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Little girl to mom: This ice cream is screwing with my mind.
McDonald's
Dayton, Ohio
Overheard by: heather
Customer: My therapist wants me to start thinking of men as friends. Seriously though, if you can't fuck'em, what's the point?
Espresso Drive Thru
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: The Barista Who Loves Her Job
Girl: Seriously, she's completely obsessed. Like all of her final drawings were of his penis. Like all of them.
Roanoke, Virginia
Overheard by: Abbie
Mother, to three-year old in stroller: Oh, ha ha ha! You're retarded.
Paducah, Kentucky
Student: What are you eating?
Teacher: My bracelet... it's made of anti-depressants.
Tucson, Arizona
Student: I have this irrational fear of being clunked over the head and shipped to a country whose alphabet I don't know, so I'm trying to learn all these alphabets... I must be paranoid, I don't know.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: l_tau
Philosophy professor, proving his argument: Therefore, if I don't get a little crazy, then I'm never gonna survive.
Michigan State University
Michigan
Overheard by: sjshock
Middle aged woman to another: It's not the hot flashes that are so bad... It's the depression.
BeauJo's
Ft. Collins, Colorado
Overheard by: always listening
College girl: Remember that girl who admitted to stealing my clothes from the laundry room?
Friend: Yeah?
College girl: Well, she finally gave me my clothes back at the end of the semester before she mysteriously disappeared. I was like going through them and I found not just my clothes, but like other people's clothes too. Not just girls either. I found tighty-whities and shit. But the weirdest part was at the bottom of the basket. There was a plastic bag of jewelry ranging from like cheapo rhinestone shit to like semiprecious stones, a tv remote with no batteries, a crazy-straw, some masking tape, an empty lipstick tube thing, and a handful of Canadian money.
Newark, New Jersey
Dude: I may be bipolar, but she's fucking crazy!
650 NE Holladay Street
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Too Many Papercuts
Guy: Come on! He's only a little retarded.
Chick: I'm not going to sleep with him. Ever!
Shout-out: overheardinthevalley.blogspot.com
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British woman: Ah, look, Dede's eating a piece of paper.
American woman: I caught her eating a crayon today.
British woman: The other day she ate a piece of chalk during class. She'll basically eat anything you give to her.
Volta School for the Mentally Handicapped
Gbi Kpendu, Volta Region
Ghana, West Africa
Evidence prof, about hearsay exceptions: When Lebron James makes a three at the end of a game, is it a statement? He's not actually saying anything. Actually, often when I go to games there is a woman with Downs Syndrome who sits behind me. She's a lovely woman... She thinks the players are talking to her.
Shout-out: overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com