Contributed by Daniel Heath

Overheard in a restaurant in Berkeley, Calif.:

“So there was this guy, and he’s got this big lizard, and he puts it on his head, and he tells me that if I want, I can put the lizard on my head, and he’ll take a picture of me. But I’d just arrived, I’d just taken the plane and the water taxi, and I don’t want to be hustled. So I said, ‘No.’ I think the guy was kinda disappointed.”