Overheard at a Botanical Garden Restaurant

J.P. Melkus
The Clap
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1 min readApr 7, 2018
  • Appetite… Bogonias… second opinion
  • I just don’t understand it!
  • Aru-gew-la
  • Surgery
  • Vitamins
  • Her appearance
  • Sleep through the night
  • Hot flash
  • Limp [Not sure if referring to salad or bum leg — ed.]
  • Tilapia
  • Antidepressants
  • Sugar is my downfall
  • Antacids
  • Radishes
  • It’s his health
  • Oh, my Lord!
  • It affects the skin
  • Al-vocados
  • Ailment
  • The breath
  • Orchids
  • On toast
  • That’s terrible!
  • Japanese maple
  • There’s a whole book on it now
  • It’s a cream
  • Cream
  • Florida
  • You can use it in salads
  • Mostly bile
  • Digestion
  • Is [the cough] productive?
  • Indigestion
  • Not trout, gout
  • Diet
  • Died
  • Seaweed solution
  • Bladder
  • He’s an attorney
  • But these are supposed to be less upsetting
  • Inflammation
  • A specialist
  • He’s miserable
  • Is there no adult bok choy?
  • Decaf
  • Benign
  • Bunion [might’ve been “onion” — ed.]
  • They’re having trouble
  • Arizona
  • I can’t imagine it!
  • A stent put in
  • No!
  • Thirty-four, if you can believe it
  • Her figure
  • Pains
  • Puffy
  • And why would she?
  • Fennel
  • Fern
  • These are children
  • Gas
  • Condition
  • Could we look at the dessert menu?
  • It was a fern

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J.P. Melkus
The Clap

It's been a real leisure. [That picture is not me.--ed.]