More Creeping

                I think I love my internship. No where else could I hear all kinds of completely random things. Here are a few more dialogues I eavesdropped/creeped on:

"Are we green?"

"We’re green."

"Good, because I don't want any red. You better not come because i don't want any red. We’re green."

"Yes, we're green"

"So how good are we on a scale of 1 to 43?"

1: "I'm going to tell her that we need to take them all back because they're 'destroyed'."

2: "Yeah, do it."

*Person 3 walks in*

1: "Hey, we need to return all those shirts."

3: "What? Why? What's wrong with them?"

1: "I think some moths got into it."

3: "Moths? How? Where are they?"

1: "I think they flew out when he opened the box."

3: "What?" *Goes and looks* "You mean these frayed edges? I paid a whole $10 more for this!"

1&2: *Cracks up*

3: "They look good!"

1: "I hate this! Why is it already torn?"

2: "it's hip! It’s the style now."

1: "I don't need something that's already torn! And why is it so tight? It's work for crying out loud!"

That day, we got the new promotional Lync shirts, and they had those frayed edges – half the people on the floor love it, half the people on the floor hate it. Personally, I really liked it, but it really fueled a bunch of conversations. And it’s extremely amusing listening to people who are in their forties or fifties argue about what’s “hip”. I definitely died of laughter that day… but only on the inside.

Dialogue is definitely missing without actions written next to them. Some of them seem kind of too serious, or they simply don’t make sense if I don’t add in the actions in asterisks. Just like in stories such as Burning House, most of the story describes the actions instead of the speech. The speech is clipped and cryptic, and one can only infer the true meaning of what is being said or understand the subtext by reading into the descriptions of the character’s actions.

Eavesdropping

Various conversations that I heard sometime between Wednesday and today

1: “How was your vacation? How was your marathon?”
2: “It was great! At least I finished.”
1: “That’s still pretty good! Have you run them before?”
2: “No, Chicago was my first one. It was mostly flat, which was nice. Still, it was like 80 degrees out.”
1: “Wow, seriously? That’s terrible. I can’t really run if it’s more than 65 out.”
2: “Yeah, I had to walk a bit when I got to mile 22, but I finished the last two miles running.”
1: “Well, still, congratulations on finishing!”

1: “I think I’m seeing double.”
2: “Honey, you say that every time you wear those tight jeans.”

1: “Dog.”
2: “Cat.”
1: “Amanda. I hate you.”
2: “Is that an animal?”
1: “Yeah, sure.”

1: “Hey have you sent out those documents yet? I need them!”
2: “Yeah, I already did, check your email.”
1: “No, I don’t have them yet, and I can’t finish my part without it.”
2: “I sent them already!”
1: “No you didn’t!”
2: “Look, in my sent mail, it says I sent it already!”
1: “But I haven’t gotten it yet!”
*Momentary pause*
1: “Oh nevermind.”

1: “Oh my god it hurt so bad, they freaking stuck a needle through my foot.”
2: “Through your foot?”
1: “Yeah, it was the numbing needle before they actually injected the antibiotics.”
2: “I absolutely hate needles, they make me want to throw up”
1: “I know. I couldn’t even look when the doctor was doing it. And now I’m limping around. God, it hurts so bad.”

1: “I’m so hungry.”
2: “I know right? I didn’t have lunch.”
1: “I didn’t either. Wanna go on a free food run in about 15 minutes?”
2: “Sure, I think there’s pizza on the 26^th floor.”
1: “Really? Then I think I’ll just take my break right now.”

Extra super interesting dialogue (although I didn't hear this one, I had the person himself type it up for me):
1: "You know how Travis McCoy said the world better prepare for when I'm a billionaire? Well, the world better prepare for when I'm a trillionaire."
2: "What are you going to do with a trillion dollars?"
1: "I don't know. I could fill a stadium with hookers."
2: "A lifetime supply a hookers?"
1: "Yes, if you invest in my company right now, I'll give you 10% of all the hookers plus all the Asian ones"
2: "You'll run out of hookers before you run out of money."
1: "Even better."