Overheard; peripheral interest only, prolly

[Wilson Gray]

A couple of twenty-ish, white, convenient-store (the original Boston
form; the distinction is pretty much inaudible, of course, but it was
spelled out - or should that be "spelled-out"? ;-) - that way) clerks
chatting:

A. Blah-blah-blah.

B. No shit. What did he look like?

A. Like that guy there [pointing to passer-by].

B. Really?! Like that?!

A. Yeah. A kind of _skier-, snowboarder-ish_ dude.


-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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