Animals

Cholo #1, tapping roughly on glass: Heeeey monkey! Oh! Monkey!
Treehugger in sandals with socks, hysterically: Stop it, stop it! Oh my god!
(cholo #2 and #3 snicker and speak Spanish to each other)
Cholo #1: Crazy gringa…needa get laid.
Treehugger: Well, at least I didn't have ten kids by the time I was twenty! Like your mother!

National Zoo
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Meaggoo

Chav, showing off in front of group of underage girls: Yes bruv, you don't even know, there was this duck, yeah, and I snapped its neck, innit! It was swimmin' around with its head loose making stupid noises!
Slightly older chav friend: Breds, you're talking shit, man. Number one, if you snapped a duck's neck it wouldn't still be swimming. B, I was there, remember, that fucking duck bit you on the hand, bruv and you screamed like a woman and ran away.

Cambridgeshire
England

Overheard by: Tim C

Biology professor, on earthworm digestive systems: And I’m including this part because I enjoy saying words like “anus”.

South Dakota State University
South Dakota

Teen #1: Why didn't you send it to me?
Teen #2: I don't know. I sent you the humping cats.

Harrison, Michigan

Overheard by: Lauren

Girl, after US history exam: How did you do on the essays?
Serious boy: Well, I drew hand turkeys on three pages of the answer booklet, and on the fourth I drew a picture of Samuel Glompers riding a tortoise while holding a marble cake.

High School Gymnasium
West Palm Beach, Florida

Girl on phone: I got two pairs of pants, a shirt, and I almost bought a beaver.

Boone, North Carolina

Random guy: It's like I'm on the Pony Express or something…and I'm the pony!

Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Little Girl: Look Dad, a buhraff.
Dad: That's “giraffe”–juh, juh, juh.
Little Girl, looking confused: Buhraff! Juh, juh, juh.

Zoo
St. Louis, Missouri

Bubblehead: Well, it’s inhumane. I don’t think they should keep them in cages… The, you know, what-do-they-call-em… kinky Jews.
Frat boy: Dumbass, they’re kinkajous. It’s a small, monkey-like animal, not a person.
Bubblehead: Oh. That’s different, then.

http://overheardinphilly.blogspot.com/2007/03/let-them-control-world-or-theyll-throw.html

Overheard by: crankyprof

Gay boy: … And I woke up and my room was filled with red buttons and ears of corn, then my comforter turned into a giant lake, and three purple rhinoceroses just like rose out of it! And–
Girlfriend #1: No, Christian, there is no such thing as rhinoceroses. The plural of “rhinoceros” is “rhinocerii”.
Girlfriend #2: Stacy… I don’t think that’s right… I think it may be “rhinos-“
Girlfriend #1: Courtney, that’s ridiculous, we’re being serious here…
Gay boy: Okay, guys! It doesn’t matter. Anyway, back to the story… The weirdest part is, after all that happened, I thought I liked girls…
Girlfriend #1 and girlfriend #2: Wow… That is strange…

Huntington Movie Theater
Long Island, New York

Overheard by: Mo