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So Many Wa­ter­shed Mo­ments Hap­pen at Ba­nana Re­pub­lic

(in the George­town Ba­nana Re­pub­lic)
Girl #1: I re­al­ly love this dress, but I think it’s a tad too short for work. I’m on­ly sup­posed to be buy­ing dress­es for work right now.
Girl #2: Re­al­ly? It’s not too short for my of­fice. But my boss on­ly hires pret­ty peo­ple, so he likes it when we wear short dress­es.
Girl #1: Did you think I’m ug­ly?
Girl #2: No! Buy the dress and send me your re­sume.

http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-wears-short-shorts.html

Over­heard by: Ian

…Grand­ma.

Ghet­to la­dy on cell: Where you at? (pause) Yeah, you bet­ter be at work and not out fuck­ing around on me. (pause) You know damn well what the fuck I am talk­ing about, moth­er­fuck­er! (pause) Bitch, I am mak­ing tacos so I got­ta get some fuck­ing sour cream. (pause) I said I am mak­ing fuck­ing tacos. (pause) Al­right, I love you too.

Sun Fresh
Kansas City, Mis­souri

Over­heard by: We­sAli

And I’m Wash­ing It Down with Lax­a­tives!

Mod­el scout, hand­ing out card to hot tall teen: I know you’re prob­a­bly mod­el­ing al­ready, but take my card any­way.
Short­er teen girl to friend, af­ter scout has left: Fuck you. The on­ly rea­son he gave you his card in­stead of me was be­cause I’m eat­ing a cook­ie. But it’s the on­ly thing I’ve had to eat to­day!

Star­bucks
Stu­dio City, Cal­i­for­nia

Over­heard by: Urz

It All Start­ed When I Tried to Sep­a­rate the Laun­dry…

Prep­py teenage girl #1, be­fore Sex and the City movie: Oh! I heard that Jen­nifer He­witt is in this movie!
Prep­py teenage girl #2: No, it’s Jen­nifer Hud­son.
Prep­py teenage girl #1: Whats the dif­fer­ence?
Prep­py teenage girl #2: Jen­nifer He­witt is the white ac­tress who made a CD and can’t sing and was in the Garfield movie. Jen­nifer Hud­son is the black girl from Amer­i­can Idol who won an Os­car for that movie with Be­y­once.
Prep­py teenage girl #1: Are ei­ther one of them singing in this movie?
Prep­py teenage girl #2: I don’t know.
(long pause)
Prep­py teenage girl #3: Speak­ing of black peo­ple, I got in trou­ble for be­ing racist at work to­day.

Plano, Texas