13 June 2007, first implementation of my new project

I went with Adam and Jenny and JMatt to see Faust in Central Park, complements of the free Metropolitan Opera in the Park.

1.
JMatt (to a car of 3 others): What’s the highest you’ve ever counted?
Adam: Hmmm, that’s a good question...
Jmatt: When I was a kid I counted to 1200… out loud… on a really long car trip… until my dad yelled at me, "MAAATT!"

2.
JMatt was politely asked by Jenny to stop grabbing and loudly letting go of the ceiling handles in the car. About 40 minutes later, after accidentally just letting go of the handle: Oops! Sorry! (or maybe he said, "oh shit, sorry!")

3.
Me: I lost my pencil
(JMatt reaches to the pen in his pocket.)
Me: I have a pen
(Jmatt hands me his pen…)
Me: Okay fine, I’ll use a… pen... -cil
(As his pen-shaped utensil reveals itself to be a pencil)

4.
Me, writing down the moment of JMatt letting go of the ceiling handle in the car: What d’ya call these?
Jmatt: "Oh shit" handles
(Okay my housemate may have just ruined this for me, I didn't know they were already called that. Damn, I thought that was a unique JMatt-ism. Poo... well, still funny, to me...)

5.
After being invited to the city, I said to JMatt, "Okay, but maybe I should go home and get some shoes" (because I was only wearing flip-flops, and it was chilly and maybe going to rain). In the end, he denied me in the interest of "time".
Later, in the car, getting on 495 from the GCP, as it's starting to rain, JMatt: I should’ve brought an umbrella.
Me: I have an umbrella, but I’m gonna have to use to it wear over my feet.

6.
Me: Wait, does that count if I'm the only one laughing? Can I count that one?
JMatt: Is that something that you’d write LOL when you're chatting?
Me, not hearing correctly: That I would write LOL when I’m “shatting?” No, I don’t LOL when I’m shatting!

7.
After parking and entering the park to go to the great lawn to see the Met Opera, JMatt stops to look at Central Park map as the rest of us keep walking. Then he looks both ways and realizes that we're not stopping and quickly jumps up and catches up (at least, this was my interpretation).

8.
Jenny goes for a walk.
After some minutes, JMatt: I’m worried about Jenny. Central park is no place for a single woman to be walking alone in the dark.
Me: She’s not single, she’s got Adam
JMatt: No, I meant single like alone.
Me: I know. Hey, I’m single and I’m in the park!
Adam: Say that a little louder.
Me laughing.
A moment later, JMatt laughing.
Me: What?
JMatt: I was just laughing because I was thinking of that graph you sent.
Olivia: What?
JMatt: It was a graph of Lee’s success with men.
See below, the graph my friend made for (of) me:


9.
Me, lying on a blanket, after hearing JMatt, lying down on an adjacent blanket, talking for a while: Oh my God, I totally thought JMatt’s head was down there!
JMatt: What?
Me: Well, according to my perception, you were just talking out of your ass.
(I was already laughing, but to which he replied: Oh, so it would be just like any other day; and I replied: Exactly!)

10.
It's dark out, still in the park, opera still going. I look up, and...
Me: Look, there’re birds flying.
Olivia: They’re bats.
Me: No, they can’t be, they’re too big.
Olivia: I saw some bats… (I didn’t understand the rest)
Me: There are bats in Manhattan?
JMatt: There are bats in the belfries.

11.
JMatt, to Adam: Don’t crush Jenny while I’m trying to talk to her.

12.
The opera stops. I'm thinking it must be intermission, and comment on this, but lots of people are leaving, so I'm not sure.
JMatt (potentially in reference to the two rows of 20 or so porta-potties): There’s no intermission in the park ‘cause you can go to the bathroom whenever you want.

13.
After JMatt said something about having a room next door to Annie's, I say: What?
JMatt: Jenny was like “get your fist out of my butt.”

14.
JMatt: You guys wanna play bocci with this watermelon and some plums?

15.
JMatt, as we are all leaving the park and heading towards the row of porta-potties: I have to go to the bathroom.
Me, as he puts the chocolates in his pocket: Okay, don’t drop the chocolate in the toilet.
JMatt: Oh, that’s what the kids used to call it.

16.
JMatt: I’m concerned that I have an enlarged prostate.