Black girl to white friends: Black people want to be country, but we don’t want to listen to the music.
Harvard Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: meems
Archive for the ‘Massachusetts’ Category
Just When Race Relations Were Improving in Boston
White tourist: I’m really sorry — I don’t have any change. If I did, I’d give you some, but I don’t, so… sorry. Good luck with everything…
Black dude: Cracka, I’m ain’t homeless!
Hynes Convention Center subway stop
Boston, Massachusetts
Kenny Chesney Never Mentioned That
Hungover chick: It was the first time I ever gave a blow job…on a tractor.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Shotboy
I’m an Equal-Opportunity Whore
Hoochie #1: I’m just an attention-whore, not a sex-whore.
Hoochie #2: I think I’m both.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Meesh
Should’ve Realized He Wasn’t “Chosen” When He Never Got Picked for T‑Ball
Girl to friend: So he was already crying because he found out we weren’t Jewish. Then he was like, “But aunt Jill is Jewish! Why aren’t we?!” My mom had to explain that Jill’s her best friend, not her sister. So then he found out we weren’t related to Jacob and everyone. So he cried even harder.
Friend: Wow.
Girl: Yeah, but he was like 10, so he should have just sucked it up.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Tyler
How China Got Ahead of Us
Man: I never let anyone I owe money to walk behind me.
Hancock Street, Beacon Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
Just When I Thought You Couldn’t Get Any Fruitier, Buddy.
Pizza delivery guy, singing, with a handful of Froot Loops: Frooooooot loooooops!
Later, coming out of building: Everybody loves Froooooot Looooooooooops!
UMass
Amherst, Massachusetts
Overheard by: chromathegreat
Translation: Top That, Motherfucker!
Amherst girl to Dartmouth guy, discussing Hillel dinners at Harvard: I turned down a position at Massachusetts General Hospital because they don’t have squash courts.
Commuter Rail Train
Boston, Massachusetts
That Is So Cliche.
Working-class hippie: Oh, I have another porn story!
Foreign hippie: The one about your mom?
Working-class hippie: No, no, this one’s about Matt*–my surrogate father.
Amherst, Massachusetts
The Real World’s Sadly Lacking in Noble Causes Worth Fighting for
20-something girl to boyfriend: You’re such a nerd.
Boyfriend: We prefer “Men of Gondor.”
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Corey
