Hill District

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Mon 11 Dec 2006

The first sign of the Apocalypse was disappointingly boring.

71C Outbound, Hill District.
Ahead of the bus, a car drives eratically for a few blocks before veering into a parking garage.

Woman in Holiday Sweater: [to no one in particular] Probably a drunk! I can’t believe they let people like that drive.
Man in Tragic 80s Windbreaker: [loud enough for the whole bus to hear him and stare] I hit people all the time when I drive. I don’t know what I’m doing. The Devil gets inside me when I get behind the wheel!

— Overheard by TheConnor

Fri 24 Mar 2006

“Word sure does get around fast in this neighborhood,” thought Frank.

King of the Hill Beer Distributor, Hill District.
A small elderly black woman in a hot-pink turban is telling a clerk how to load six cases of beer into her Cadillac’s the trunk:

Old Lady: That’s the way; that’s the way. Don’t shake it. You shake it, everybody gets wet.

— Overheard by N