Tuesday, May 3, 2011

OVERHEARD IN PASSING IN MONTEREY

"Where have you two been! We've been looking for you for the past fifteen minutes!"
Irate, middle-aged woman yelling at her husband and young son, in one of the exhibits at the Monterey Aquarium as an elderly man, who may or may not have been the woman's Father looked sheepishly on. The words by themselves don't convey the depth of her rage. It was all in the tone. I should have written her quote entirely in CAPS. She was fuming mad, and gave full vent to her fury in an extremely uncomfortable eruption of vitriol. Her husband who looked a little embarassed by the public dressing down shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, and said in a low voice "It has not been fifteen minutes." Sarah and I just got out of there before somebody pulled a knife or served divorce papers.

"I am not black! I am not black!"
Homeless man of unknown race yelling nonsensically at a group of men standing outside of the Monterey Brewing Company on Prescott Street.

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