stackmatic wrote:a lady you work with who winks about once every minute when you are in conversation with her, sometimes the winks occur at appropriate points in the conversation, at other times inappropriate, you think it is probably just a nervous tick but you don't come in contact with her often enough to know for sure, so you just wind up avoiding her as much as possible
Just better:
An enormous man who you've never noticed before is sitting in the cafeteria at work, falling asleep in his seat. He keeps jerking awake, looking at his watch, then falling asleep, over and over again. It's uncomfortable - you want to wake him up because everyone is staring - but of course it's also fascinating.
Just worse:
One of those people with a laugh that makes your stomach clench. However carefully you avoid them, you can still hear them cackling from across the room.
Kenny: a checkout clerk at Guitar Center who recognizes you and says, as he's entering your name into the system: "you're in the 'data,' right, man? You're in the 'base'?"