University of East Palo Alto
May. 30th, 2003 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserIn Passing is a keen site. The chick who runs it posts snips of conversations she overhears daily. Today's made me giggle a lot:
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"Oh, University Ave/East Palo Alto. I thought you said 'University of East Palo Alto.'"
*pause*
"It's not unreasonable. And I can hardly hear you, so I'm gonna go... Look, would you stop it? I wasn't insulting anyone. You were laughing, you apologize to East Palo Alto."
--A guy talking on a cell phone at a gas station near the Dumbarton Bridge
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If you're not from this area, you'll probably miss the humor. EPA is a scary place. To quote a comment left about that overheard conversation:
"That's kind of like saying University of Compton, or University of South Side Chicago, or... you get the idea."
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"Oh, University Ave/East Palo Alto. I thought you said 'University of East Palo Alto.'"
*pause*
"It's not unreasonable. And I can hardly hear you, so I'm gonna go... Look, would you stop it? I wasn't insulting anyone. You were laughing, you apologize to East Palo Alto."
--A guy talking on a cell phone at a gas station near the Dumbarton Bridge
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If you're not from this area, you'll probably miss the humor. EPA is a scary place. To quote a comment left about that overheard conversation:
"That's kind of like saying University of Compton, or University of South Side Chicago, or... you get the idea."
