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Eeavesdropped in NY


By Katie - Posted on 31 December 2008

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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 ."

*Urban Outfitters