Overheard at Booth 3: Annual Review

Meg: He gave me a two on "interpersonal communication" because he said that I'm "too straight-forward" in how I talk to the Project Managers and they don't want to work with me.  I told him that if my boobs were balls, he 'd give me a four for "telling it straight-up with no spin."


Tom: And what did he do then.


Meg: To be honest, it looked like he might have wanted to agree with me, tear up the paper, and start it all over again, but he looked at the HR bitch who was right there, watching him, making sure he towed the company line.  So he just said, "You're lucky that you got the 'two' that you got."


Tom: Sucks.


Meg: No shit.  Boss is a big wuss, but HR is the real evil.  They could do something about it, but never do.  All those bitches just want to push paper, feel superior, and act like they're actually worth their salary.

Overheard at Table Two: nanowrimo

"So I'm in this nanowrimo thing - write a novel in November, and I have to tell you, writing 50,000 words is easy.  That's all they want - 50,000 words, and bam!  you got yourself a novel.  Now, the hard part is writing 50,000 words that make a lick a sense!"


"What you've hit on is that writing is easy, but writing well is difficult."


"EXACTLY!  Damn near impossible, in my case!"

Overheard at Table 4: People on Phones at the Airport

"People in the airport, most of the ones on the phone are on for business.  Business, business, business, these Americans never stop working, or rather, giving the image of working.  Most of these guys aren’t really in the trenches of production, but mainly in arranging, and haranguing, and repeatedly going over and over what should be done and what would have been done and 'well we’ve got to get guys out there' and 'well what should have happened was they should have taken it apart to begin with to measure before deciding just to retrofit'"

Overheard at Table 4: Intimacy at the Edge of Infinity

"Physical intimacy is saying 'I have this body and I sacrifice it for your pleasure.'


"Non-intimacy is when I take your body for my pleasure.


"The act is the same - the way the body parts fit together that is - but the meanings are as far apart as core of the earth to the edge of infinity."

Overread at Table 4: Tuesday Morning POD

A seventh month old baby,
on Sunday morning:
head shattered like a pimple
by a bullet,


and we blather on Twitter
about rights of guns.






MR
2017-1107

Overheard at the Counter: Do you know what you like?

Barista:  Do you know what you like?


Customer: I like big butts and I cannot lie.


Barista:  Yes, but I'm talking about something you could afford.

GO 'STROS!