Overheard: This is a 3-minute warning. We’re
going to start in 3 to 4 minutes. So get a drink, go pee, whatever you need to
do.
Where it took me: OK, fair enough, I did not
overhear this at Starbucks. These were the first words of the MC at a literary
reading I was at earlier this week. To me, this sounded like a dad talking to
kids. He wasn’t at all being condescending even though he was talking to a room
of adults in a bar; I was just struck by the way our discourse changes as the
circumstances of our life change.
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