Little girl: (talking over airport announcement)
Father: Quiet for a second!
Girl: (continues talking until announcement is over)
Father: Great. What if he was saying “Run! Zombies!”? We’ll be sitting here like idiots while the zombies come…
O’Hare Airport
Chicago, Illinois
Man to store employee: It’s one of those real estate investment books, the yellow ones.
Employee: Let’s see, follow me… Is this what you were looking for?
Man: No, no, that’s the one for idiots, I want the one for dummies.
Barnes & Noble
San Diego, California
Overheard by: Lisa
Vendor: Buy some water! I’ll teach you how to dance!
Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Seraphina
Quiet, intense, plain chubby girl to skinny guy with child-molester mustache: When you fuck me, choke me.
Leamington Spa
England
Overheard by: Blee
Yoga lady: I mean, really: just give me the Eskimo sex, not the cannibalism.
Powell’s Bookstore
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: kate
Girl: Look, if I buy you an ice cream, will you stop talking about cannibalism?
Guy: Maybe.
Edinburgh
Scotland
Father with two small sons dressed in Halloween costumes, walking into liquor store: Okay, guys, now pick out the kind of whiskey you want and go put it up on the counter.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Girl to friend: And then this guy, I can’t remember his name, he was like “hey, you want some cake?” But I’ve read his blog and he believes in creationism, so I was like “no, thanks.”
Christchurch
New Zealand
Customer: I’ll have a large hot chocolate, a chocolate glazed donut, and a plain bagel with smoked salmon cream cheese on the side.
Drive-thru grunt: What did you say for the cream cheese on the side?
Customer: Smoked salmon.
Drive-thru grunt: Oh, we don’t have that kind.
Customer: What kinds of cream cheese do you have?
Drive-thru grunt: We have chive. Chive is like smoked salmon.
Customer: Uh…yeah.
Bangor, Maine
Overheard by: just wanted a coffee
Student in English class: Does anyone know the difference between romantic poems with a capital R and lowercase r?
Reston, Virginia
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