CLYDE [owns the used bookstore in my town]: Hey! How are you? When are you going to have another book come out?
LISA: Well, they get remaindered faster and faster these days, so my next one will probably get remaindered before I finish it this time, so you should be getting a shipment any day now!
CLYDE: Haha. How are the kids?
LISA: Sassy. How is it not having kids?
CLYDE: Incredible! I knew what I was doing!
LADY BEHIND ME: Tell me about it! I got one shipped off to college, now I just have my 15 year old and my son's 18 year old baby-mama. They just turned her away from Portsmouth Hospital even though she said she'd do heroin if they let her out. I took her in even though she and my son are split up. I couldn't put her out on the street. But the hospital did! I don't know what to do with a junkie!
LISA: The whole state's bankrupt.
LADY: I blame the doctors. Anyone goes in complaining about a bad back or a toothache, they give 'em a script.
LISA: It's not just the doctors. It's the whole system. It's so expensive for them to go to school all those years, then they have to pay a ton of insurance for in case they get sued, and then they DO get sued. And patients' insurances don't cover a good 30-minute talk like you should have with your GP. They get everyone in and out to pay the bills. This country doesn't believe in a whole life approach or preventative care.
LADY: Now we are raising our grandchild and his mother. I'm tired! I'm 49 years old. I'm ready to die.
LISA: Jesus!
CLYDE: [looks terrified, pays for his packages, and runs out]