- Matthew Brock: I don't see what's so bad about the sandwich machine, anyways.
- Beth: What's so bad about it is that they change the sandwiches in it, like, once every leap year.
- Catherine Duke: Eww. Has anyone ever actually eaten one of those dried-up, old leathery specimens?
- Bill McNeal: What are you guys talkin' about?
- Dave: Uh, the sandwich machine by the elevators.
- Bill McNeal: Best sandwiches in the city... They're an acquired taste - like a good wine or cheese, a sandwich needs to be properly aged. In the olden days, a country squire would age his pheasants for weeks before they were deemed fit for consumption.
- Lisa Miller: In the olden days, people died of ptomaine poisoning and blamed it on ghosts.
- Dave: I really don't understand how you can eat those things.
- Bill McNeal: Well, they aren't what you would call conventionally tasty. I guess they just remind me of the sandwiches my mother used to make for me.
- Dave: Your mother made you sandwiches like that?
- Bill McNeal: Yes - she made a month's worth of sandwiches at a time. Then she'd leave them for me in a box on the porch. She was quite a woman.
- Dave: ...I'll bet she was.
- Lisa Miller: It's finally happening.
- Dave: What?
- Lisa Miller: I'm getting stupider.
- Dave: Huh?
- Lisa Miller: The human brain starts to deteriorate irreversibly after the age of thirty.
- Dave: Where did you hear that?
- Lisa Miller: I don't remember... See? See?
- Girl: Whatcha looking at?
- Lisa Miller: Just a list of vocabulary words.
- Girl: You should relax. The SAT's not such a big deal.
- Lisa Miller: Well, maybe not - but you better pretend it is, or else you won't get a good score, which means you can't get into a good college, and then you won't get a good job, and then your life will be ruined.
- Girl: [crestfallen]
- Lisa Miller: Oh - oh, I'm sorry. I - I - I mean, maybe if you have a lot of good extra-curriculars, it will be...
- Girl: Can I have a cigarette?
- Lisa Miller: Yes! Here!
- Lisa Miller: I have decided to retake the SAT.
- Dave: Good for you! I'm trying out for the drama club.