How do you get your story ideas?

I imagine every writer hears that question from time to time. It makes me shudder. Oh, no. How do I answer that? Tell her I dream them sometimes, say that it's just the way my crazy mind works, or lie and say I get them from the news? There's no simple answer. So, here's a few of my convoluted but honest ones.

1) I was daydreaming about this sinfully delicious desert my friend makes called Death by Chocolate. As I'm rubbing my tummy and thinking mmmmm... my eyes land on a book by Delilah Devlin. Thus "Death by Delilah" popped into my head as a title and a Halloween story followed.

2) Another friend was sharing her bad day with me. She was enjoying a fair, just walking along, happily chatting with her mother when suddenly, wham, she fell in a hole and twisted her ankle. Her mortification was tripled when the ambulance showed up carrying a hot EMT. After chuckling about my friend being "top-heavy" my book Heaving Bosoms was born.

3) About a week ago on a writers' loop, I was bemoaning my need to write a love scene when I wasn't in the mood. I just could get into it. Other writers shared their "tricks of the trade" and offered me a whole arsenal of mood changing advice. Yet another writer was lurking and told us all a few days later she had found a story idea out of our conversation! Should be a humginger! LOL.