Conversations Overheard

[tealin]

Overheard on the bus today. At least one of them was drunk. Both were middle-aged and walked with canes even though it didn't look like they needed them.

WOMAN: What do they use the sulphur for, anyway?
MAN: Uh ... trains.
WOMAN: What, like ... like a ... like fuel?
MAN: I dunno. Just s---.
WOMAN: [after a pause] Are you playin' crap?
MAN: Yup.
WOMAN: You're losin', ain't ya?
MAN: ... Nope.

Comments

[niteflite.livejournal.com]

Oh... wow. That is absolute and utter gibberish gold.

[rebelsketcher.livejournal.com]

wow...

sounds like my customers....

[wondrousstrange.livejournal.com]

and they return home still drunk to continue the conversation as follows:

Woman: point is, point is, point I'm trying to make is...
Man:...
Woman: Dolphins! That's the point I'm trying to make.
Man: Kind of fish?
Woman: Nonono, 's a mammal. Actual mammal. Difference is they...
Man: mate out of water?
Woman: ...Don't think that's it. Anyway, point I'm trying to make is their brains. Sizeof sizeof big damn brains.

Et cetera.
(unskillfully paraphrased from best drunk dialogue ever written)

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

"And then there's the whales. Brain city, take it from me. Whole damn sea full of brains."

You are officially awesome, wonderousstrange. :D

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Hello there.

I have just read "Wintersmith"- maybe it was all secret code and they really were planning to make a man. I remember sulphur being one of the ingredients.