Sometimes I have conversations with people and simply catalogue what they say. But mostly, I eavesdrop. Restaurants and diners and especially bars are good for that. People will say stuff you could never think up.
Here's a fairly new one that happened almost entirely due to eavesdropping:
And this one came out of two conversations with the same female friend, one about her traumatizing new job and the other about her breakup. She was speaking in the first person, which the song doesn't, but otherwise she practically dictated it to me word for word.
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