(@work, checking rooms for breathing and pulses, catching sight in the hallway of 21 year old mother nurse flipping channels)
ME: what are you watching?
HER: toddlers in tiaras
ME: .....
HER: girl. look it her. she look SO. CUTE.
ME: (staring at dwarf versions of vanna white and miss yvonne from pee wee's playhouse) wow.
HER: my daughter... she say she want to do this. be in pagents. compete with all the glitter and dresses. i said i don't know baby...
ME: oh man. my friend ivy did that?
HER: did it mess her up?
ME: she sings in a jean benet ramsey pop band. and she is obsessed with goiters and deformed children.
HER: oh. (flips channel)