Community Observation Gifts

'He lives in a house, and it's by the side of the road, but he's still not a friend to man.'

"Now, were those friends of your Gettys or Gottis?"

"The woman on the fire escape who acted like it was a balcony"

#Whyneighborsdon'tknowtheirneighbors

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

'Fancy you doing a curtsey and she being a non-serving royal, you big dope!'

Glance Exchange

The opera - 'Please, sir, give us your ticket, if you ain;t a-goin' in again.'

Nature is going crazy! Extremely hot summers, tornadoes, floods. . .and now Frank comes home sober on a Friday evening at 10 PM!

CIA, 'Confound it, Ruggles -- we're SUPPOSED to be worrywarts'

GOP exaggerating scale of immigration, inflation and crime rates

"Discussion topic: Is our society becoming less civil and more violent?"

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Harold, stop sucking in your stomach when the girls walk by. You're going to hurt yourself."

"Darling! We've become armchair socialites."

"I pick up on people's pain, Alexander. What's wrong?"

The Exhibition at the Royal Academy

Nervous at a party.

'She's the worst gossip I've ever come across.'

"I keep reading all these stories about virtual reality nookie."

"Do you remember when families used to get together and fight at Christmas?"

The United States of Amazement

"Bob, you've been warned before. You can't come to prayer just to gather gossip material."

Take a pill so you won't be one.

French beggars (the one with a 'Merci mille fois' sign has the most money).

"One of your delicious ducks got into my yard yesterday."

"The neighbors' place is a pig sty! Why can't we have something like that?"

Victorian Pub Scene

Chatty, garlic-coffee breath, apathetic, contagious

"This neighborhood has a strong sense of community that borders on siege mentality."

'I think they're still just sizing each other up.'