JZ:
One of the doctors I used to work for just stuck his head in the door and said, "So, I know this is completely insane and improbable because you never take vacation, but last Friday my family and I were stuck in the Las Vegas airport and someone who looked exactly like you walked right past us."
It's a big huge world, except for the part where it's frequently ridiculously tiny.
Kathy A:
Reminds me of two similar instances: (1) ex-girlfriend (from his h.s. years) of my brother's calls my mom four years after they graduated from h.s., "Was Kip in Walt Disney World last week?" She saw him standing in a ride line; (2) while in college, a h.s. friend of my sister's was in London with a friend who had won the trip from MTV, and they were lost just outside of the central district, when out of the blue she hears, "Liz? Liz Dillon?!" Turns out a h.s. classmate was in London on a work visa.
ita:
A woman walked up to me at work and said "You went to McGill? So did I!" We overlapped by a year--turns out this woman had lived in Ontario (check) and had Jamaican parents. And for some strange reason had moved to California, gotten a job with my company, been seated across the way from me, and had noticed my car's license plate holder. We did a lot of reminiscing that first conversation.
Trudy Booth:
A friend of mine was riding an elephant through the jungle to Angor Wat. They passed an elephant coming from Angor Wat and his ex-boyfriend from ten years ago was sitting on it.
Kathy A:
I think we have a winner! At least, until interplanetary travel is readily available.
Allyson
Natters:
Do you ever feel like we're all supporting each other, sometimes dragging each other, through miserable work days? Like a white collar platoon?
We gotta keep moving! Five O'Clock will never get here if WE DON'T KEEP MOVING
There's a Buffista down!
We gotta KEEP MOVIN'!
We can't leave sarameg behind! She just got nailed by freakishly bad code and a deadline!
Go on without me! But AVENGE ME! AVENGE ME
Allyson
in
Natter
on why we're really here:
Do you ever feel like we're all supporting each other, sometimes dragging each other, through miserable work days? Like a white collar platoon?
We gotta keep moving! Five O'Clock will never get here if WE DON'T KEEP MOVING
There's a Buffista down!
We gotta KEEP MOVIN'!
We can't leave sarameg behind! She just got nailed by freakishly bad code and a deadline!
Go on without me! But AVENGE ME! AVENGE ME
eta: Well, it was that funny
Aimée
sharing her hard-earned wisdom in
Bitches:
I think grandkids are like tatoos and chips.
You can't have just one.
Raq in Great Write, on the subject of writing dialogue:
You have to have the skill to trim the viburnum, but not make it into a meatball.
And I love that so much, I may have to tag it, if she'll let me.
MFNlaw:
I don't mean to imply that martinis make me easy. I'm like that anyway.
In Movies:
flea: I now want someone to make a film called The Preposition. And have it be a thriller, about grammar.
Gud: It'd probably be a thriller that left you hanging at the end.
Aimée:
Plei, do you know off-hand if you have to be a pro to buy MAC Chromacake?
Plei:
I do not know, for I am out of the loop. I feel like a lapsed Catholic or something, "Fashion, forgive me, for it has been 9 months since my last MAC purchase."
Debetesse, in Natter:
I've been having trouble getting my printer to feed. It kept going in on the right, but not the left. I checked the troubleshooting stuff at the epson site. I tried feeding paper through repeatedly. Eventually, I was tugging on a piece of paper to pull it through, and I see this silver corner. "Oh, shit," I think, "I've pulled something loose." But, well, now it's loose, and the paper's still stuck, so I pull it the rest of the way out. And, with the paper, the silver thing comes out. Only it's not a piece of the printer. It's a benadryl, in one of those bubble packs. Apparently, my printer was feeling congested.
