic."
--Two men at Bar Rouge

"Weren't you supposed to just sit on the curb and wait for me?"
"Yeah, only apparently New Orelans had some kind of curb law."
--A girl and a guy at Angel Street Thrift Shop

"Tartare was kind of the sushi of France. Until the madness."
--A guy to a girl at Whole Foods

"She was like, 'Oh, I thought Buddy was lost!' and reaches under the bed."
"Teddy bear?"
"Pet snake."
--Two guys talking at Raleigh's.

"No self respecting super hero would wear open toed shoes."
--A guy on AC Transit

"I was in a band where we had a rule, all guitar or drum solos had to be at least one cigarette long... And I didn't even smoke."
--A guy standing outside Taqueria Cancun

"Well, wear clothes you can move in, and if you're going to wear pants, get a rubber band for the right cuff."
"Yeah, I was planning on wearing shorts, which solves that. But not boxer shorts. That's the wrong kind of able to move."
"You're never having children, you know that, right? Briefs supposedly impair that."
"Yeah, yeah, that's not a bad thing." *turning to walk off*
"That doesn't count as birth control!"
--A girl and a guy outside the Cheeseboard.

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Yeah, I should post more. See previously cited problems of working too much and interacting with the non-work (and therefore quotable) world too little. Working on it, though, don't give up on In Passing just yet...

"And I'm like, 'Do you realize that I practically eat tomatoes for a living?'"
--A man in the dairy section at Andronico's, talking on a cell phone.

"Apparently he had to talk her out of naming the baby Nintafiv."
"Is that... Norwegian?"
"No, Nintafiv -- like, "nine to five", I think. But then it was a boy, and he convinced her that would be too cruel."
"Isn't she actually Norwegian, though?"
--Two women talking outside Thai House

"I say the directions were underspecified."
"Yes, but since I was the one who said, 'get a room', I thought you'd realize that I didn't mean mine."
--Two girls talking at Andronico's

"I hate to say it, but have you considered transferring your affections to a team with less of a suck factor? "
"No, see, that's the problem. Once the local guys lose, then I automatically root for whoever's the underdog."
"Oh, so you're screwed by design, then. You should reconsider that. Might be a less frustrating experience."
--A girl and a guy at Andronico's

"Oh, sure. Go on, invoke that wrath. Brilliant."
--A guy to a girl at Mars