I overheard something rather amazing today. I was leaving the cafeteria to go back to my dorm, and I had to walk through the lobby area. Students promoting various orgainzations and causes (i.e., soliciting new members) had set up a bunch of tables in the lobby, one of which was apparently devoted to an AIDS-fighting association. So. I was walking behind some guy, and he was walking past the AIDS table.

Girl at AIDS table: "Would you like to join me and Bono in the fight against AIDS?"

Guy: "I think it's wrong to kill people who have AIDS."

Girl: "Not that kind of fighting. I mean, fighting the disease, preventing it, stuff like that."

Guy: "Don't worry - I'll wear a condom when I screw your sister." And then he walked away, leaving the girl looking as though someone had clobbered her with a two-by-four. I was probably smiling.

So, props to that guy for being able to think so quickly. I wish I was that clever (perhaps not in such a sick way). Cleverness would come in handy, being a writer and all. Instead of coming up with my own repartee, I have to steal other people's lines.

So it goes, I guess. So it goes.
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(See? That was me stealing Vonnegut...)