Random Conversations

Not-So-Well-Dressed Woman: I hate shopping.
Much Fiercer Girlfriend: You have to love it, because we really need to avoid this look.

--W. 8th & Broadway (NYC)


20something Black Queen On Cell Phone: Why can't he stay with a frat buddy? Or at a hotel? I mean, why does he have to spend the weekend with me? (Pause) Yes, we're brothers. (Pause)But I hate his clothes, the way he looks, the way he smells and most of all, those ridiculous grey Birkenstocks he insists on wearing with everything.

--N. Halsted and Melrose (Chicago)