August 15, 2005

Eavesdropping #1

Location: Midtown Manhattan, lobby of corporate skyscraper

Security Guard #1: No, man. See, you want there to be one big truth but it's not like that. My truth doesn't have to be your truth. We all have our own truth. It's different for everybody.

Security Guard #2: Yeah. Yeah. [pause] Did you catch the game last night?

Posted by cari at August 15, 2005 03:36 PM
Comments

Thank you so much for hearing and sharing that exchange - it's the best thing I've read all day. Security guard #1 makes me smile!

Posted by: Amanda

I love catching little bits like that. Thanks for the laugh.

Posted by: Jessica

Man, I wish I'd seen that too...I would love to see the expression on Security Guard 1's face.

Posted by: Lee Ann

Heeeee. The philosopher and the .....um....security guard. ;-D

Posted by: Norma

that could almost be the beginning of a novel - about a brilliant, philisophically minded man who works as a security guard because....well, I don't know the because (I'm not a writer like you).

I just remember reading about some man who supposedly broke the curve on the I.Q. tests, who was working as a custodian at a grade school in Wisconsin (? I think) because he said in any other job people would take advantage of him, and he didn't like being taken advantage of. (He may have been a little bit weird as well as being highly intelligent).

Posted by: fillyjonk

Posts like that make me miss living in Brooklyn!

Posted by: Kim

There's the rub...

Posted by: margene

I love it.

Posted by: Em

No, no, no. There's only one truth, and it's mine.

Posted by: Amy

So, here's what I want to know: whose truth is the one that's supposed to set us free?

Posted by: regina

Heh. I would bet you a snack o'clock cookie that I know which guard said what...

Posted by: Andrea M.

I love it! Philosophy one minute, back to sports the next.

Posted by: The Knit Wit

That's deep, dude...so how 'bout those Cubs? :)

Posted by: carolyn

that's such a wonderful example of things I've been thinking about recently.
I love Amy's comment too.

Posted by: di