Summer of No Love

One side of a phone conversation, overheard while waiting in the shoe match line in Nordstrom Rack, downtown Portland:

WOMAN
You should totally come visit me this summer, it's amazing here.

PERSON IN SAN DIEGO
(inaudible)

WOMAN
No it's really nice weather in the summer. You can do everything, biking and surfing and all that. Well not surfing like in San Diego, but with a dry suit.

WOMAN
What? No, I love it here.

WOMAN
Well yeah, there are hippies. I'm not going to tell you there aren't hippies here, but really there's like, hippies everywhere, so I don't know how you can avoid them.

WOMAN
No, they're not really those kinds of hippies. The ones here are more like the kind of hippies that recycle and stuff.

WOMAN
Yeah, and a few dirty ones too.

(long silence)

WOMAN
Well, I still think you should come visit me.