According to the Internet, there already is an Overheard in Bakersfield site, but the only comment on the site is the subhhead — “It’s not THAT bad.”
Well, I am here briefly today to report that in fact there is a lot of good dialogue to be overheard at the In-and-Out in Bakersfield.
This is partly a test of blogging-by-phone, which hundreds of millions of others perhaps have already accomplished via Twitter perhaps…but nonetheless I still think it's enjoyable and fair to engaging in quiet overhearing in a public space.
People so often speak so concisely!
A little girl, perhaps four or five, looking at her dad’s hand:
It’s so cracked…
A charismatic young guy, Latino, short but good-looking, who told his buddies that his mother had fallen in to a really deep depression after his older brother had been incarcerated. Like two years.
Fanatico
Earlier he had kiddingly confronted a buddy who I guess was complaining about something:
Why you cry?
Kit Stolz 