Quotes overheard on the bus today

[jedusor]

Woman on packed bus, loudly into phone: "Yeah, so thanks for listening. I just needed to confide in someone."

Child: "It's the magic guy, Mommy! Hi! Hi, magic guy! Will you do magic?"
Off-duty street magician: *attempts to ignore the child for a while, then exasperatedly performs a coin-disappearing trick*

Child: "La la la laaaaa..."
Parent (much more loudly than the child): "DANTE! Use your INDOOR VOICE! That is an OUTDOOR VOICE! We can turn around right here, you know, we don't have to go to Wal-Mart!"

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Handy trick I learned many years ago, back when mobile phones were new and shiny: make a call of your own (or even pretend to make a call) and start discussing what the other person has been saying.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't give nearly enough of a shit to bother being snarky.

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

My favorite moment ever along these lines: on an airplane before takeoff, someone was very loudly having a long personal conversation on his phone. It just went on and on, and eventually many of us began commenting on it (he would complain about his ex-girlfriend and I would tell the passenger next to me "You know, I never liked her"). After a while, he eventually caught on and asked someone near him "Can you hear what I'm saying?"

As one, almost half the plane yells "YES!!!" and then breaks up laughing.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Ha. Beautiful.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

That's marvelous.