"I been wanting to go and I kinda got gypped on it. Calm down, dude..get yourself into good enough shape to go party dude...no problem dude...it's like what the fuck dude. Uh huh, that's cool. Yeah, whatever dude. Let's chill, dude. Yeah dude, you better get more money than that. Yeah dude." --Young man outside Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Montrose, CA, 10/18/10, 3:10 p.m.
huh huh huh huh huh
weird
"So I hit him and then I went on top of him and I hit him again, and I hit him again, and I hit him again, and he fell to the ground...being an asshole...and it was like weird..." --Young man walking on 2400 block of Honolulu Avenue, Montrose, CA, 10.11.10, 1:58 a.m.
possible soulmate
"I'm artistic, versatile, I'm a bazillion things in one! We should get along fine! Yeah, according to the book you're reading. I'm a Pisces. You live in Brentwood?" --man with tattoos, dressed in all black, outside Coffee Bean, Lankershim & Vineland, North Hollywood, CA, 8.11.10, 6:35 p.m.
mental acuity
"Wait a minute...wait a minute...wait a minute...this is coming from Mister Handyman? So what's the story?? I didn't realize it was a permanent thing....and even that gives no peace of mind.....they lose a lot of mental acuity"
--Galoot in Grayson's Tune Town, 4:20 p.m., 7.28.10, Montrose CA
--Galoot in Grayson's Tune Town, 4:20 p.m., 7.28.10, Montrose CA
the rack
"buyer can't qualify...yeah. You said he'd taken 'em...He did a little 3x5 card..They'd have 'em stuck in the back drawer or whatever...right...20% of the populaion...it was like farm that always reseeded itself. There is these little green cards...exactly, yeah. Yeah I'm at Beantown, I just wanted to bug you about the rack... --man at Beantown, Sierra Madre, CA, 7.27.10, 9:27 p.m., ignoring his wife & kids while he went on & on.
ruuuude
"What a hater. HATER!! I tell you!! She's SO rude to me!!" --young woman in 7-11, Lakeview Terrace, CA, 7.22.10, 1:15 p.m.
desire
"You're a liar...you want me? Do you want me?"
--Young man in Raiders sweateshirt, Lakeview Terrace Branch Library, 5.17.10, 1:01 p.m.
--Young man in Raiders sweateshirt, Lakeview Terrace Branch Library, 5.17.10, 1:01 p.m.
speaker of the house
"Hey Bill!! Whose fault is that?? We're up at that Zeli Cafe, where we had that really good sandwich." --loudmouthed galoot at, yes, Zeli Cafe, La Canada, CA, 5.13.10, 6:12 p.m. "Bill" was on speakerphone.
Gonna get me a jeep!
"Challenger? That sucker's 40,000 dollars! That got a V-8. Hello? Hello?? Hello??? Hello???? I gonna get me a Jeep, 25,000." --Young man in 7-11, Lakeview Terrace, CA, 5.4.10, 1:06 p.m.
abuse of some kind
"..Do I have a substance abuse problem or am I abusive in some other way? All these things have to be worked out. I don't feel like that should be my job...I wrote that letter to him...she did a terrible job and it should be modified...and the tax evasion and the garnishment, the custody arrangements..." --woman in McDonald's, La Canada, CA, 4.20.10, 9:40 p.m.
Mom and Money
"I had a revervation with US Airways and I had a question about my flight. The flight was for my mother's funeral which was yesterday April 7 and I wanted to see if there was a bereavement discount offered. I was to see if there was a bereavement discount...my reservation number is 345943. I have the death certificate and I have the flight reservation. I'm assuming this is all I need to have..." --Man in Zeli Coffee, La Canada CA, 4.8.10, 6:30 p.m.
prayer...
"he's gonna tell Brad. Maybe he did...important to him? Oh, he did? What's important? Yeah, he was trying to grab me...I'll call you later...pray for me Richard!" Young woman in Coffee Bean, 300 N. Glendale Ave, Glendale CA, 4.3.10, 6:55 p.m. The man she was sitting with was staring into space while she went on and on.
parenthood
"What did you get yourself into at school today? I heard it was really serious...but do you know why?...She left me a message..your assistant principal." --Woman in Ihop, Tujunga, CA, 2-19-10, 3:30 p.m.
Social dimedia
"They got into a huge fight on Myspace. It's different on Facebook...if I invited people to a cocktail party I'd invite a whole different group...she got so mad that she deleted and blocked me and got so mad that she wouldn't talk to me ever. And her mom told her before that there was gonna be trauma...and I had to hear about it from Debbie..and she's like, you guys are retarded..." --Young "woman" at Zeli Coffee, La Canada, CA, 2.12.10, 12:30 p.m.
Edward? Edward?
"This is Edward L****...I was looking over the list in the email. It's E-D L-U-V-E-R. Remember?" --Edward L****, in Lakeview Terrace Branch "Library" public computer section. Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 12:45 p.m.
ambition
"goals are negotiation, larger things, your success...every penny over this, sue this guy, that's the deal.." --young male narcissist in Coffee Bean across from Glendale College, CA, 1.23.10, 7:20 p.m.
motherhood
>"Once you lose the baby...that's the pill!! It's called the morning after
>pill!!"
>
>--loudmouthed woman in Panera, La Canada, CA, 10/26/11, 6:16 p.m.
>pill!!"
>
>--loudmouthed woman in Panera, La Canada, CA, 10/26/11, 6:16 p.m.
Bin done
"Did you hear about Osama Bin Laden?" --Blonde woman at Starbucks, Malibu Country Mart, Malibu CA, 5/3/11, 5:15 p.m.
merry christmas
"You want me to buy you that watch for Christmas? How much is it? I'll find one on ebay. But meanwhile I'll get you that one." --same galoot, same day
speed it up
"He's going downtown with this? Going to court? How long we gonna wait? How long we gonna wait? OK so how you gonna do that? End of January? He gets more and more time--just gets more and more time. He's the luckiest dude in the world. who do we have to give it to? We have to speed this up. We need to go downtown and beat someone's ass to make this speed up." --Man in Zeli Coffee, La Canada, CA, 12/20/10, 6:15 p.m.
meaning of libraries
"Yeah I'm over here dude. At the libary. They have these movies here." --man at Lakeview Terrace Branch Library, Lakeview Terrace, CA, 1-24-2012, 1:25 p.m.
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