Overheard at my gym:

[muchabstracted]

Person 1: Have you seen Troy?
Person 2: The movie? No.
Person 1: Oh, it's an excellent movie, you have to see it. I've seen it two times and I'd watch it a third.
*pause*
Person 2: Brad Pitt?
Person 1: Yeah, that's why.
Person 2: I hear Hector's good too.
Person 1: And it's very gory.

Comments

[chanaleh]

Person 1: Have you seen Troy?

Person 2: Why no, but as it happens, I recently reread the Iliad...

Also, tell me you have seen this.

[muchabstracted]

I have not! And I suspect that you have not read this, unless LJ's '2 degrees of connections' are even scarier than I think.

[kraada]

I think the moral of the story is that people who go to gyms are really as stupid as you think . . .

[muchabstracted]

Undiscriminating, maybe.

[muchabstracted]

*grins* I got no objection to vapid gym conversation. I love listening to them. Were you to go to gym with me (which is clearly impractical, but never mind) I'm sure I would be starting as many vapid gym conversations as I could think of. In between bouts of scholarly discussion of literature and art history, of course.