Eastbound 14, 3:45 PM

High-school girl 1: “It’s a dinner. I’m getting in free or I wouldn’t be going. They called and asked if I wanted fish or chicken.”

HSG 2: “Fish!”

HSG 1: “Please! You don’t know what the fish looks like. You can’t just say ‘fish’ over the phone like that. Chick-en.”

Eastbound 4, 3:45 PM

A group of teenage boys is antagonizing a fortysomething man dressed in work clothes and boots.

Boys’ ringleader: “Man, I make more in an hour than you probably make in a whole day.”

Fortysomething man: “I make 54 bucks an hour.”

BR: “Seriously? What do you do?”

FM: “Electrician. Journeyman.”

Random boy: “You work every day?”

FM: “Seven days a week.”

BR: “Dang. You’re pulling in some serious cheese.”

The bus reaches fortysomething man’s stop, and he gets off.

BR, to his friends: “I’d stop hustling for a job that paid like that.”

Southbound 17, 1:45 PM

Teenage boy 1: “Boys II Men was depressing.”

TB 2: “Depressing how?”

TB 1: “Depressing like, ‘I will never go to another R&B show unless my girl is there.’”

Northbound 48, 8:50 AM

Middle-school girl, to her friend: “That sign says Metro buses are fueled with veggie oil, but they’re lyin’, because if they were, it would smell like French Fries in here.

Friend: “How do you know?”

MSG: “Oscar told me. Plus, I saw it on ‘Pimp My Ride’.”

Northbound 48, 8:40 AM

Middle-school boys, on...

Fashion:

Boy 1, to Boy 2: “Your pants are hella faded. Your mom wash those or something?”

Boy 2: “You’re supposed to wash ‘em.”

Boy 3: “Yeah, but you have to turn ‘em inside out.”

Boy 1: “Well, it looks like she used bleach. Tell your mom not to use bleach when she washes your shit.”

Education:

Boy 4 (an outsider), to Boy 1: “You go to Meany?”

Boy 1: “Yeah.”

Boy 4: “I think you were in 6th grade when I was in 8th.”

Boy 1: “I didn’t go to Meany in 6th grade. I went to Triple A, but I got suspended.”

Boy 4: “Where you going next year?”

Boy 1: “Franklin or The Beach, I guess. I already know: When I go to high school, I’m getting suspended.”

Sexual orientation:

Boy 4, to Boy 1: “You have Miss Mendoza this year?”

Boy 1: “Miss Mendoza went to Mexico.”

Boy 4: “For real?”

Boy 1: “I think she left because everybody found out she was a lesbian. She told the whole class and told us not to tell anybody, but we went around and told everybody.”

Punctuality:

Boy 2, to Boy 3: “What time does first period start?”

Boy 1: “Second period started seven minutes ago.”

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