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- The Latest COVID?
Overheard at pharmacy: “Do you give out the latest COVID-19, uh, omicron?” Gee, I hope not… (Yeah, i know what he meant, and so did the pharmacist.)
- An Expression
Overheard during Zoom Mad Libs: Teacher: “I need an expression.” Student: (unintelligible) Teacher: “An appropriate expression.”
- Stuck in the Middle
Overheard: “Alexa, tell ____ I’m not talking to her!”
- Song of Ice and Virus
Pandemic analogy overheard while out for a walk: “It’s not a blizzard, it’s a very long winter. It’s a Game of Thrones winter.”
- Um…where?
Overheard at grocery store checkout: Mommy, I found two eyeballs!
- Rules are Rules
Overheard at the park: I’m 13, Grandma, I can’t be on this playground. Why? It says 5-12.
- Depthless Knowledge
Overheard: I don’t know, it’s what it said on Wikipedia.
- That’s It!
Overheard on the playground: — Well I’m going to go on the internet! — Well, I’M going to go on the internet and READ A BOOK!
- Fallen Giants
Overheard after an ad for Jobs. A kid asks, “What’s IBM?”
- Vampires, Werewolves, What’s the Difference?
Overheard two small children outside grocery store: “Look, it’s a full moon!” “That means the vampires are gonna come out!”
- Concurrent Drink Network
Overheard at WordCamp LA: So CDNs can make us get drunk faster?
- Now you can have that bacon latte you’ve always wanted!
Seriously? Bacon flavoring syrup?
- Overheard: The Starbucks Buzz
Customer: Do you drink coffee? Barista: I work at a Starbucks. You’ve gotta stay buzzed somehow.
- Overheard at a Comic Con
Overheard at LBCC: “Some guy asked me, what’re YOU dressed up as? And I said…a Muggle?”
- A Pointed Observation (Overheard at Starbucks)
Now that you mention it, why *do* they put dart boards in bars?
- Crowds at the Street Fair
I’ve finally found something more crowded than Comic-Con: The Orange International Street Fair on a Saturday night.
- Are You Sure it’s Fake? (Overheard at the Fair)
Overheard at the fair last night: “Are you sure that’s fake?” “Yes, I just touched it. It’s plastic.” Oh, REALLY?
- Well-Done
Overheard at a medium-fast-food restaurant: a small child repeating, “I’m well-done! I’m well-done!†a half-dozen times.
- Speaking Starbucks
Me at Starbucks: “I’d like an iced chai, medium. I mean grande.” Barista: “It’s OK, I speak both languages.”
- Overheard on the Bus (Only in San Francisco)
Other passengers react to a bizarre conversation between two strangers comparing notes on all the drugs they used to do.
- I’m Batman!
As I left for work this morning, I overheard a small child somewhere gleefully exclaiming, “I’m BATMAN!!” over and over again.
- Overheard at Closing Time
Teenage surliness knows no bounds, no matter how pleasant the voice on the PA system.
- New Year’s Eve & Avatar
10 years ago I had just started working at an Internet provider and was very glad they didn’t want me in the server room at midnight for Y2K. I just ordered tickets to Avatar in IMAX 3D. It actually *was* cheaper to see Xanadu on stage, even including parking! Made it into Avatar. Got surprisingly […]
- Skull Pumpkin & Vampire Halloween
Katie carved this incredible anatomically-correct skull Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween today. Update: Check the comments for her writeup on how she carved it. It seems to have worked as a “yes, we’re handing out candy” signal. Last year we didn’t get any trick-or-treaters. (We also didn’t put up any decorations that year, either.) This year, they […]
- Wednesday Night in San Diego
Forget Preview Night – it’s just as crowded and crazy as the rest of the con, complete with lines, swag, and sombrero-wearing donuts walking the streets.
- Comic-Con: Filling in the Gaps
Some random thoughts and anecdotes about Comic-Con that didn’t make it into other posts: It’s amazing that out of (reportedly) 140,000 people, you’re virtually guaranteed to run into people you know. For instance, I knew in person 8 people besides the two of us who were definitely going to the convention. Without planning, I ran […]
- Where do you keep the euphemism?
Someone walked into the restroom talking on a cell phone, explaining, “it’s going to sound really bad now, because I’m in the executive washroom.” Executive washroom? Sure, if by “executive washroom” you mean first-floor lobby restroom that’s available to anyone who walks into the building. I couldn’t tell whether he was joking, or trying to […]
- Only in San Diego? Volume 3, Part 2
Friday afternoon I was walking down Fifth with a couple of Subway sandwiches in my backpack. This section of the Gaslamp Quarter is almost entirely restaurants, and most of them have dining areas out on the street, with the host or hostess’ podium right there on the sidewalk. I had spotted something odd ahead of […]
- Overheard in a Kona cafe
Diner: I was here thirty years ago and had the best beer I’ve ever tasted, anywhere in the world. <pause> This is the worst. Waiter: I’m sorry, sir, I can’t do anything about that. It’s Budweiser.
- A bit morbid, but still funny
Noticed an ambulance parked out in front of Fry’s earlier today. On my way in, I passed two people who were talking about it: “That’s kind of disturbing.” “Sure, ‘Shop ’till you drop,’ but…” One of those moments where you know you shouldn’t laugh, but it somehow manages to be funny anyway.