…of the day: a couple of Saturday morning conversations

Early Saturday morning conversations…

Overheard at Starbucks:

Child: Mom? Donuts!
Mom: Yep
Child: I want one of those… donnnuts.
Mom: No, not one of those.
Child: But it’s chocolate donuts.
Child: I love chocolate donuts.
Mom: Yes, I know you love chocolate donuts.
[Child presses his face against the display window and keeps eyeing the donuts]
Mom: Ok, tell the man what you’d like.
[Child hesitates with humms and ummm and awwwws]
Mom: Tell him or you’ll lose your turn!
Child: Um, I’d like um, a milk.
Starbucks guy: 2%?
Child: Um….. A kid’s milk!
Mom: Yeah, 2%.
Child: ‘Cause I’m a kid, you know!
[People laugh. I laughed.]
Starbucks guy: One kid’s milk…. and?
Child: Donut! Chocolate donut.
[a pause]
Mom: Sure.
Starbucks guy: One kid’s milk and chocolate donut.
Child: YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Wooohoooooo!

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Waiting in line outside of the walk-in clinic in the early morning. Small talk with the middle-aged scrawny guy with tattoos on his arms. He’s number 2 in line.

A police officer parks across the street and makes her way to the bakery next door.

Tattoo guy: Oh, I thought she was coming here to check out the window.
[He lights a cigarette. I don't crave one but it smells good. I get a bit closer to him.]
Me: The window? Why would she do that?
Tattoo guy: Someone tried to break it last week. But it didn’t work. It’s tempered glass.
Me: Wow.
Tattoo guy: Yeah, Dr Rogers got a call late at night when he was still here. Someone was trying to break in by kicking in the window but they didn’t manage to break it. So apparently he stayed at his clinic until the morning. That’s like…. [he stops to think a bit]… 6 hours or something.
Me: Hmmm. I guess that glass is like the glass they use in cars. It doesn’t break when you kick it.
Tattoo guy: That’s right.
[He pushes on the glass a bit.]
Tattoo guy: See? It’s really hard to break.
Me: Unless you had a small, sharp object of course.
Tattoo guy: Exactly. Like, for a car, you could use a screwdriver.
[We stop talking for a few minutes.]
Tattoo guy: Hmm. Actually, just a spark plug would do the job too, you know.
Tattoo guy: Yap, that’s all you’d need. Just a spark plug.

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