Cafeteria lunchtime....
I can hear myself showing off for her, and it makes me nervous.
She points to my plate. "God, what's that?"
"Technically they're fishsticks, but I think they're really Lincoln Logs. So I'm building a little cabin." I point to the spinach. "And that will go in the barn."
Ed is a high school dealer....
"If Ed finds out, he'll kick your arse."
"You know, I think we're more liable to see somebody walking a Chia Pet than we are to see Ed at Caltech."
Non-Date
I'm on my way out the door for my non-date when Grandma stops me.
"What happened to your hair?"
I take off my cap. "I stopped at Supercuts. They bleached it. And cut it a little."
"But why?"
"I just wanted to look different."
"There's different and then there's peculiar. A cat and a dog are different; a cat is not a peculiar dog."
I glance at the two campus policemen....
I read their nametags: Ketchum and Chu. It sounds like some horrible restaurant.
"What do Buddhists do? They don't go to church like regular people, do they?"
Marcie folds her napkin. "When somebody asked a monk what went on in the monastery, he said, 'We fall down and get up, fall down and get up.'"
Colleen grins. She's beautiful. "I guess they're not just clumsy."
"They might be that, too, but mostly he meant they're not too hard on themselves when they screw up."