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Ten Overheard Conversations.

I'm listening out. Be careful what you say.

1. Friend One to Friend Two, on seeing three men in the vicinity wearing red and white horizontally striped shirts: 'It's like playing "Where's Wally?"'
2. Pre-amble: Schrodinger’s cat is a thought experiment pertaining to quantum mechanics, in which a cat (a theoretical one, not a real one) is locked in a box with a very small piece of radioactive material, a Geiger counter and a flask of poisonous acid. The radioactive sample can theoretically either decay or set off the Geiger counter—in the case of the latter, a hammer breaks the flask and kills the cat with the poisonous gas. Because what happens to the sample is random, and because the box is sealed, we must imagine the cat as both alive and dead simultaneously. If this doesn't make sense, do what I did and Google, then Wikipedia it.
A pub garden in Hay-on-Wye.
Girl 1: You know Schrodinger’s Cat? Does that work for other things? Can it work for a carrot?
Boy 1: It has to be something alive.
Girl 1: Well my aunt is a vegan and she won’t eat mushrooms because she says they are alive even after you have picked them.
3. Guy from B——'s work: I'm an environmentalist: I let Mother Nature wash my car.
4. Same Guy: For Hush Puppies, these shoes are really loud. (This guy is telling us a lot about himself!)
5. This guy's a font, but when questioned on why he hadn't said anything quote-worthy lately, he promised: I'm going to tuck into my wisdom.