After finding out that my library account will expire in two days and steps must be taken to retain my online access to the OED, I'm walking into the university library, past the usual cluster of smokers and cellphone talkers by the entrance. The non-smoking cellphone talkers lurk around inside the entrance, in the no-person's land inside the outer doors and outside the inner doors.
One of the outside guys is saying, "No, I'm in Richmond today for my son's orientation."
I walk into the exterior lobby, where one of the inside guys is saying, "You're in Richmond?"
So, what are the odds they're talking to each other?
109 words | June 23, 2005 08:48 PM | Real true story