Entry Number Two, Week Four: Eavesdropping Exercise. "Angry Birds."

I wrote this while sitting in the B.D. Owens Library. I was sitting at a table on the second floor and listening to the conversation of the two gentlemen sitting at the table facing my back (I did glance back, casually, of course, to get a physical description).

“Karl, how did your physics test go,” asks Brian. Brian is probably around twenty-years-old. He is wearing a green t-shirt that says, “Northwest Missouri State University,” in white font and a pair of dark-wash jeans. Obviously, Brian has tried to dye his hair recently. It is a mix of orange, red, and a brown, like a fall leaf-gone-bad. Brian’s body frame is slender, yet his face is full. His complexion isn’t clear; he has some pock marks from acne and a few new zits are forming. Brian’s smile is crooked, yet playful. His voice is medium-pitch, but a little nasally.

“Well, sketchy is the best word I can use to describe it”,began Karl slowly, “I just couldn’t get five of the problems. Karl is wearing a plain, purple shirt with dark-wash jeans; Karl is probably twenty or twenty-one. He has a “buzz-cut,” but I would guess that if his hair was grown out it would be black. Karl has on simple, black glasses. His face is clear, and I notice he has dark brown eyes. Karl’s voice is deeper, more down-to-Earth.

(I got Brian’s name later on, as I continued working)

Brian: “Don’t worry, Karl. If you fail, then we can just drop out of school together and sell products used for ‘extra-curricular activity’.”

Karl: “Ha-ha, you’re right. I have a solid grade in the class, so I’m not going to worry too much. By the way, what are we doing for Halloween?”

Brian: “Costume wise?”

Karl: “Yup.”

Brian: “I was thinking SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and Gary.”

Karl: “Absolutely not. It’s been too overdone. What about the Angry Birds characters? I found some on a website, but they’re like $48.00.”

Brian: “It’s a little more than I wanted to spend but a great idea! I want to be the red one.”

Karl: “It’s is my idea, so I’m going to be the red one. You can be yellow; Johnny can be the black one. We should make Angie the pig.”

Brian: “Don’t you know anything about girls? That’s only going to make her mad, and then you’ll never get anywhere.”

Karl: “Oh, like you’re some expert. Didn’t you take your last girlfriend to some stupid comic book thing?”

At this point, a girl came and interrupted their conversation. Actually, I had another dialogue I had planned on using, but I scrapped it when I heard this one. I think I loved the conversation so much because my sister and roommate are obsessed (I know nothing about it) with the computer game, Angry Birds, so I immediately had to text both girls.

-Abigail (Abbey) Lawrence J