That reminds me of something I overheard several years ago, while walking down the halls of some generic aeronautics and space administration. A nerdy engineer appeared to be making the normal banter with a co-worker. Yet as I walked by, nerdy middle-aged engineer guy lays out the line, "I dread the place in which I know my destiny lies." or some such melodramatic crap.

I wrote it down at the time, but didn't deem it important enough to go look it up now.

I do love moments like that, though.

There was another time, in a grocery store, when a man was on the floor, and he reached up with a shaking hand to grab his wife's collar. He pulled her ear down to his mouth, and whispered intensely, "Earn this." He then handed her a pint of Chunky Monkey and slumped to the floor of the frozen foods aisle.

O.K., so that last one was me the last time MEB and I went shopping, but that makes it no less poignant.