The exercise for next week is to write a scene where a couple is eating dinner at home and talking about their new next-door neighbors' weird possessions.
The Tuesday afternoon chat was going well, and we agreed amongst ourselves to have an informal writing exercise every week. Chatters are free to participate or not, and to ask for critique or not.
The criteria for the exercise are posted and pinned in the chat room. Chatters are encouraged to ...
The quotation marks being up against each other like that. I'd prefer to have each person's dialog on a separate line.
David asked Bob “Hey, have you tried the new dorritos tacos at taco bell?” Bob replied, saying “No man, I don’t eat taco bell anymore, ever since that… incident.”
Either find speaking verbs that express your concept or just chop them out. You don't need them. Your characters are expressing their attitudes just fine.