Here’s to you, Smooth Operator!

Posted by You Sir on Jun 1, 2010 in Conversations overheard, Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 7 comments

We’ll go ahead and get this out of the way…I’m an eavesdropper.  If you’re near me, and not talking to me, I’m still listening to every word you’re saying.  It’s what I do.  It’s half the reason this blog exists.  I don’t shut people out, I embrace every weird little thing I have a chance to experience.  Today, I’m calling out a hipster not just based on a conversation I overheard, but an entire afternoon I shared with him from across a coffee shop. I was at Dancing Goats in Decatur (home to the world’s best coffee, by the way) reading one Sunday afternoon when a young couple walked in.  They were stylishly dressed, both in almost all black.  The guy, we’ll call him Devin, was wearing black shoes, black pants, a black shirt, a black puffy vest, and black sunglasses.  He kinda looked like a hipster version of Randy from “My Name is Earl.” *This, plus all black everything They come in, get their...Read More

Here’s to you, two-stager!

Posted by You Sir on May 21, 2010 in Conversations overheard, Featured, Here's to you Sir!, Once Upon a Time in a Restroom | 2 comments

I would guess that public restrooms are a place of never ending awkwardness because it’s the only place on earth where you partake in your most personal and private events in such close proximity to other people who are also partaking in their own personal and private events.  Everyone has their own habits and intricacies, but I would have to say there are a few universal unspoken rules regarding public restrooms.  The most important of which is no talking.  Seriously, don’t talk.  I’m busy, you’re busy, and we should both be focusing on the tasks at hand.  During the Braves game yesterday I ran into the most heinous of bathroom offenders, cell phone guy.  Let’s call him Jake.  I don’t care how important this phone call is, Jake, but you need to hang up.  It’s just awkward.  Every bathroom has that same echoey, empty, “why did it just get suddenly quiet where you are?” sound to it.  You’re not fooling anyone on the...Read More

Here’s to you, relationship counselor!

Posted by You Sir on May 17, 2010 in Conversations overheard, Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 0 comments

There are many places you can choose to be at 2am on a Friday night.  Your bed might be one of them.  The disgusting restroom of a dive bar is probably not.  Unfortunately for my tiny bladder, I spend a lot of time in bar bathrooms, and Friday night was no exception.  Luckily, I had two guys to entertain me as I waited in line. The bathroom should have had 2 urinals and 1 stall.  One urinal was completely ripped off the wall, the other wrapped with a trash bag and tape with a handwritten “out of order” sign on top.  That left only the single stall for all male patrons to use.  I walked in to find one guy standing (staggering) in the middle of the bathroom and one guy in the stall.  I couldn’t figure out if the staggering guy was waiting in line or just talking to the guy in the stall, so I waited by the door.  It soon became apparent they were simply engaged in a very deep conversation.  Relationships.  Women.  Go figure…. Apparently staggering guy...Read More