Hippie chick on cell: … So then I realized that’s just how she is and I need to honor that.
Guy passerby: Just get it over with and call her a bitch already!

San Francisco, California

Overheard by: melissa

American tween boy, about show tune blaring through iPod earphones: I can play this on my armpit.

Heathrow Airport
London
England

Woman #1: I think my new cat is different.
Woman #2: What do you mean by different?
Woman #1: I’m pretty sure he’s metro-sexual, because he meows like a girl.
Woman #2: It could be worse.
Woman #1: Well, I don’t know — I’m fairly sure he has abandonment issues, too.

http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com/2007/06/her_issues_are_much_more_alarm.html

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Tired suit #1: I think my mail guy is dead.
Tired suit #2: Yeah?
Tired suit #1: Yeah. I remember he was kinda sick and he was always drunk. Then he just stopped showing up.

Union Station
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Lauren

Hot girl: It’s great to go out with new people. My friends and I are in a conversation slump — we realized that all our conversations ended up in stories about drugs or sex, so we said, ‘Let’s be normal, you know, and talk about women and football!’ So we ended up talking about all the transvestites we know and about synchronized swimming.

Bar 13
São Paulo
Brazil

Mom: Do you remember what the name of this river is, Billy?
Son: Is it the Platonic River?

Washington, DC

Overheard by: Keith

Girl on phone with boyfriend: I’m in such a bad mood, I don’t even know! When I get home, you better not have a smile on your face or I will slap yo’ ass. Misery loves company up in here, bitch!

Williamsburg, Virginia

Overheard by: C. Barreto

Guy: Dude, I’ll hook you up. My wife is hot, but her friends are hotter.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Boy #1: I’d never want to be a gynecologist. You’d get so sick of that you’d never want to see one.
Boy #2: Gynos put Vicks under their nose so they don’t have to smell it all day.
Boy #3: You are both nasty.
Boy #4: Stop this conversation. My mom is is the next room.

New Jersey

Hipster: Anal leakage is never funny.

Charleston, South Carolina

Overheard by: Katie