Overheard At Breakfast.

Several months ago. A couple at breakfast in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

He's having waffles with cream and maple syrup for breakfast.

"Honey," she says, and reaches over to take his hand. "I'm scared that one day I'll find you dead from heart disease."

He glances at her fruit and yoghurt.

"I'm scared that one day I'll find you've taken up jogging."

Overheard On A Plane No. 2.

A few months ago. A young professional woman seated directly behind me. She was speaking to someone she had just met, and speaking loud enough for people to have heard this ten rows away.

"I have to go back to work on Tuesday. I work in a school. I can't really complain, because I've just had six weeks holiday, but I will complain because I'm not ready to back yet.

I work in the western suburbs.

They're not as bad as people say they are, so don't listen to them.

I grew up in the south-east, on the peninsula, so I'm kind of like a refugee from there.

My school has about two thousand kids and I don't know half of them.

Oh my God! Two thousand kids? I mean, I don't even know how I manage half the time."

Overheard On A Plane.

Two people, a teenage boy and a young professional woman, met for the first time on a plane. They were seated directly behind me.  People 15 rows away would have heard this exchange.

F: "I'm more weirder than anyone I know, when it comes to music."

M: "Yeah? Well my tastes are right out there - left of centre."

F: "Well, my colleagues hate travelling in my car because I'm so out there."

M: "Really? Well, who do you like to listen to?"

F: "Coldplay. And Angus & Julia Stone."