Overheard in real life

She said “I could get like the keys and come back.”

The title is the excerpt.

“People call him the Mayor of Brooklyn Heights” (I am confident that this is not the case. -NAF).

〜Had I not been there, I would have thought that it was too good to be real〜

〜Or so I overheard… but was it true?〜

Overheard on the street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn: “Like and like basically like…”

〜When life is a pie chart, there’s no slice of pie〜

〜Don’t argue with your kids, don’t tell them what you’re saying, just say what you’re saying〜

〜The quote in the title says nothing at all. The quote in the title says it all.〜

I overheard someone say “likethere was like no follow-through” on a Brooklyn sidewalk. That led to one of my many meditations about like as a verbal tic.

〜I got the feeling that the lady had been burned in the past〜

Back in 2005, I overheard a gentleman waiting in line at Cobble Hill Cinema tell his date that he was “a little maxed out on existentialism.” The ineffable haughtiness of his declaration stayed with me.