"Yeah, I'll be fine on this exam so long as they don't ask me any questions I didn't study for."
"Like, say, which discussion section you're in?"
"Hell, at this point if they ask me my name I'll proably go home crying."
--A guy and a girl in line for the Atm

"I've had better. A quarter of my company was laid off today."
"You're kidding, I thought Ask Jeeves was a great company!"
"Well we're a good search engine. We're not so good to work for these days. Oh well, as ever, the engineers are safe."
--Two guys in Barnes and Noble

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This being the Bay Area, and popular sports being what they are, I'd already heard. Rumor has it Ask.com wanted to start... turning a profit or something.

"Would you pass the soy sauce?"
"Oh, me too."
"Well, I'm having this soy sauce lite."
"Oh, me too."
"Me too. I didn't even know soy sauce was fattening."
"Well if it wasn't, would they make a lite version?"
--Three girls at another table in the same restaurant

"After lunch this random guy walks up to me on Sproul and says, 'Aw, can't you give me a smile, honey?' I mean, what do you say to that?"
--A girl in line for the ATM

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Well the proper answer is something along the lines of scowling and snipping, "Not for you, jackass."
Oops, that wasn't very nice. I did recognize that it wasn't. But I left it there anyway.
Sorry, I've had a lousy day.
I am Jack's embittered sense of rejection.
I am Jack's feelings of the futility of ever hoping to have a job that a trained monkey couldn't do equally well.
I am Jack's melodramatic urges to vent anonymously.
I should head on over to a more appropriate place to kvetch

~~~Update, 6 hours later~~~
*sigh* I'm over it.
I tend to take things hard and recover quickly. Which is good, I guess. So long as I don't do anything stupid in the first hour of fury/upset/whatever, I escape lousy situations with relatively few bridges burned.
Thanks everyone, for the kind words.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled omniscient narrator.

"Look at that -- 'Broad Breasted Turkey.' Even in a stupid grocery store, looking at dead meat, cup size is still all that matters."
--An unhappy teenage girl, ranting in the supermarket

"Hey, d'you want a pair of shoes? I'll buy you one for Christmas?"
"Really?" *sounds genuinely in awe*
"Suuuure. Hey, look at these: 'Easy Spirit.' I'll buy you these. They'll save your sole! Well, not literally, of course, but hey..."
"I hate you."
--A teenage guy and girl in Marshalls

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No, I haven't forgotten about the site, I promise. I'm just very sleepy. Long day. Bigger update tomorrow, I promise.

"And I said, 'I thought that time of my life was over,' but he shook his head and said, 'You think that, but it doesn't go away. It never goes away. It just keeps coming back...'"
--A girl heard in passing near West Gate

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Anyone care to wager what they were talking about?
From her tone I'd guess it was depression, but then again, she could be talking about homework.

"You should ask for him, he's the best doctor. Plus he's a smoker, so he knows he's got no right to tell me to quit."
--One woman to another, in the Cal Convenience Store.

"Ohhhh, I see how it is. She's too cool to sit with us, we're just her house friends. Her real friends are back in Stockton."
--A girl on the bus, gesturing at another member of her party sitting across the aisle

"It's just that not only are you constantly nagging me, but you also try and turn every conversation into a lesson that I should learn, which leaves me annoyed and thinking how much you remind me of my father. *deep breath* Which, I think is a bad thing, since we're dating."
--A girl, to the guy she was walking with, in passing on Shattuck Ave