"He asked, but I didn't feel comfortable taking off my socks. *pause* ....Not in front of the nurse." --A woman talking on a cell phone in the Kaiser doctor's office lobby.

"They've got to spell everything out. 'Millionaire' didn't get the point across, so here it's 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' Did they think ours was 'Look at the Millionaire?'"
--A woman with a british accent, commenting on the television selection in the lounge of my hotel.

"Not a lot of teenage girls will own up to being in the Mafia, that's true."
--A woman talking on a cell phone at SFO

"Mom, I need to go to the bathroom."
"God, sweetie, what have I told you about TMI? I didn't need to know that, and neither did anyone else here."
--A girl who looked to be about 4, and her mother, in line for checkout at Andronico's.

"It's ugly. Really ugly."
"Is there an 'F' in how ugly it is?"
--A girl and a guy at IKEA.

"The mouse button works best if you click it about a quarter inch from the right. That I have to know that is very, very annoying."
--A guy holding a laptop at Nomad Cafe

"Generally 'take one for the team' implies taking one for your own team."
--One guy to another standing at the bar at The B-Cups' show.
(It's a (mostly) girl punk band. Not a lingerie fashion show.)

"How does it end?"
--A guy shouting at the screen during a preview for "The Prince and Me" at the Parkway Theatre.

"We'll get going as soon as the rain lets up. *pause* Well, it sure is raining here. *pause* I'm in... *looking around* ...Memphis. I'm in Memphis?"
--A man in a pilot's uniform, talking on a cell phone, at MEM

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