“I have to write that down…”
August 9, 2010
This is a phrase my friends here a lot from me. There’ve been countless times in which I stop a conversation completely so I can whip out my phone and sloppily text myself whatever they’ve just said that has me practically peeing my pants. Taken out of context, the things my friends say under the influence of insomnia or hysteria or sometimes both are hardly funny at all, so I’ve taken to carrying around a notebook to properly record their beautiful rendition of the English language. Thus inspiring the idea for a weekly (or bi-weekly, or whenever somebody says something I feel is accessible and relatable to the internet world) post about the things they’ve said. I’m realizing more and more, as I go through the scraps of paper, computer Stickies, texts or actual recordings of hilarious quoteables that it’s not just my friends who spew ridiculousness- its everyone in my life. My family, teachers, strangers on the street… I’m starting to think in some way I’m in someway encouraging the insanity that causes these quotes to come to life. I cannot be held liable for the things they say. I’m merely a scribe.
- “This is the most expensive game of twenty questions I’ve ever played!” -Sarah‘s thoughts on ‘ChaCha’
- “I can just imagine her getting stuck in it and like having to crawl down her stairs so that her mom can untangle her or like she’d have to inch like an inch worm.” -Sarah‘s thoughts on Alexa getting a Snuggie
- “For example, I would buy cats until I got tired of them, until I ran out of space, until I got arrested…” -Doctor Houston in trying to explain the conditional tense in French-4
- <Conversation between my Dad and I>
Dad: Hey Beck, will you poor me some iced tea?
Me: Dad, I thought you only drink purple drank now?
Dad: I do! But we ran out of purple DRANKKK!
