Boy to giggling girl #1: I like your eyelashes, they’re really long.
(jealous silence)
Giggling girl #2: The rest of us have eyelashes too!
Twickenham
England
Overheard by: Becca
Boy to giggling girl #1: I like your eyelashes, they’re really long.
(jealous silence)
Giggling girl #2: The rest of us have eyelashes too!
Twickenham
England
Overheard by: Becca
Drunk girl: You know, me and Jared are a lot alike. We both kind of throw ourselves out there with the same kind of desperation, only mine… is a more quiet desperation.
University of Idaho
Idaho
Overheard by: Funnygirl
Chemistry professor: Now, it may seem that nature has gotten it wrong–but like me, nature never gets it wrong.
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Thugette: I ain’t talking to you no more!
Thug: Well, let me ask you a question — about you.
Thugette: Alright.
Thug: What you heard about me?!
Downtown Mall
Charlottesville, Virginia
Teen girl: They’ve broken up three times, and it never goes well for me.
Studio City, California
Overheard by: Urz
Teen son to mother: Whats wrong?
Sulking mother: Well, it’s just that it’s my birthday and you’re all just buying things for yourselves.
Department Store
West Australia
Australia
Overheard by: linda
Indian entrepreneur: I am tired of listening to people talking. I want to listen to me talking.
http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/05/internal-dialogue.html
Overheard by: rich
Elderly lady to six-month-old baby: Now, I want you to say nice and clearly, “here I am, grandmother,” when I ask you where you are.
Oxford
England
Girl inside stall: I love my vagina!
Bathroom in Bar
New Haven, Connecticut
Girl #1: You’re retarded.
Girl #2: Yeah, me too.
San Diego, California
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist