What a great day!

Yesterday was a really terrific day outside, so I decided to walk around my neighborhood hunting for churches. It wasn’t that hard, because they’re everywhere for some reason. No shortage of churches in the Ukrainian Village. Lucky for you, I brought my PDA along, and I put all the photos up on my photoblog.

Also, we’re starting a new feature today! Starting today, every Monday mikeschramm.com will feature real things spoken by real people that I’ve heard in the past week. Banal conversation in my bookstore, strangeness in line at the grocery store, even eavesdropped tidbits from parties and events! You’ll find it all here every Monday on mikeschramm.com.

And you can help. If you hear someone you don’t know say something dumb, send it (word for word) to overheard[at]retardedjimmy.com, and we’ll post it up here the next Monday. Let’s all laugh at the human race in a random, anonymous way! HA!

This week is kind of sparse because I only thought of it on Friday, but do me a favor and help me flesh it out next week by sending in your own. Logically, I’ve decided to call this feature…

“She said she was hungry, so we have to go to Starbucks.”

“Dad, remember when we were here yesterday and I was doing this? Dad! Remember when we were here yesterday and I was doing this? [kid bangs head into rope barricade] Dad?! I was doing this? Remember, Dad? We were here yesterday and I was doing this? [bang bang bang] DAD!”
“Yeah, buddy. That was last week.”

“This book is in Spanish.”
“No it’s not, it’s a real book.”
“This book is in Spanish, it’s all Spanish.”
“No, I’m telling you, it’s real. Bring it here.”
“It’s Spanish.”
“No, it’s a real book. Look, it’s real.”

“I swear I never knew Bambi was a boy. The whole time, I thought Bambi was a girl, until the end. All of a sudden he shows up with antlers and he’s like, [deep voice] ‘Hey.’”

Overheard will run every Monday on mikeschramm.com. Send in all that dumb stuff you hear people say!