Just to be cool, I submitted the following exchange to Overheard in New York. But when that site’s confirmation message informed me that it would take several weeks for me to get my online gratification, I decided to go ahead and post it on my own turf instead.

The time is a week ago. The location is Columbus Circle, in front of Time Warner Center. The players are two middle-aged men, walking in front of me — until I pass them by and hear the following snippet of conversation from them:

Middle Aged Man #1: So I heard you married her.

Middle Aged Man #2: Yeah, I married her, all right. I married the hell out of her!

And I’m sure she divorced the dickens out of him. (Could that be the forthcoming post title that will appear when OINY runs this?)

UPDATE, 9/13/2006: Turns out it wasn’t weeks. OINY went ahead and posted my submission.

And no, they didn’t use my cutesy post title suggestion. Instead, they went with:

‘Til Death Do Us Motherfucking Part, Beeotch

Catchy.

You’ll also note that the wording is different over there. I don’t know if they edited it, or if I related it differently. I was going by memory both times, so I’ll assume the discrepency is mine. Either way, the essence of the story remains.