"Then she gets this really sad look on her face and says, 'I just don't know anymore.'"
"Sorry, that sucks. *microsecond pause* Now my dilemna is, do I want a blueberry bagel... or do I want cinnamon sugar?"
--Two guys in line behind me at Noah's Bagles

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Awww, now that's what friends are for.

"I don't know, I just get like this sometimes."
"Ok... you know, there is the market around the corner."
*pause*
"If you buy, I'll get drunk."
"Well... ok. *sighs* Do you ever feel like our sex life is headed downhill?"
--A girl and a guy at the gate of the building next door to mine

"No, you don't understand, everybody says they were a geek in high school. But I was so horribly unpopular that after a while, it became 'untrendy' to dislike me, because everyone did."
--A girl at the next table at Cafe Strada

"It's like Fargo... only even more fucked up. Man, 5 people dead, for $100,000... that's not even a house. And they were going to split it 3 ways, that's only... 33k each. They killed 5 innnocents for the price of a Honda. I hate people."
--A woman overheard downtown, on a recent violent event in the Bay Area.

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This is more serious than InPassing usually is... but I felt it was worth including, because I felt similarly about the tragedy.
The worst part is that now one of the alleged killers is trying to sell his story for $400,000.

"Lisa, will you listen to me?! Just because he said he's having a great time out with the guys on vacation doesn't mean he doesn't miss you, or that he's interested in other women."
*pause*
"Well, you didn't say it was a topless bar..."
--Woman on a cell phone in line for the restroom

"How about this one?"
--Girl about 14 years old in Ross, holding up a fuschia handkerchef shirt
"Um... I don't think you're popular enough to wear that shirt."
--Her shopping companion, a girl about the same age

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Just in case anyone had forgotten what a horrible, horrible time junior high was.
(This one was overheard during spring break, and I just remembered to add it recently.)

"Well, the funniest part is that Bobby tells his wife he's going to the gym to workout, when he's really at my place."
--20ish girl, gossiping while cutting hair

"Really, huh. My Robert's been excercising a lot lately too, guess men want to be more in shape at that age. Look at Tom Cruise here, they all want to be like him."
--40ish woman, not really paying atttention to the conversation, reading a magazine during her haircut.

"SO it sure has been hot lately."
--Hair stylist, breaking speed records for conversation changing

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I don't know if they were talking about the same man.
But the look of absolute panic and terror on the stylist's face rivaled anything I've seen in a horror movie.

"I don't know how to say this... but... Karen honey, this just isn't the right way to get promoted."
--Overheard in the fitting room at Victoria's Secret

"At first it was going to be a small ceremony, and we were just inviting family and best friends..."
"Right."
"But then she starts saying that she's concerned about our future, because I'm not romantic enough. That I never write poems for her, or sweep her off her feet. I say that I love her, and she loves me, and we're happy, right? She says fine, then she wants a fairy tale wedding to make up for the lack of romance in our marriage. We're not even married yet and she wants to rent a white horse to ride away on after our wedding, to compensate for the fact that we won't be living a romance novel!"
"Man, what are you going to do? Grow Fabio hair?"
"Well, no. Call me unromantic, but when I bought the ring, I saved the recipt..."
--Two twenty-something guys overheard in a cafe

"And then he's all, 'Marry Me'"
"Oh gawd what'd you say?"
"Sorry, desperation isn't something I'm looking for in a husband."