As I'm walking downtown I am sometimes struck by the out-of-context snippets of conversation that I overhear. Yesterday as I was crossing the street I heard one lady say to another lady "Yeah, well to them lamb isn't meat..."
What does that mean? Does she have a pseudo-vegetarian friend who is willing to eat lamb on occasion? Is the lamb-as-meat thing a reference to some sort of religious cleanliness; like how Jewish people cannot eat meat from hoofed creatures? I'd like to know...
I think it would be a lot of fun to go downtown sometime with a pad of paper and write down all the strange pieces of conversations that I overhear and then to come home and weave the words into stories, creating my own context for what these total strangers might have been saying to eachother.
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