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Eeavesdropped in NY
Here is what I had the pleasure of hearing while trying to work in a coffee shop. Not work as a barista but work, as in, write (they have wireless.)
Setting: coffee shop chain on the Upper West Side. Woman in her late 20s is siting in a booth, trying typing on her computer, half paying attention to what she's writing half paying attention to the three girls sitting in a booth behind her. The girls are either freshman or sophomores in college. Their voices go up at the end of each sentence, in an Upper East Side twang.
Girl #1: "I hear you"
Girl #2: [inaudible]
Woman: [what is she saying? I can't hear. If they are distracting me from my work they should have the decency to speak loudly enough for me to hear.] I'm obsessed with that expression
Girl #1: "I hear you."
Girl #3: "I hear you."
Woman: [wow, they love this expression "I hear you." Ironic that I am "hearing them."]
Girl #2: "I'm obsessed with that expression 'I hear you'."
Woman: [wow, she read my mind.]
Girl #2:"I've been so out of it because i didn't have my triple shot."
Girl #3: "Do you want to go to Urban*? It's still open."
Girl #1: "Yeah. Totally."
Girl #2:"I've been so out of it because i didn't have my triple shot today."
Girl #1: "How was your wax?"
Girl #3: "Does your dad what your expenses are? he doesn't know how much you pay for waxing, does he?"
Girl #2:"I just tell him i get waxed. I just tell him i go to ."

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