On Amtrak in Overheard

I’ve been meaning to start a new Prosebox book where I put entries about random stupid crap I overhear people say when I go places.

Right now I am sitting on an Amtrak train returning to the city. For my first entry in this book, here is what I just heard a woman talking loudly on her cell phone saying. She was talking about how she can’t wait until she and her fiance can start a family because they both have such good genes. And I shit you not, she in all sincerity said:

“We both have really good genes. There’s no HIV or AIDS anywhere, on either side of our family! HIV doesn’t run on either side, not one family member anywhere has it!”

Ummmm… HIV is not hereditary. Your kids couldn’t inherit that anyway.

You know what else your kids aren’t going to be inherent from you, lady? Intelligence.