Archive for the ‘Teens’ Category

If You Survive, It Starts Tilting the Other Way in Your 30s

Teen girl #1: Isn’t that, like, dangerous?
Teen girl #2: Well, yeah, but I’m at the point in my life where getting wasted is more important than not dying.

Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Grand Theft Auto: Apocalypse May Have Gone Too Far

Teenage ghetto boy: That’d be great, man, if everyone died … They’d be gone, and we could take all their cars!

Bus
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Claire

Lonely Old People Will Answer to Anything

Boy, to teenage girl: Hi, Lisa.
Old man, entering: Hi.

Cafe
Eugene, Oregon

Then He Was Like, “This Is a Job Interview, Tanya.”

Black teen girl to friend: He was like “you’re so high you don’t even know what to do!” and I was like “nigga, this ain’t the first time I smoked!”

Columbus, Ohio

Overheard by: Hancock

I’m Not Sure Hocking Your VCR Quite Counts

Thuggish teen to friends: Yeah, I’m going antiquing this weekend. For at least an hour.

Orange Line Train
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Julianna

…With the Red Carpet

Teenage girl on cell: I’m not saying that I want to be famous, I know not everyone can be famous, I’m just saying that’s the one thing I’ve always, like, aspired to, just a beautiful connection.

Huddersfield
England

The Make-a-Wish Foundation Failed to Return Her Calls

Teenage girl: You know what I wish I had?
Teenage boy, not paying attention: Uh-huh.
Teenage girl: A penis… I’d just go shoving it into people’s butts.
Teenage boy: Wait… What?
Teenage girl, whispering to herself: I wish I had a penis.

Bus
Ottawa
Canadia