She overheard several teens earnestly discussing Kim Kardashian's new hair color and shuddered involuntarily. 

 "Life leaves you with nothing but bad joints and faulty memories," Ike told me as I helped him up the front steps. 

 Let sleeping dogs lie unless under oath in a court of law. 

You can read the room, the signs, the signals, and the books, but still have no comprehension. 

 The inflatable ghosts began to pop up on the front lawns like so many toadstools beating the trees that had yet to produce fall foliage by several weeks. 

 Hal hated being wrong, but more often than not, was. 

 The kids all had handguns but no lunch money.