He drank coffee from her cup. “Hmmm, coffee water,” he said.
“I tasted your coffee, yesterday,” she said. “It was so strong, I gagged. Who can drink such strong coffee?”
“A coffee lover,” he said.
Cleaning
Have you ever noticed that when you start cleaning something, you often discover, it’s dirtier than you realized?
Yeah.
Flying
You ever watch people driving around, and imagine them behind the controls of a flying car?
Pretty frightening thought, isn’t it?
Sock
You ever start to put your socks on, and notice a hole just starting in the toe of one? But you decide to put it on anyway, because it’s just a little hole. And then, you feel the hole enlarging as you go through the day, until you feel your toe pop through it, so now the sock hole is strangling your toe, and you rue your decision?
Really?
Rhetorical
Have you ever been out somewhere, and smell something funky, or bad, and think, is that me?, and then try to smell yourself to see if it is?
No, no, I never have. I was being rhetorical.
Mistake
Have you ever been groggy with sleep, and almost put the dishwasher soap-pellet in your coffee?
Yeah.
Messy
You ever notice that it looks like someone’s been eating at your computer, because there are crumbs around the keys?
Me, too. I wonder who?
Celebrities
You ever hear that a celebrity has been hospitalized or just died, and think, “I thought they died years ago.”?
Yeah, sadly, I do, once in a while.
Nature
He studied and struggled with the nature of who he was, because that was the nature of who he was. It didn’t comfort him to realize that, nor that there were many others like him.
That was his nature.
Scene
Have you ever been cleaning up a really messy vomit, and get it on you, and feel yourself about to lose it, which makes you laugh, because you imagine it’s like a scene in a silly movie?
Yeah, me, too.
Michael Seidel, writer 