Advice

Math professor: Coming home drunk at 3 am and grading calculus papers is a great way to learn calculus.

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

Female gallery worker: There is some concern about how much food you've eaten.
Homeless bum: One cupcake!?

San Francisco, California

Overheard by: Jon

Airplane pilot: And just for sanitary reasons, please change your babies diapers in the bathroom, not on the pullout table in front of you, because people might stare.

Airport
Tampa, Florida

Overheard by: nicole

Woman on library's computer to son: Get away from the books and sign up for a computer. That's the only way you're goin' to learn!

Hawthorne Library
Hawthorne, California

Overheard by: Scott A. Willis

Driver to people leaving the bus at the university: Buh-bye, have a great day, kids. Enjoy your lessons…bye now. Do your homework. Work hard on your exams so you don't become a bus driver! Bye-bye, everyone!

56 Bus
Leeds
England

Literacy lecturer with thick Russian accent: When you have a guest, you say to them “feel yourself at home.”

Monash University
Australia

Woman on cell: Make sure you put it in a baggie so it doesn't get cooties everywhere. You know.

Back Bay Station
Boston, Massachusetts

Female passerby: Unless you can see an arm dangling out of her vagina, you should never ask a woman if she's pregnant!

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Overheard by: Renizzle

Father: I read a report where they have linked promiscuity to Alzheimer's.
20-something daughter: Don't be jealous, dad.

Sydney
Australia

Tour guide: Be sure to stay with the group. The rats are very large and can sense weakness within the herd. (gives hard look to four old women)

Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Julia