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Apr. 14th, 2009

rose

Overheard

He had been going to see his girlfriend, but she had been grounded.

"Why was she grounded?"

He shrugs.  "They get grounded for the strangest things. 'You just walked funny and, then, you said something!  You're grounded for two weeks!'"

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Nov. 13th, 2008

spillt ink

Romeo


"Oh, I know!   The reason you like that Taylor Swift video, the love story one, is because the guy in it looks like your boyfriend."

The girl gets a sneaky smile on her face.

"It's true, you do think the guy looks like your boy!"

The girl smiles widely, then says, "He does, doesn't he?"
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Aug. 23rd, 2008

garden

Conversation

She was speaking about Christians, talking about how she researched the subject, how other people tended to preach to her and she wanted to have the background to support her words.  One such person made a comment to her, and she replied, "What do you want to do?  Take me to the water trough and baptize me like they used to do?"  Then, she said to me, "Did you know that is what they used to do?  The trough where the animals drank, that's where they baptized us.  And, they did so much worse.  When I found out how they treated slaves, I cried.  When I was taught history in school they never mentioned any of that.  I never knew.  And, I sat there reading about it on the internet  tears rolling down my face.  I couldn't help myself.  How could people treat other people like that?"
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Jul. 13th, 2008

wind

Overheard

Noon.  Hot and windy outdoors.  Work break time and the smoking enclosure with its glass walls was too warm for comfort.  But windy.  The tall, thin woman from the Fabrication department had to go within the enclosure to light her cigarette.  When the mechanic from another department came outside, she remarked how windy it was, how he might have to go inside to light his cigarette.  "Nah," he said, "I've got a man's lighter."  And, he pulled out his Zippo lighter.  One that had seen years of use, worn to a dull silver finish, fat and heavy in his large, work-worn hand.  "No wind is going to blow it out."
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Jun. 28th, 2008

june

Overheard

Overheard conversation between a couple maybe in their twenties.

"It makes me everything," she said.

"What is everything," he asked

"Everything."

"Descripe everything to me."

"Talkative, loud, argumentative, funny."

"So, it makes you more you, the real you, the one hidden inside?"
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Jun. 10th, 2008

white rose

Date

He brought her a flower on their first date.  A long-stemmed white rose.  When her mother raised her eyebrows, she replied, "I told you he works with green and growing things."

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Apr. 19th, 2008

spillt ink

Overheard

"Do you ever regret wasting your life with me," he asked.

"Shut up," she replied. 
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Feb. 3rd, 2008

red boots

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A good number of her co-workers do not seem to like her.  Not that they say that to her face, but they make comments while she is away.  Comments, like, "It's very quiet in here now,"  and "Who is missing, it seems too in quiet here,"  and most people know who they are talking about.  She is a single mother, middle-aged, petite, a black woman who is vocal and opinionated.  She calls a spade a spade.  She said to me once, "You can't let people walk all over you, because they will, you know.  You have to stand up for yourself."   On one particular day, the subject of "whoopings" came up.  Spankings.  She spoke about her father and how he would spank his kids for no reason at all, or for any little reason.  "There came a time," she said, "when I was just a kid that I decided that I wasn't going to cry anymore.  You can't do anything to a kid who decides they won't be hurt.  'Hello, Dunn Mental Health."   In third grade, I would fight anyone.  Boys, girls, it didn't matter.  I once hit a teacher.  Yeah," and she nods her head at the implications of that, "Bam, in the face with a metal lunchbox.  But she put her hands on me first.  For the third time, she had put her hands on me.  It all comes down to you just can't have a parent who beats on their kids for no good reason without consequences.  Those kids will learn to just not care."
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Jan. 24th, 2008

childhood

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He has custody of his three year old daughter.  He hadn't known her daughter's mother very well before he married her, and later, afterwards, felt forced to divorce her.  She was young and uneducated, and not interested in learning to better herself.  She relied upon her mother's advice and her mother wasn't educated either.   After a lengthy battle, he gained custody of his daughter, who is going through the process of having parents in different households and her mother now busy with a newborn.  "She wants me to hold her and carry her around all the time," he tells me, "she's three years old, but I imagine there will be a time when I won't be able to pick her up and carry her, so I do."  

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Nov. 25th, 2007

holding on

I wish I had kept silent.

She said, "I thought it was going to be happily ever after too. It would have been, but he was crazy. Crazy." She had said it twice as though once wasn't enough. She had said it an angry tone, but her demeanor afterwards held nothing but sadness.
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Nov. 24th, 2007

wintersweet.cups

Not Quite Quotable

My favorite quote from Thanksgiving Day was a freely-given offer,

"You can use my truck, but the cab smells like coyote and Tommy Hilfiger."
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