1. An old person while clothes-shopping, referring to a cropped shirt: "yes, showing your umbilicus is all the rage." The saddest thing is, I'm related to her.
2. This is about a different old person ... actually, an old-ish person. In the middle of my homeroom class, she goes, "hey (my name), I hope you don't catch fire!" Yeah. For no reason. How was I supposed to respond to that, by the way?! "Thanks"? "I hope you don't either"? WHAT?!
3. Okay, this is a conversation between me and the same old-ish person as in point #2. So she can remain anonymous, we'll call her O-IP (old-ish person).
O-IP: Are you sad?
Me: No ...
O-IP: No, me neither.
This conversation was completely out of the blue. No one said anything about anyone being sad beforehand ... she just started talking.