Overheard at Table3: Soccer Moms

Lyndsey was saying, "and I got on the scale and I had gained four pounds in one day, and I said 'what the HELL?!' - I had NEVER heard of gaining four pounds in ONE day."

Gloria was replying, "God don't I know how that feels, I was on these vitamins that were supposed to help keep the pounds off and my moodswings just went crazy, I went into this, like, monster phase that I couldn't control!"

Overheard at Booth 2: Facebook Divorce

Taryn said to her husband, "My little brother replied like that to you because he was making fun of you."

Michael Medrasco said, "Yeah, I knew some people might think it was silly."

Taryn said, "How could you put something like that? I mean, 'Love makes people sweep the streets?'"

"It was just what I was thinking at the time, I was telling people that apathy makes you just lie there on the couch eating chips and fumbling your remote or your game control, and Love makes you wanna get out there and change the world."

"Then why didn't you just say 'change the world' - you said love makes you wanna sweep the streets! What kind of stupid idea is that?"

"It was a visual - something to illustrate the point!"

Taryn said, "Well, if you're going to keep putting crap like that on Facebook, I think you're going to have to unfriend me."

Michael held up his BlackBerry. "Don't worry. Just did."

Overheard at Booth 5: I Asked America

from 365.


I asked America, hey
why did you
let your bankers
play with our cash like it was monopolymoney
and stuff us so deep into a recession that
the rest of the world imploded with us?

And America told me, shut up
go back to watching Breaking Bad.

I asked America, hey
why do you get so mad about
health care for the poor and the children
and immigrants that you have fights in
town halls where people are biting off fingers?

And America told me, shut up
and go back to watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

I asked America, hey
why do you let big business buy
and sell and trade your senators on the
open market, like they were tarts who
will open their legs for some caviar and wine?

And America told me, shut up
and go back to watching American Dad.

I asked America, hey,
why are you sending your military
over to deserts for more than ten years,
doing nothing but exploding the last of our
standing, and draining every single dollar
this country has, putting us in a hole we'll
never get out of?

America told me, shut up,
and go back to watching Weeds.

I asked America, hey
why are you making your citizens
disappear
after tapping their phones
in direct violation of the Constitution of the
United States of America,

America told me, shut up,
and start watching your back.

Overheard at Table 2: Starting School Without

Amy: So how'd your daughter like the first day of school?

Lori: It got a lot better the second day. She was really nervous. High school, you know - ninth grade.

Amy: Can't even imagine, I've still got three more years before the boys start Jr High, I can't even imagine how nervous she is starting high school.

Lori: Yeah, she's a little upset with us. She says that everyone there has an iPhone and we just let her have that one that Verizon gave us.

Amy: Kids these days! Gotta have their stuff!

Lori: Yeah. I told Jon to stop by Best Buy on the way home from work tonight and pick one up for her.

Overheard at Table 4: The Thirst of the Rich

Angela: We've still got our backyard pools full, the whole neighborhood, we still water our lawns every morning, even though the state is facing the worst drought ever, my husband drives the Hummer to work ever morning instead of taking my Civic, because I could take the Metro if I had to, but still we all complain about our president as though he was some dicator in some third world country and we were all in food lines begging for bread.

Abigail: You're waking up to the irony that gorging ourselves on everything is never going to make us feel full.

Overheard at the Counter: Kate Winslet - Heroine!

Verble comes in, all beams and smiles, and slaps the iPad down on the counter to the page that shows the latest news, and shouts, "READ!"

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Real-life-heroine-Kate-saves-Branson-mom-from-fire/articleshow/9715719.cms

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/08/23/2011-08-23_kate_winslet_saved_richard_bransons_90yearold_grandmother_from_necker_island_fir.html

http://billionaires.forbes.com/article/04970uS0ZEf9K

Verble continues, "Man, I thought she was hot, but it turns out, that lady is ON FIRE!"

Overheard at Booth 5: HP CEO

. . . and it only makes a blip on the radar screen but I still remember that last year, right about this time, maybe it was October/November, but NPR - at least I think it was NPR - reported that the CEO of Hewlett-Packard had just made the company $23 million dollars that year by laying off 4000 workers. Isn't it amazing when the only way companies can return to profitability is by killing the working class? Anyway, apparently he fudged something on his expense report, so they canned him. That's always internal politics. Whenever one jackal wants to kill off the top jackal, the wanna-be top jackal always finds the expense report that the other guy fudged, and then the board has to fire him. Makes the stockholders nervous. Not that they give a care, but the publicity makes the prices unstable, which dumps their ROI. So this now ex-CEO walks away with $40 million. $40 million! - It was in his pre-nup, which by pre-nup, I mean 'contract.' And this contract said that if he was ever removed unwillingly, he gets $40 million. Imagine! I'm thinking, 'Well heck! All that he just saved by cutting the necks of the workers just got erased doublefold by their payoff. What are they gonna do now? Lay of 8000 workers just to make it back up?"