i am very easily amused

I have, I have realized, a dreadful habit of eavesdropping on strangers' conversations in shops, etc. Now, I like to pretend to myself that I am gathering source material for an as-yet-unwritten marvellous novel or hilarious essay, but, in all honesty, I'm just nosy. And one of these days, it is going to get me into trouble - for instance, today I had great difficulty stifling my giggles at a conversation between four tough-looking teenage girls in the shop beside my office, on the subject of how one of them was refusing to transport a live turtle somewhere for their boyfriend. Highlight of said conversation was the phrase "Can you not, like, purriminnableedin' carrier bag?", which nearly caused me to choke on my newly-purchased banana.

In other Lisa amusement news, someone on the Salon forums posted this on the subject of Cats Getting Notions Above Their Station:

A couple of times I've seen a mildly alarmed sheep galumphing across a pasture with a cat clinging to its wool and belaboring the sheep about its neck and shoulders with ineffectual paw whaps.

As a result of this, I am now literally wiping tears of mirth from my eyes imagining a certain cat of my acquaintance (oh, alright, stellanova, Juju) trying to bring down a sheep.