Creative Eavesdropping

[Brynn]

Listen for as long as you dare, remember as much as you can, paraphrase or invent only as absolutely necessary to make it cohesive, but keep it rooted in the reality of the actual overheard conversation.

Link it to any post that comes before if it seems to fit into some kind of narrative, but feel free to introduce new overheard conversations all on their own. You may introduce new overheard characters or take old conversational fragments into new directions with newly eavesdropped material as you are inspired.
Provide original location, but feel free to change the location for a new "borrowed conversation" as you might require for your own purposes.

Ideally, the overall effect is a flowing, cinematic one of following one or more characters for a ways until it hits a wall and a new interesting one interacts and takes over, but don't hesitate to post overheard fragments in isolation to be used later. The real creativity will come from editing together at any point disparate posts into a narrative flow.

This may or may not work, but at the very least it's a way to warm up if you're experiencing writer's block.

I'll kick it off.

(overheard on the bus)
Woman: I would think that in a polyglot situation like that...
Man: Oooooh. "Polyglot." Someone's had her coffee this morning!
Woman: ...that it would be confusing for...
Man: You don't like me very much this morning, do you?
Woman: Here are the comics. Read them.