December 12, 2012
Sights, scenes, and sounds from the Mission District of San Francisco. In this week's overheard conversation, real estate, love, and public transportation intersect just outside my window.
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Sights, scenes, and sounds from the Mission District of San Francisco. In this week's overheard conversation, real estate, love, and public transportation intersect just outside my window.
Read MoreSights, sounds, and scenes from the Mission District of San Francisco. This week, two gentlemen debate the proper amount of time a suitor must allow before he initiates correspondence with the lady he wishes to woo.
This week, MishMash ventures out of the Mission District to idyllic Santa Cruz, California ... and runs across a couple guys known in local parlance as "dad hippies."
Read MoreSights, scenes, and sounds from San Francisco's Mission District. This week, two young neighborhood newbies notice Oakland exists.
Read MoreOn the 14 Mission bus, two young dudes sitting in the back seat discuss a certain popular Madison Avenue-based cable television program.
MIRRORED SUNGLASSES DUDE: Dude, did you see Draper last night? When that old British dude just wailed on that other British dude with his cane? That was his son, yo. Like it was an ordinary thing to do...
Read MoreHipster-ish white guy and girl walking down 24th Street near Potrero, late on a warm Sunday night. The guy is drinking a bottle of beer, not brown-bagged.
SHE: Dude, did you bring your beer? Put that away.
HE: What?
SHE: Or, like, hide it or something. Don't be all waving it around. ....
Read MoreWhile y'all on the East Coast have been battling very real threats to your lives and towns, over here on the West Coast, we've been, uh, rioting about baseball. Overheard near 17th and Valencia, not far from two street fires, the night the San Francisco Giants won the World Series.
Guy: What the fuck, this some Occupy shit?
Cop: Naw, the Giants won.
Guy: Hate to see what happen when they lose.
Read MoreTwo twentysomething white dudes in Ray Ban sunglasses, walking by Dolores park, brandishing phones.
Dude 1: So if you know that E-Trade is $7 and Ameritrade is $10, what kind of trade would it have to be for you to...
Dude 2: Hold on, man, I gotta text this dude back. Are we going bowling?
Read MoreA group of young professionals waits in line at Bi-Rite Creamery.
(Teasing): "Look at her, rockin' that like 1987 flip phone!"
(Brandishing): "Yeah, I gotta admit it, I'm kinda proud of my flip phone."
(Defending:): "Hey man, nothin' wrong with that. She's thrifty. That's how she's a homeowner now!"
[Unintelligible financial small talk]
(She, being thrifty:) "Hey, you wanna live in the basement of my house? I'll give you good rent."
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