Miscellany

Walking home late the other night, I passed by my favorite local bar, a wine-and-beer-only lounge around the corner from my apartment. A group of noisy 20-somethings had spilled out on the sidewalk to suckle on some nicotine sticks and engage in a loud game of "I Never."

For those of you unfamiliar with such drunken diversions, "I Never" is a simple game of one-upping your fellow players with shocking revelations of things you've never done. For example, "I never did it outdoors," or "I never went without underwear," or "I never injected myself with an illegal substance."

As I approached, I heard a few rather tame examples, mostly from giggling, childish girls very clearly unrehearsed in the art of radiating any sort of feminine charm.

But, just as I passed by (forced to walk in the street in order to get around the juvenile mob blocking the entire sidewalk), I heard this brilliant pronouncement from an Asian lad with spiked hair: "I never used a mirror to look at my own asshole!"

Ahhh, youth.

And, some Halloween miscellany:

A sign on the door of my bank yesterday requested that people kindly remove their Halloween masks before entering, due to security concerns. This made me chuckle. Imagine a bank full of menacing clowns, skeletons, witches, Dubyas, etc. The security cameras wouldn't know where the hell to train themselves. Brilliant.

Perhaps my favorite thing about Halloween is that delicious handful of people you encounter throughout the day--the ones you can't quite discern if they're wearing costumes or not. Those cool eccentrites make head-scratchers out of everyone around them, at least for one day of the year. And I, for one, love them for it.

Posted by ayelet at November 1, 2006 09:49 AM