Man: I’m giving up bread for lent.
Woman: Is that because Jesus Christ died for your sins, or because you’re concerned with your figure?
Starbucks
San Diego, California
Overheard by: Maggie
Archive for the ‘Beauty’ Category
The Cautionary Tale That Elizabeth Taylor Has Taught Us All
Girl to friends: I mean, think about it: a girl that’s pretty now could be ugly in ten years.
Crested Butte, Colorado
Overheard by: Wow.
…That Woman Is Fi Fie Foe Fine!
Crew member to friends: Oh, the gay cooks are nothing. I mean, yeah, they can have their feminine touches, but if you want real weird, you need Angela.
Friend: Angela? She sounds nice!
Crew member: She’s head of security. She’s two meters tall, and you need to take a step back before you can identify her as a woman.
Friend: Surely she’s not that ugly?
Crew member: Oh look, there she is.
Friend: Oh my god!
Gent Jazz festival
Belgium
The New Apartheid
Teen girl driving car: I’m turning left because I’m ugly.
New Zealand
Overheard by: passenger
I’d Totally Do That If It’d Make Me Young Again
Middle-aged woman, about teenager: She’s so beautiful. She could be a model. (pause) I want to run her over with my car.
Bellingham, Washington
What Girl Wouldn’t Want a Liquid-Metal Lover?
Chick #1 watching Terminator II: The bad guy in this is so hot…
Chick #2: Totally. In, like, a blond, blue-eyed, Nazi S‑and‑M porn kind of way.
Chick #1: So hot…
Chick #2’s boyfriend: What the fuck is wrong with you two?!
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Let’s Just Say She’s in Shape
Dude: You have a sister, right?
Chick: Yeah.
Dude: Is she hot?
Chick: She’s 12 and shaped like a rectangle.
Dude: That doesn’t answer my question.
High School Classroom
Englewood, Colorado
Overheard by: Julia
That’s for Him to Decide
New dad: Look! These clothes are cute. Oh, look at this dress!
New mum: You have a boy, not a girl!
Department Store
Melbourne
Australia
There’s Just Something about the Sweating and the Open Sores
Girl #1: Oh my god! You should see this guy I met at a party [shows a picture on her computer].
Girl #2: Yeah, he’s pretty good-looking.
Girl #1: I know, he’s so hot. Like, in an ‘I’m mysterious and a recovering drug addict’ sort of way.
http://overheardatwestern.blogspot.com/
Overheard by: laura
Hope You Bitches Saved Me Some Weed
Mom: Why is the tv on with the mute on?
Daughter #1: Cause of the pretty moving pictures!
Daughter #2: Yeah! It’s like an aquarium, but with Tom Hanks.
Upper Hutt
New Zealand
Overheard by: Kat
