Persistent Distraction

Unauthorized Quotation #3

"Do you have anything like these, but nice?"

-- An annoying customer at a shoe shop in The Hague

Unauthorized Quotation #2

"The short answer is no.  The long answer is nnnnnooooooooooooooooooo."

--My buddy Neil, responding to a long-since-forgotten question

Unauthorized Quotation #1

"Is this the line for the Tribe Called Quest show?"

  -- My friend Philip, arriving to join the queue of remarkably pale, largely thirtysomething Seattleites in line for a Billy Bragg concert, circa 1996