Things People Say.

Last week Trey wanted to know why I was throwing away some Kroger coupons.

They've expired, I said.

Why are they sending us expired coupons? he demanded, angrily . . .

And this week:
I want to go hiking through Germany, for three or four days, he said, because the nature is more advanced in Europe . . .

I hope you don't go to Marihuana and Cocaine and Heroin parties when you are a lawyer, worried my mother. You don't know what it could be like, she said, deeply concerned, you could be in one of those grand hotels and then someone just says would you like to snort some marihuana or shoots you up with some cocaine. . . You just never know what could happen.

And from- have you ever heard the saying, the empty barrel makes the most noise? Not only does this girl have to have really stupendously idiotic ideas, she has to broadcast them at the top of her voice-: No one speaks English fluently, she announced, except for maybe Webster, he the smartest man in the world, he the next Bill Gates. In the same breath she asked us "What do you call a flying cow? A Dairy queen!

We were discussing activities in the country. I have friends that live in the country, I said, they have deer and turkeys and shoot them. Next time, we're going to shoot skeet.

Aww, said a girl in the front row, genuinely concerned for the skeet, that's so cruel.