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Yikes!

While walking in front of two girls on campus:
45 seconds pass with neither saying anything.
Girl 1: I could kill someone right now.
Girl 2: [No response]
Another 20 seconds pass before I am out of earshot of them...

Mmmm Mummy Sex!

Guy: ... have sex in a catacomb?
Girl: no.
~ heard while walking on campus

Brain Surgery = Picasso???

Woman: What is she getting her BA in again? medicine?
Man: Yeah... [pause] You know, I think it's like, what's that other thing called, again? humanities?
Woman: Oh yeah! That's it!
Man: Well they're pretty much the same anyway
Man and woman on the bus in Berkeley. Why doesn't *anyone* seem to know what a humanity subject is??

Sticky Encounters

Girl rubbing shoe on grass and muttering to herself: ...this has got to be the stickiest leaf I have ever encountered...

~ on Berkeley campus

Trader Joe's is... Interesting?

Woman looking extremely confused near store entrance: This is the first time I've ever been in here. It's... interesting. [pause]. Wait, is that organic?

~ Talking to her friend in Emeryville's Trader Joe's.

Ugly Boyfriends

Girl: ...i mean it's not like a want an UGLY boyfriend, but STILL!!!!

~ walking to class with her friend at Berkeley. yeah, those hottie boyfriends just aren't in style no more.

Coffee Shop Spanish

Girl 1: Dónde estoy los baños?
Girl 2: En mi cabeza... [yells] I MEAN CASA! SHIT!!!

~ two girls at a Pruneyard coffee shop in San Jose, trying to see if they could remember any high school Spanish. Apparently not.

UCLA is going down, biatch!

a girl and a guy are sitting near each other, and haven't spoken a word since they got on the train. five minutes later the guy says to the girl: so your sister is SERIOUSLY going to sue UCLA!?!?

~ BART from SF to Berkeley

Boyfriends!

The one who makes us from the stars
It's our boyfriend! It's our boyfriend!
The people who help us with our work
It's our boyfriend! It's our boyfriend!
The one who sings and plays with me
It's our boyfriend! It's our boyfriend!

~ Six-year-old girl with her mother trying clothes on in Macy's Valley Fair, San Jose. Apparently she hasn't had her exercises in plurality yet.

Chemistry Water Fights

Girl squirting water out of a straw at her friend: I don't think water will work at all.
Guy: Yeah, butter is hydrofoamic.

~at Emeryville AMC

Technology

"...he doesn't use AIM and he doesn't have a cell phone - he must be Mr. Mountain Man!"

~ girl talking to friend at the Los Gatos Starbucks. The LGS explains everything

Driving Lesson

Passenger: You should slow down and turn right. [Pause]. I meant left.
Driver: I'm sorry, but I doubt I should take advice from a twenty-year-old sitting in a carseat.

~ jeep grand cherokee car riders in San Jose