Eavesdropping

I am taking a class through the Center for Journal Therapy.  One of my recent assignments was to eavesdrop on another conversation and write about it.  I wrote a poem about the converation that I heard but now I notice interesting conversations everywhere I go.  This happened to me just recently as I was waiting to get my oil changed.  A lady walked in and immediately started talking- without even saying hello- she seemed to have an agenda.  It went something like this:

Dude:  Can I help you?
Lady:  Yeah, my sister called in for me yesterday to get me an appointment.. She called one store and they gave her the number for this store then she called this store and someone said you had an appointment for this morning around this time and I think it was 9 or 10 but she called yesterday before you closed so it may have been around 2 or 3 when she called but I'm not sure...
Dude:  Okay, what's your phone number?
Lady:  It's xxx-xxxx but that might not be in the system because like I said my sister called for me and besides my phone just got turned off because I couldn't pay the phone bill and my no-good man said he would get me another one but that was last week and he didn't get his check yet...
Dude:  Alright, let me look it up by your name...
Lady:  It's Sylvia Jackson but it might say Sylvia Thompson because I just got married.
Dude:  Yeah, it's in here... it says Sylvia Jackson.  Your appointment was for 8:30 this morning.
Lady:  Well you can just leave it in there as Sylvia Jackson because I just got married but I'm plannin to be about divorced soon so just leave it in there like that.  Oh, you said 8:30, huh?  Well, I told that guy on the phone that I couldn't come in at 8:30 because I couldn't catch the bus and I'd have to have someone come pick me up and someone else to drive the car here and then I would have to get to work so he said 10:30 and I said that's good but maybe he didn't put it in like that so how about it... can you get me in now?
Dude:  Well, we're pretty busy now.  The soonest I can get you in is after 4:30 this afternoon.
Lady:  Oh 4:30 huh?  Well, yeah, go ahead and put me down for then but I'll try to get another ride up here but I'm not so sure I can make it in time so if I don't make it can you just put me down for another time tomorrow, too? 
Dude:  If you can't make it at 4:30 we can reschedule then.
Lady:  (blank stare as if waiting for some other reaction... or hand-out)
Dude:  Is that all I can help you with, then?
Lady:  Alright then. 


Okay, so I was listening to this conversation just trying so hard not to laught.  I had my notebook out and was trying to write down everything that was being said.  So what's the point?  Nothing.  It was just funny and I thought I would share.  Look around and listen to the lives of others today. 

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