Some local conversations:

1) At the local bakery in the college town that I now live in, a (tatted) (schlubby) (late 30-something) (white) guy who's a customer strikes up a conversation with the (scrawny) (tatted) (mid 30-something) (white) guy who works the counter, and is like, "Nice corn tattoo," and then he bares his arm and is like, "Mine is wheat," and, as I leave, he says that if you didn't continuously selectively breed corn, it would revert to being simple grass, and completely disappear.

2) Some (white) (50-something) (female) customers talk with me about suspicious homeless people around town, and one says that there's that one (tall) (white) guy with the skateboard who you see around downtown, and she saw him way the f*ck out on the edge of town walking through the middle of the trailer park where she lives, and he didn't have any reason to be there, and he was walking around and looking at everything like he was casing the place.

"It's a small town," the other one was like, in response to our discussion of local attempts at breaking-and-entering. "Whoever's doing this is going to get caught pretty quickly." 

3) When I was asking my one (female) (Guatemalan) coworker about how her pregnancy was going, she said it was all going great, it's just like her other pregnancy from years ago, no nausea or anything.

"Pero yo, yo tengo nausea..." I was like ("But I, I have nausea..."), "...cuando miro el presidente" ("...when I look at the president"), and she and several other (Guatemalans) who overheard me got a chuckle out of that one.

4) After a (white) (foreign) (grad student type) doesn't leave an automatic tip, I do "that thing" at the table about poking around for a tip, only to suddenly notice a five dollar bill sitting out under a water glass, at which I'm immediately like, "Oh, I'm so sorry," and at which the woman says of course, she doesn't want to get us in trouble, etc.

"And now you learned to look at the table," my one (younger) (taller) (Thai) coworker tells me, when I update her on the tip situation and everything that happened.