Something I overheard (eavesdropping is hazardous to your mental health)
 

Okay, so the other day, I was sitting in a Pollo Tropical restaurant. The place was packed, and I was sitting at a tiny little table, ostensibly meant for two, but you could never fit two trays on top of it, and any two standard-sized adults would probably find their knees bumping each others. Anyhow, crammed beside me was a family of three, at a tiny fourtop, and they were conversing at high volume. ( By the way, this was Memorial Day, lunchtime. Of course it was crowded.)

So, I couldn't help but listen in on their conversation. Let me share with you, verbatim, an exchange that I actually heard real human beings say to one another.

Young guy - So, Mitch says that watching the hurricane was like drinking candy.

Older guy (possibly Dad) - What?

Young guy - He said it was like drinking candy.

Older guy - Oh, I bet!

Now, I was really close, and I swear to you, that is what he said. I've tried to figure out how I could be mistaken. I mean, maybe he said "drinking brandy." That would make a little more sense than "drinking candy." But when you really think about it, no, it doesn't. There is no way to make this piece of conversation make sense!

(Lewis Black warned me about this in his well-loved "If it weren't for my horse..." routine!)

Do not think about this conversation for any length of time!

Hmmm...let's see. My take on the conversation is this -- Mitch is at home pet sitting for the family. He is watching the critter that the family refers to as "the hurricane." Instead of using the expression "piece of cake" in reference to the pet sitting being easy. He uses the new updated expression, "like drinking candy." ???

Yes, I LOVE Lewis Black's bit about "If it weren't for my horse, I never would've spent that year in college." First thing I thought of when I read your thread title, thinking back to his eavesdropping confusion at IHOP.

Speaking of which, anyone know the name of the stand-up special where Lewis Black performs that routine?

Lewis Black? :-|

Wow, I really hope they were talking about something NAMED hurricane - I can't imagine watching a hurricane would be like drinking ANYTHING!

(Though hurricane parties are not an unknown way to sit out a hurricane - as long as you have all the necessary supplies (alcohol - preferrably hurricanes - but not dacquiries, since those require blenders and you never know when the electricity will go out :cheers: .)

There is a drink called a hurricane, isn't there?

I used to keep a notebook full of strange things I'd overhead. Wouldn't you know, it's the only journal I can't find right now. It's probably in one of these boxes of books I don't have the shelf space to unpack.

Lisa, start watching the first fifteen minutes or so of the Daily Show.

He's a stand up comedian, somewhat political, yells quite a bit, pretty damn funny. He appears regularly on The Daily Show and has a few HBO specials.

On the subject of "overheard conversations"..

I was in line for lunch behind a rather attractive 20ish who was chatting with her (I assume) boyfriend. I was not really paying attention until she started with:

"When I have kids I'm going to find a daycare where the kids don't have naps. The daycare workers just make the kids nap because they are lazy. It's not good for the kids to waist time sleeping all day".

I found this hysterical on just sooo many levels. First was the reaction of the boyfriend when she said "have kids": :eek:

Then the mental picture of the quality "mom&me" time this young lady is going to have after picking up a kid from a long day at a nap free daycare center.

Not to mention the looks she is going to get going around to daycare centers and asking "Is this a nap free center?" :rolleyes:

It just made my day. :)

You know, I'll bet he said (or the friend he was quoting said) that "DRINKING a hurricane is like DRINKING Candy"! That, I'll buy - for the amount of rum in them, they go down VERY easily! Though I probably would have said Kool-aid myself.


And Moonliner, that conversation PROVES that some people should NOT have children!

'Cause they could be accomplishing...something.