Freshman, before 8 am final: My internal alarm clock was like, "Dude, I didn't fucking go off!"
Burlington, Vermont
Drunk girl #1: That's the first men's bathroom I've ever been in that didn't have porn mags!
Drunk girl #2: Not ones that you could see!
Lincoln, Nebraska
Guy: If someone was legally blind, it would be really hard for them to see in here.
Revenge of the Mummy ride, Universal Studios
Orlando, Florida
Mom passing rows of whole fish: When I was a little girl, I used to poke their raw eyeballs with my finger!
Little boy: Wow!
Pike Market
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: wow indeed
Guy to friend: Do you have a reason to riverdance on my testicles?
Boone, North Carolina
Professor: Then the electrons are passed around like a hot potato or, you know, a cheerleader.
Radford University, Virginia
Woman holding long sweater: Excuse me, do you work here?
Employee: Yes.
Woman: What is this? Is this a dress?
Employee: It's one of those... long... sweaters...
H&M, Water Tower Place
Chicago, Illinois
Indian professor with thick accent: Okay class. If I flip this coin 50 times, what is the probability that I get head?
Dude in the back: Man, I could flip a coin 100 times and I'm still not gettin' head.
(class bursts into hysterical laughter)
Indian professor: What? What did I say?
Statistics Class, George Washington University
Washington, DC
Man on cell: Hey man! Sorry I couldn't make it, I've got tons of widows waiting on me!
Eccles Tennis center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Brittni
Energetic little boy: Can I punch him?
Harassed mom: You can punch him later.
Lake Arrowhead, California
Galveston woman: I swear, when I first met Sheila 20 years ago she looked middle-aged. She still looks middle-aged.
Guest from California: Maybe she discovered the fountain of middle age.
Galveston, Texas
Overheard by: Chas
Mother admonishing her child for sticking his head through the bars in a fence: You do not put your head through anything. Ever.
Disney World
Florida
Overheard by: Becca
Woman: How old is that bible?
Clerk (picking it up): 1911.
Woman: Thats the first one?
Clerk: First what?
Woman: First bible.
Clerk: (astonished silence)
Resale Shop
Hammond, Indiana
Conductor: Next and final stop: Atlantic City, folks!
(several passengers give confused and bewildered looks)
Conductor: Yeah, I changed my mind. I don't like Trenton.
Trenton, New Jersey
Overheard by: passenger
Professor: All the crazies kept moving from the East Coast to the west until they hit California. Some moved back to Oklahoma, but the rest of us just hope there's an earthquake and California floats off into the Mediterranean to become a homeland for Palestinians.
Carroll College
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Overheard by: Abbey
Teen son: I really want to read a book, I don't know why.
Mother: No, it's such a waste of money.
Target
Voorhees, New Jersey
Overheard by: deno
Drunk: Two of my three girlfriends just dumped me. I'm looking for replacements.
Cute blonde: Do you like beer?
Drunk: Yes.
Cute blonde: In your face?
Carlton
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: itookherhome
(math test is interrupted by a loud construction drill in the next room).
Student: Oh my god, I can't take this test anymore! Can you tell them to stop, please?!
Teacher: Heh... At least there aren't bullets flying over your head.
Concord High School
California
Overheard by: When I was in Vietnam
(outside of a coffee shop downtown late at night)
Hipster chick: So then I went to the store and found out the shoes were discontinued but...
Creepy guy (with unzipped and unbuttoned pants): What are you guys talking about? Can I talk or are you going to kick me out?
Hipster chick: Uh... (looks around for a quick exit) No man, you can stay. We're talking about shoes.
Creepy guy: You're so hot. No, really. I would kiss you like you'd never think about shoes again.
Akron, Ohio
Overheard by: Julia M
Friend #1: I totally agree about simple dates. I think a great date would be for me and a guy to just ride a concubine together.
(pause)
Friend #2: You mean a "combine"?
Kansas City, Missouri
Drunk man to woman passing by: Fornication is evil! Thou shalt be kind to your neighbours!
Woman: Yeah, well, god built the Nevada desert and the Colorado River and then we came and built the Hoover Dam, leaving people without water or resources. So just by being here we're fucking over our neigbours.
Drunk man: Can I kiss you?
Outside The Flamingo
Las Vegas, Nevada
Overheard by: Steph
Teen girl #1: Remember when you were Jesus and I was Satan?
Teen girl #2: Yeah.
Upper Hutt
New Zealand
Overheard by: Schmitty
Metro announcement: The Red Line is experiencing delays due to a sick customer at Farragut North... Trains will share tracks at Gallery Place and Metro Center.
Man on metro: How sick was this customer?
Woman on metro: She better be dead, I'll tell you that.
Washington, DC
Overheard by: jposkin
Middle school guy #1: Dude, look at Raymond and tell me he doesn't look like my dad's girlfriend.
Middle school guy #2: What? No way!
Middle school guy #1: It's true. She looks just like Raymond, except she has a woman's body.
Coal Hill, Arkansas
(goth girl walks by two high school girls)
Girl #1: What is that?!
Girl #2: She's a goth.
Girl #1: Whats a goth?
Girl #2: You know, people who wear black and lots of makeup and listen to sad music.
Girl #1: Ohhhh, that's what they're called. I just call them people who need Jesus.
Albany, New York
Father shouting out of house: Jacinta! Get off that cow! You'll ruin your communion dress!
Limerick
Ireland
Possibly gay barista: Caramel.
Trailer park barista: Car-mel.
Possibly gay barista: Car-a-mel.
Trailer park barista: That used to drive me nuts when I used to work here.
Robot Lodge, Wisconsin
Overheard by: Coffee Lurker
Slutty chick: STDs!
Sluttier chick: I don't need one.
Slutty chick: STDs!
Sluttier chick: I'm on my period, yo!
University of Connecticut
Overheard by: Unwilling Audience
(on a bus passing city jail)
Mom: Look kids... that's where daddy is.
(pause)
Mom: I can give you a haircut.
Man: I like the lady who does my hair, she has good mirrors so I can see the back of my head.
Mom: I've got good mirrors. I've got mirrors on the ceiling, too.
Bus
Omaha, Nebraska
Guy on phone: Does she move when you have sex with her? Maybe that's the problem.
University Park, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Bill
Professor: We think imperfectly. If you think you think perfectly... well, just talk to god.
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Girl: Oh, and guess what else happened?
Boyfriend: What?
Girl: I got my period again! What the hell?!
Eaton Centre, Toronto
Ontario
Canadia
Professor: I make no sense to myself, I'm surprised I know my own name. Why? Because life sucks. But I have a nice jacket!
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, Virginia
Mom standing outside of bathroom stall: Honey, hurry up, there is a line waiting.
Four-year-old girl: I can't, my body requires me to go slow.
Capitol Building Bathroom
Washington, DC
Girl, to two guys smoking in a bar: Oh my gosh! Smoking? Gross! (walks away, disgusted)
Guy #1: You wanna follow her and smoke?
Guy #2: Hell yeah, I do.
Denver, Colorado
Woman to man carrying giant innertube: You have to return that to the tube hut. Ha! You have a tube hut in your pants!
Man: I don't even know what that means.
Swimming Pool
Gardner, Kansas
Chick #1: But everyone was happy. It was a happy funeral.
Chick #2: Wow, your grandma must have been a real bitch.
High School Classroom
Englewood, Colorado
Waitress: What kind of dressing would you like on your salad? We have French, Thousand Island and Italian.
Gorgeous blond: I'll have Ranch.
Waitress: No.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Dude: Cool, you were in Asia... How was it?
Chick: The tsunami was the best thing for Thailand, everything was so clean and pretty afterwards.
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadia
Overheard by: Sean_G
Spacey English major: So... he's a queer writer, right?
Surprised teaching assistant: No. He's just Jewish American.
Spacey English major: Oh, same thing.
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Jessica
Boy: We could have the clones test nuclear bombs!
Girl: They're not robots. They're real people.
Boy: So? They still blow up.
Seattle, Washington
Pharmacy assistant holding phone to pharmacist: This guy on the phone found some prescription bottles in a drawer and wants to know what they are. Can you talk to him?
Pharmacist: Did he eat them already?
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: mmm....mystery pills
Teenage girl: God is in every queef.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Professor: "Annihilation." I love this word. You will see it again.
Arcadia University
Glenside, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: disturbed student
Guy: Leggings are fucking up everything. I used to know when it was winter because girls would stop wearing skirts, but now thanks to leggings they can wear them all year. It's bullshit.
Connecticut College
Angry traveler: The flight's canceled because of weather?!? Can't you do something?
Airline counter man: Ma'am, despite my godlike appearance, I cannot control the weather.
O'Hare Airport
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: He's not so Godlike
Little girl: I learned how to make a man!
Mom: A man?!
Little girl: Yes!
Mom: Did you learn that in school?
Little girl: Yes.
Mom: Can you make one for me?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Mollena
Girl to friend: Well, I woke up naked, again, with a quesadilla in my bed, again, so I say it was a pretty average night.
Eclipse de Sol Restaurant
Atlanta, Georgia
Old woman to granddaughter: I saw her the other day, and all the fat from her face has slipped down to her boobs.
Piccadilly Circus
London
England
Overheard by: lola
Girl to boyfriend: Like, I think it has more to do with you being on crack more than anything.
Baker Library
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Overheard by: you think?
Hobo woman: So if you stand with one foot on Venus, and one on Mars, it is possible to move earth with a hockey stick.
Eriberto's
Phoenix, Arizona
Overheard by: Drew
Guy: So, you can talk about stabbing puppies but I can't talk about punting babies? That doesn't seem right.
Girl: That's exactly right.
Rutgers Stadium, New Jersey
Girl: Hey, what about that time we went duck hunting naked and...
Random passerby: That sounds like fun!
Georgetown
Washington, DC
Haughty woman: Oh yeah, he's getting a divorce.
Friend: Why?
Haughty woman: She stalks him ever since he left. She followed him into Walgreens and tried to beat him down with a toilet scrubber!
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: I would want a divorce too...
Dude: Just because you masturbate to llama/turtle porn...
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Overheard by: Russ
Guy #1: What's the big deal about the bird flu anyway? I'm not a bird.
Guy #2: It's those people who play with bird crap and such. It's kinda like the chicken pox, see what I mean?
Guy #1: Well, I'm fine then because I already had the chicken pox.
Reno, Nevada
Overheard by: Scott
Mom, yelling to small boy as he wanders towards street performer: Fine, if that's what you want, get stolen!
Ottawa
Canadia
Middle-aged matronly looking woman: Well, while we're here I can get some of this stocking stuffer shit.
Walgreens
Chicago, Illinois
Dude leaving party: Just remember we have one goal. We have one shared dream, people. It starts with "I" and ends with "no more motherfucking apartheid."
Kalamazoo, Michigan
College girl #1: You laugh a lot during sex, then?
College girl #2: I think you have to laugh during sex. Otherwise it's too solemn. I mean, sex is like: "Oh yeah, oh yeah, queef."
Chinese Restaurant
Columbus, Mississippi
Overheard by: Megan S.
Pilot: And if you have any comments or questions, go ahead and look me up on Facebook.
Vancouver
Canadia
Popcorn hater: Oh my god! You're going to walk out of there with a popcorn-bag fashioned diaper, aren't you?
Popcorn enthusiast: It's supportive and delicious!
Tempe, Arizona
Overheard by: Meghan
Guy: Sometimes I feel like I want to get a steady girlfriend again.
Friend: Whenever I feel like that I just jerk off all over myself and the feeling goes away.
Downtown Post Office
Worcester, Massachusetts
Professor: I mean, what's with getting to know them? What about: You see someone, you don't even talk, you penetrate them.
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Girl (about her college): The on-campus security is really good too, the campus police will get to you in like, 30 seconds. I'm still thinking about getting mace or something.
Girl's younger brother: No one wants to rape you.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Quazarfreez
Prudish-looking woman #1: It's a bra conspiracy.
Prudish-looking woman #2: I agree.
Coles Supermarket
Melbourne
Australia
Suit to other: Then he kept trying to sell me this little boy for a dollar...
Taco Bell
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: Brandon
Guy on cell: I told you... the orange ones are hermaphroditic and the purple ones are sterile.
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: piruqsiviliriji
Gay friend: I wish him the best in all his endeavors, and whatever his life is like now... But I hope he gets shot when he comes out here to Mardi Gras.
San Diego, California
Guy: Do you spit or swallow?
Preppy girl: I don't know. I just chew.
Florida
Train conductor: Thank you for traveling on this 3:30 service to Southern Cross. If you need to use the toilet, they are located at the end of each carriage for your convenience. Please remember to both close and lock the door, which will save you from embarrassment and other passengers from blindness.
Train Service to Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: Meg
Woman: You should never kill people, especially if you're poor!
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canadia
Overheard by: there goes my plan
Loud, fat american teen: I have to take the biggest leak ever. Pause. And then I want to check out those hedgehogs.
Market in Freiburg, Germany
Little boy waiting in line with his mom: Mommy, have you ever been ripped apart?
Lane Bryant
St Cloud, Minnesota
Overheard by: Jesi
Older woman: My first computer was a Commodore 64!
Younger woman: A what? That sounds like a sex toy.
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Guy #1: You're beautiful... you're beautiful.
Guy #2: No... but I'm not fuckable beautiful!
University of California, San Diego
Overheard by: whoa mango
Professor: [the guest speaker] apologized for being so hard on you guys. Although she was kinda drunk when she did...
Student: That kinda compromises her honor.
Professor: Oh, trust me, her honor was compromised long before that.
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York
(two girls exit bathroom stall together)
Girl #1: It was such a pleasure watching you. It was bliss.
Elbo Room Bar
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: crafty biotech
Very serious little boy: I don't think a moose and a human should kiss.
Library
Chicago Suburbs, Illinois
Little boy: This is boring!
Mom: You know what? Life is boring if you make it that way.
Katonah Train Station
New York City, New York
Overheard by: lisa
Six-year-old #1: Did you know that we've kissed before and we're not even family?
Six-year-old #2: Yeah, in a hot tub!
Casselman
Ontario
Canadia
Chick #1: The problem with buying a house seized by the police? Someone could have been murdered there.
Chick #2: That's not a problem, that's a bonus!
Aurora, Colorado
Girl with fake sword to group of fifty kids with fake swords (prepping them before their war in the park): Today is not about living, today is about dying. You will die at least 100 times today. And you will love it!
Clark Park
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: afraid of kids
(two college girls walking down M Street towards Georgetown)
Girl #1: You look cute. I like your dress.
Girl #2: Yeah...I didn't shower.
Shout-out: eavesdropdc.blogspot.com
Overheard by:
Drunk guy: It's my birthday and I wanna hear some boobs clapping!
Davis, California
Overheard by: Liz
Cashier (handing over receipt): Would you like this?
Customer: No, they make babies in my purse...
David's Supermarket
Whitney, Texas
Guy: Well, do you have lots of unprotected sex with anonymous men?
Girl: I don't think so.
Guy: (pause) Well, you're probably safe then.
Southern Oregon University
Overheard by: Kayli
Ghetto chick screaming at other: Do you deserve your ovaries? I parked your car for you, bitch!
Porter Square
Somerville, Massachusetts
Overheard by: well, do you?
Gucci girl to friends: God! I'm so tired of my Nazi book group! (silence) I mean, they don't want cookies, they don't want to socialize, it's just like, book book book you may not mention anything besides the book!
Glencoe, Illinois
Overheard by: I was worried for a minute
Guy to girlfriend: Okay! I promise I won't talk about the smell of your vagina ever again.
Boston, Massachusetts
20-something chick to friend: If I have to strip him down and put him on top of you myself, I will. *Now* it's a bet!
Mercado, Washington, DC
Overheard by: Ladle
Girl #1: Ask me what flavor my scarf is.
Girl #2: What flavor is your scarf?
Girl #1: Beef noodle!
New Zealand
Overheard by: Schmitty
Girl #1: I bet she has scabies.
Girl #2: Yeah, probably.
Girl #1: Actually, I'm not sure I know what scabies is.
Girl #2: Well, if you can get it from a lizard she probably has it.
Illinois
Overheard by: Claire
Student: Hi professor, we need some help with our regressions.
Professor, cutting her off: Enough about you. I got a new dog yesterday, look I have a picture!
Student: Uhh... He's cute?
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Man to woman: When was the last time you waxed your saddle?
Caltrain, San Francisco to Palo Alto
Overheard by: Sarks
Middle-aged woman to another: I said, "Let's go to church," and she said, "No, I'm going to stay in bed with Jesus today."
Outside Mexican restaurant
Hammond, Louisiana
Overheard by: Booksie in Bumfuck
Tipsy chick: Why is she wearing a bra-top to Alcatraz?
The Big Hunt Bar
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Ladle
Harried mom: Get off the stage now! It's time to go!
Obstinate toddler: No!
Harried mom: Who's the boss of you?
Obstinate toddler: ...you.
Harried mom: And who's the boss of me?
Obstinate toddler: Daddy!
Harried mom: No!
Barnes & Noble
Plantation, Florida
Overheard by: That Bookseller Chick
Random board gamer: Settlers of Catan was created in the bowels of hell to make otherwise intelligent people say: "I have wood for sheep."
Epoch Coffee
Austin, Texas
Girl: Who are you dating now?
Guy: I don't know if you'd call it dating, but I met a stripper that comes over around midnight, gets me high, sucks my dick, we fuck, I fall asleep and when I wake up, she's gone.
Random eavesdropper: Dude, marry that bitch!
Open Bar
San Diego, California
Dude: You have a sister, right?
Chick: Yeah.
Dude: Is she hot?
Chick: She's 12 and shaped like a rectangle.
Dude: That doesn't answer my question.
High School Classroom
Englewood, Colorado
Overheard by: Julia
Half-drunk tourist girl: You're lying! Nobody has all that happen in their life!
Half-drunk guy with NY accent: I'm from Brooklyn! We all live unbelievable lives!
Parker House Bar
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: annikee
Loud girl #1: I totally don't sweat at all.
Loud girl #2: Really? I don't believe you. Let me feel your vagina.
BART
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: MW
Six-year-old: Piss piss pissy piss piss.
Unconcerned mother: Oh, look here's the Crayola aisle!
Michael's
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
High school student #1: My finger hurts.
High school student #2 (absent mindedly): Yeah, my ass hurts too.
Prishtina
Kosovo
Overheard by: Curly
Tall chick: I wish I could find a nice, tall guy.
Friend #1: My brother is 6'5".
Tall chick: Is he cute?
Friend: Well...
Friend #2: He looks like a Mexican pedophile.
Tall chick: 6'5", eh? I'll think about it.
High School Classroom
Englewood, Colorado
Early 20-something woman on cell with boyfriend: I would love to dress you up as yogurt!
Potomac, Maryland
Overheard by: Nic
Dumb girl: So what's the difference between when the guy hits the ball and someone catches it and when someone hits the ball and no one catches it?
Boy: Absolutely nothing.
PETCO Park
San Diego, California
(little boy and mother pass bake sale)
Little boy: I wanna cookie! I wanna cookie! Can we please get a cookie?
Mother: You don't want those cookies.
Little boy: What's wrong with them?
Mother: Those are Democrat cookies.
Bake Sale for Obama Campaign
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Jamie
Pre-school teacher #1: Which kids do you want in your group today?
Pre-school teacher #2: Oh, I don't really care. Just not Monica*. I cant stand her.
Pre-school teacher #1: Yeah, I know. It's like it's her period every friggin' day!
Pre-school teacher #2: Yeah, she's such a little frigid bitch!
New York City, New York
Overheard by: first day on the job
Professor, during a discussion about Lear's daughters in King Lear: well, don't you guys ever lie?
(class stays silent)
Professor: You all lie, especially the girls.
Carleton University
Ottawa
Canadia
20-something guy with ridiculous hair cut: Like, I'm not saying that mother earth isn't my priority, because like she totally is, I'm just saying that I'm not going to like let her run my life. At the end of the day.
8th & Chestnut
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Disgruntled dad-to-be: I wish I could sue the urologist, but it is what it is. So now I'm having a son. Whatever.
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Glad he's not my Dad
Girl to friends: I'm 31 years old, for Christ's sake. My mom doesn't get it. I'm too fucking old to get excited about some guy that pisses himself, calls me up and acts like it's a fucking achievement.
Bar
Atlanta, Georgia
Guy trying to impress girl: So then I mastered a few languages, and after that it was pretty easy to get hired.
Girl: Oh wow! What languages?
Guy: C++.
Yellow Line Train
Washington, DC
Girl: I really don't know why I have such an unhealthy obsession with lesbians.
Bakersfield, California
Teacher: I'm leaving for a few minutes. Ted*, you're in charge.
Ted*: Alright, everyone get naked.
High School Classroom
Englewood, Colorado
Dude #1: I heard they were trying to get The Beach Boys for that motorcycle rally.
Dude #2: Man, that really says a lot about who is riding motorcycles these days. And it's not good.
Lone Star Floathouse & Grill
New Braunfels, Texas
Overheard by: D2
Customer: Do you have any tea that's like coffee only it isn't caffeinated like coffee... But it tastes like coffee?
Barista: Uh, you mean decaf coffee?
Customer: Yes! That's exactly what I want. I'll have a decaf coffee.
Red Brick Coffee Pub
Guelph
Ontario, Canadia
Guy going to study for finals: I'm kinda scared to sit in a cubicle alone... by myself... Alone with my thoughts. Not good.
PCL Library
University of Texas at Austin
Woman: ...and Scarlett Johansson is in it.
Husband: Really? Okay, let's go.
Woman (to ticket seller): Oh, now he'll watch it.
(they enter the theater)
Husband: And you said sex too, right?
Movie Theater
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Guy walking opposite traffic on a one-way street: If I get hit by another car my mom will be pissed.
Clemson, South Carolina
Literature teacher: So what the Europeans did was take the description of Jesus from the texts and made their images of him Caucasian so as to be more relatable to those they were teaching to.
Girl of questionable literacy: European Jesus was hot.
Delta Secondary School
Ladner, British Columbia
Canadia
Roommate #1 (about cat): Is she puking or is that butt licking?
Roommate #2: Butt licking.
Roommate #1: Good.
Champaign, Illinois
Overheard by: not enjoying either idea
College student to friend: Scott* is so funny. Like, last night, he was looking at his penis...
University of Delaware
(five-year-old girl tries to hit puppy with a toy)
Step-mom: I'm gonna hit you with that toy.
Five-year-old girl: How hard?
Fresno, California
Little girl in bathroom stall with mother: Doody! It's fun to say "doody" in the bathroom! Say "doody," mom!
Whole Foods
West Orange, New Jersey
Overheard by: I almost said it myself.
Hippie using his pocket PC: It's very primitive -I use it for solitaire while pooping.
Bean & Leaf Coffee Shop
New London, Connecticut
Overheard by: Overand
Middle aged redneck to cute four-year-old girl: You're just as sharp as your great granddaddy! You're gonna grow up to write about public restrooms in America!
Gas Station
Waco, Texas
Puzzled teen: I swear I've never seen so much math on a napkin before.
Women's Bathroom, Wynkoop Brewery
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: Bathroom Goer
Student: I'm as much like Hitler as Hitler was.
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana
Overheard by: Kat
20-something girl to friends: And I was like, he was my first ugly boyfriend and my first kiss, and I was like "grandma!"
Maxwell's
Cedarburg, Wisconsin
Overheard by: and i was like, what?!
Guy: That motherfucking cop has driven past here twice in the last fifteen minutes.
Cop (on car's loudspeaker): I'm not a motherfucker.
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Overheard by: Anne
Professor: And you go home and watch something dumb on TV, like that Tila Tequila show with the lesbians and the guys... I don't understand who would want to date her anyway, she looks like a disease on legs.
Harbor College, California
Three-year-old boy, pulling action figure out of a box of toys, whispering: I love you, He-Man. (louder) I love you, He-Man! (at the top of his little lungs) I love you, He-Man!
Monarc Thrift Shop
Red Bank, New Jersey
Overheard by: klutch
Skanky girl walking down hall to friends: She told me to put my cigarette out... I put it in my bra.
Asher Alternative High School
Detroit, Michigan
Guy: I'm pretty positive that on judgment day, god is going to have a live action replay of this conversation and be like: "See... And you were so close!"
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Guy, mournfully: And then I go in and Colin is sitting there, taking shots of vodka by himself, in that pink dress...
Girl, nonplussed: Again?
Newark, Delaware
Overheard by: archie
Teen girl #1: Hey, you know the chubby girl in chorus, right?
Teen girl #2: Elizabeth?
Teen girl #1: No, I'm talking about the whale.
(teen girl #1 makes elephant noises)
Teen girl #2: The one that laughs like a jackal?
Teen girl #1: Yeah, her!
Teen girl #2: Oh my god, I love her.
Teen girl #1: Me too! She's great...
Tallahassee, Florida
Overheard by: Drama Eavesdropper
Grocery store bagger (handing stuffed cat to little girl): So, what are you going to name your new kitty?
Little girl: Baby Jesus!
California
Dad: What do you want for dinner?
Toddler #1: Shit!
Dad: Uh, you can't say that...
Toddler #2: Shit!
Toddler #1: Shit!
Toddler #2: Shit!
Toddler #1: Shit!
Dad: Uh...
Grocery Store
Maryland
Girl #1: Yeah, Dave*'s cute. Not super-attractive, but I'd sleep with him.
Girl #2: I wouldn't.
Girl #1: Why not?
Girl #2: I made a pact with myself that I would never date him.
Girl #1: Yeah, but did you say you wouldn't sleep with him?
Girl #2: No, I guess not.
Girl #1: So there's, like, a loophole. You can sleep with him, just don't date him.
Girl #2: Yeah, I guess so. Cool.
Girl #1: God, I'm so smart.
Valencia Community College
Orlando, Florida
Girl running up stairs: I ran three miles yesterday!
Boy out of breath: I'm wearing pants.
Boyertown High School, Pennsylvania
Girl: I thought dinosaurs were a fairy tale.
Junior High Science Class
El Paso, Texas
Genius cashier: Did they decide on a President yet? You know, the President thing?
North Andover, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Wrote it on my receipt so I wouldn't forget
Old lady to friend: I've been praying for the strength to be friendly with Nicole*, but she makes it so difficult! Goddamit, I am going to heaven, so either she has to shape up soon or I have to try not to die!
San Jose, California
(two guys peeing next to each other at the urinals)
Pretty boy #1: I think I have sensitive wrists.
Pretty boy #2: You have sensitive nipples!
Bowling Alley Bathroom
Dayton, Ohio
Overheard by: Liz
(a couple at the checkout counter buying nylons)
Girl: I'm really excited for these tights.
Guy (excessively excited): Me too!
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canadia
White, middle aged music professor: I don't do sevenths. Homie don't play that.
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Bespectacled, be-hatted, be-flanneled guy to friend: It's like Seattle without the heroin, New York without the coke. All bets are off. People are drunk 24/7.
Channing and Ellsworth
Berkeley, California
Overheard by: Kaitlen, who wishes she knew where they were talking about
Hipster college dude: You mean you had anal?
Hipster college chick: Well, more like mental anal.
Hipster college dude: Mental anal. Hmmm, let me think on that a spell.
UNM Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Overheard by: klutch
Professor: The dew line -by the way, any Rush fans in here?
(three or four raise hands in a class of 200)
Professor: Only three? That's a sad state of affairs.
Canadian History Lecture
University of Toronto
Canadia
Guy (joyous): I want to stay in college forever!
Girl (ecstatic): I want to put in a new tampon!
www.overheardatyale.com
Boyfriend: I only cheated on you with one girl but you cheated on me with three guys... at the same time!
Ohio State University
Overheard by: JooSki
Guy: Yeah, I got disqualified from long jump because my dick fell out.
Track Meet
Broadalbin Perth, New York
Frat boy: Hypothetically speaking, if you were on your period, would you invite a guy to go home with you? Like, if it was your third day and you weren't having a very heavy flow?
Sorority girl: Justin, this doesn't sound very hypothetical.
University of Iowa Library
Iowa City, Iowa
Druggie talking about Italy: There were dicks coming out the walls everywhere!
Maine
Overheard by: abbitt the rabbitt
Girl (reading inspirational quote): "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." (pause) Helen Keller. (to friend) Wasn't she, like, a killer?
Indigo Bookstore
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Sunissa
Woman on cell waiting in line for lunch: Oh, to keep you in the loop, we are not getting pregnant any time soon. There is like no sperm. They said there were eight, but they were retarded.
Richmond, Virginia
Mother holding small child as she sees a girlfriend: Sammi* look! It's Debbie! Say hi to Debbie!
Small child: Hi, ugly man!
Target
Traverse City, Michigan
Woman to friend: You just lift up your shirt, look down, and there it is.
St. Catharine's
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: J Menz
Nerdy teen #1: So you just sort of put your hands down her pants and rub up behind her.
Nerdy teen #2 (nodding): Yeah. I know what you mean.
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: iloveholidays
Loud white ghetto guy on cell: Dude, I'm at Target. They don't got nothing here! Man, I should have gone to Wal-Mart. (pause) Oh, here's a sweet knife. Maybe I'll buy that for shits and giggles.
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: gee, you have to wonder what this guy does with his free time...
Customer (ordering a birthday cake for his wife): Can you put "You're better lookin' than your twin sister" on it?
Alpine Bakery
Concord, California
Mother (giving four-year-old a children's bible): Here, find Jesus for mommy.
Doctor's Office
Ashland, Kentucky
Overheard by: Lola
Religious nut: Go back to the kitchen!
Gay girl #1: We do it in the kitchen!
Gay girl #2: Oh yeah. That's the day we realized our dishwasher had wheels.
Pride Parade
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Overheard by: Cade
Teenage girl #1: He hates me.
Teenage girl #2: He doesn't hate you. Maybe you should just say "hi" to him.
Teenage girl #1: How am I supposed to say "hi"? I have voices in my head saying "I want cheeseburgers"!
Canberra
Australia
Girl: I can't believe you've never seen The Sound of Music. You have to watch that.
Guy: Fuck that. I wouldn't watch that movie if you watched it with me, and we were going to fuck afterward.
Mankato, Minnesota
Loud teen girl on cell: Jaime, I've been calling you! Didn't you feel it in your pants?
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: yikes
Size 4 girl #1: I love H&M but it makes me feel so fat. I have to wear a size 6 or 8 when I shop here.
Size 4 girl #2: Yeah, and that vest makes you look like a lesbian.
H&M
Chicago, Illinois
Young woman #1: You know, Ginger and Craig, with the breadcrumbs and all that.
Young woman #2: You mean Hansel and Gretel!?
Young woman #1: Oh. Yeah, them.
Young woman #2: Wow.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania