cafe tete-a-tete

(overheard from two guys sitting at a table outside of a Pacific Heights coffee shop, commenting on everyone who walks by, and just being generally inane.)

first dude: I want to find somebody who can listen to me for weeks on end and pick a certain direction and write a book about it. I don't want to do it myself because I will flavor it with my intentions. ... because everybody is always telling me, "You should write a book, you should write a book."

(and in between these observations, as a woman walks by) Oh, nice and jiggly. Jiggly's my favorite. I call it jelly.

(second dude comments about how vivid first dude's descriptions are)

first dude: here's another one .. I'm driving over HWy 17 and there's this cement luge and a single aspen leaf and I'm driving along and I'm tearing around this corner but all I see is this leaf falling slowly, floating to the ground and then, bah-ROOOm! I'm back flying around this corner and could have crashed.

second dude: By the way, that right there, "cement luge," that's amazing

first dude: I'm one of the only guys I know who writes poetry.

second dude; Poetry, huh?

first dude: I'm not that good at writing poetry, but I'm great at prose ...

(first dude, looking to the street where a tire squeal is heard) "Yeah, faster! Run down the guy with the baby!"

second dude: Do you have a girlfriend?
first dude: Well, I'm really broken in that way, so I'm moving on ... I'm finding I'm losing myself in the eventuality of death.

(pause)

second dude: you're way too Buddhist.

first dude: There's nothing to watch in Redding except for snotty little teenagers. ... By the way I know it's boring but this is one of my favorite things to do in the city.

second dude: It's not boring ... it's like a buffet.

first dude: Man I need some tooth floss bad.

second dude: I hate that

(SUMMARY OF NEXT 10-20 MINUTES: first dude talks to a pigeon, saying good morning and what do you think of my shoes? while the other guy talks about this bisexual woman he wanted to have a relationship with but he wouldn't unless he could talk to the other woman she was with at the time)

first dude (as a guy and his girlfriend go by): Damn, they looked related. Had some really strange kind of chemistry going on.