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Female friend: I think there are no nude pictures of me... (pause) ...On the internet.
Münster
Germany
Canadian girl #1 to tour operator: Where can we do tours of Auschwitz?
Tour operator: Um, well, Auschwitz is in Poland, so...
Canadian girl #2: No, but we mean the one the Germans set up for the war. The German one.
Tour operator: Yes, I understand, but they set it up in Poland.
Canadian girl #1, after pause: Are you sure? We came to Berlin just to see it.
Berlin
Germany
Overheard by: Jit
American tourist: It's so quaint here. All the pretty houses. It's so romantic.
German host: Uh-huh.
American tourist: What I don't get, though, is why they built it if they don't even charge money for people visiting it.
German host: I think the people living here would feel weird about that.
American woman: Wait, people actually live here??
Regensburg
Germany
Guy to another: Hey, I don't want no trouble. How about you look for a new circus, and I am gonna look for a new clown?
Frankfurt
Germany
Overheard by: Alex Wipf
Guy with cigarette: I have to go home to my girlfriend.
Friend: Just fuck her for ten minutes and then meet me in the bar.
Munich
Germany
Overheard by: How romantic...
Loud girl to boy: Sorry, I didn't listen... You know, I just stared out of the window and for a second thought, "wait a minute, I know that person"--only to realize it was my reflection! Does that happen to you sometimes?
Hamburg
Germany
Overheard by: Staring at my own reflection in disbelief
Fashionable girl to singing man on bicycle: Excuse me, are you mentally ill or just musically inclined?
Düsseldorf
Germany
Overheard by: Anja Schwalm
20-something American guy: Hermaphrodites are real?
20-something American girl: Well, what did you think they were?
20-something American guy: I thought they were a made-up word, like "unicorn" or something.
Bar
Munich
Germany
Scenester: I hate my life!
Random passer-by: You have cool socks, though.
Munich, Germany
Four-year old: But I want to go in there!
Frazzled mother: No! Let's go, we have to get home.
Four-year old (crying): You aren't the right mother for me!
Berlin
Germany
Random girl on date: Sometimes I wonder what life was like before playing cards?
Stuttgart
Germany
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
Middle-aged American tourist woman: The rooms here have strange plugs, I simply cannot use my curling iron! This is outrageous... I want to see the manager immediately!
Hotel Restaurant
Munich
Germany
Overheard by: Dru
American guy: Could you stamp my passport, please? It's a hobby of mine.
Passport checker to coworker, in German: These damn Americans always want something. Look, they've all got booze and bags and t-shirts. Now they want stamps.
American girl: Sir, I'd like mine stamped, too.
Passport checker, in German: I bet that girl was here to fuck guys. American girls become sluts in Europe.
American girl: Sir, that's not very nice!
Passport checker, still in German: I hate it when they know German. Then we can't talk about them!
Airport
Cologne
Germany
Lone woman at bar, to no one: This is not what I call penis enlargement.
Florian bar
Berlin
Germany
Overheard by: And I used to go out with her
Student, discussing artwork: ... And this represents my soul!
Teacher, squinting: Your soul is Batman?
Twelfth grade art class
Frankfurt
Germany
Overheard by: Giggling in the back row