My Gift to You

… for being loyal while I was on hiatus!
Ever since my mom found the Maxine greeting card from Hallmark that read, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit next to me,” it has been our motto.  Shoot – why the hell not?  I mean, snarky gossip is twice as awesome as eaves [...]

Overheard @ Office in SoMa

Location:
A gigantic kitchen in an undisclosed office in the SoMa district of San Francisco. 
Situation:
A handful of coworkers are hanging out while preparing their breakfast around the center island of the kitchen.  Two female coworkers get to reminiscing about how their mothers dressed in the 80’s.  One coworker told a story about how her mom used to wear muu muus big, flowing, [...]

Overheard @ Dragon Well

Location:
Four-top table in preppy, non-Chinese, Chinese food restaurant called Dragon Well on Chestnut Street in the Marina District of San Francisco.
Situation:
Cute-as-a-button little girl… three years old to be exact… coloring with a crayon on a two-page coloring book that Dragon Well provided her to keep her grubby hands out of mischief entertained.  Her dad is [...]

Overheard @ The Today Show

Location:
The San Francisco Bay Area local traffic station that reports for The Today Show.
Situation:
A respected, local traffic reporter with a straight face, mind you, reported,
“…there is a back-up [on the freeway] due to a porta-potty in the number 2 lane.”

Overheard @ California & Spruce

Location: 
In the fantastically beautiful, mega-wealthy Presidio Heights district of San Francisco in front of the neighborhood Starbucks. 
Situation:
Two well-kept high school (maybe college) girls dressed in designer preppy outfits.  Girl One – has lit cigarette hanging dangling from mouth while she attempts to light Girl Two’s cigarette.  Girl Two – pulls cigarette out of her mouth [...]