Overheard


between two graduate students discussing Mongolian grills and attire
A: Oh yeah, what'd you guys do?
B: We just went to Flat Top Grill and then saw Avatar.
A: Nice
B: Yeah, she seemed to be having a big time. We're doing something next weekend, so you know. That's good.
A: Sure. Do you like Flat Top?
B: Yeah, definitely
A: See, I always overdo it. I don't go there very often, and it's expensive when I do go
B: Yeah, it's way expensive.
A: Yeah, right? So I always try and get my money's worth, by piling on tons of sauces and everything, and it just comes out terrible. "Throw some black bean sauce on there with that Thai peanut, and put four ladles of some garlic sauce over the whole bit. Then mix three of every conceivable vegetable in there, about three servings of Seitan, a hardboiled egg."
B: And you gotta get that flatbread.
A: Haha, yeah! It ends up tasting like something thrown in a blender. I mean, it's alright. But it's never as good as if I had gone to decent Thai place or whatever, and just ordered pad thai.
B: That's really funny you mention that, because I sort of did that myself that night, but not with the food, with my clothes!
A: What'd you wear?
B: Well, she's a little hipster, as I think you know
A: Sure.
B: So I started off with some skinny jeans.
A: Absolutely.
B: But it was slushy as all get out that night, so I wore my serious, work snow boots.
A: Like cool ones?
B: Nope. Carharts.
A: Eeeh. Why do you have Carharts? I have NEVER seen you wear them.
B: I almost never do, but it was SO wet and slushy out. I knew they looked ridiculous, but I wasn't going to just soak my sneakers.
A: Right on. So you had some kind of hipster shirt with it?
B: See, that's the thing. Turns out I don't have any. So I went with a blue and yellow striped polo.
A: Hmm. Was it really tight? Or old or anything?
B: Nope, not at all. A little big if anything. And almost brand new!
A: Eeeh.
B: Yeah. It's a nice one and everything, I think I got it at Banana Republic or something. It looks nice with khakis.
A: Sure.
B: So for a coat. It was slushy, but not cold, so I went with a fleece track jacket.
A: You have a fleece track jacket?
B: Big time.
A: Soo...
B: But I thought I might get cold, so I topped it off with a cloak.
A: Oh dude, not the Jedi cloak.
B: Oh yes, the Jedi cloak! You totally can't tell that was a costume originally.
A: Man. You can totally tell, seriously. It looks like a Jedi cloak, straight-up.
B: I... I know.