Girl, wearing leather pants and high heels, pushing a cart containing D batteries, duct tape, and huge bag of rice, on cell: I don’t know why he’s so smug, I told him what I would do to him if I caught him again. [pause] Okay, well I’ve almost got everything I need, I’ll be right over.
Wal-Mart
Lufkin, Texas
Overheard by: wtf?
Bimbette, staring at Gay-Straight Alliance meeting sign: Oh my god, the gay thing was *so* five years ago.
Troy High School
Fullerton, California
A girl screams and begins running away.
Friend: It’s a chipmunk, you dumbass!
Girl, resuming original path: Oh.
Hubbard Lane
East Lansing, Michigan
Overheard by: Jigga Mouse
Blonde to friend: You know that guy I was going out with? He told me he was going out with me because he liked blondes, and I thought, ‘I’m not a blonde,’ but then I remembered I was… But that’s not a good enough reason to go out with me.
National Art Gallery
Canberra
Australia
Overheard by: Dr Hackenbush
Spanish chick: Hey, you were in Auschwitz?
English guy: Yeah.
Spanish chick: Was it any fun?
English guy: Uhhh, I wouldn’t say that.
Spanish chick: Yeah, I know, I know… But was it cool?
English guy: Well… Hmmm…
Poland
Wadsworth character in the movie Clue: You see, my secret is that my wife was a socialist.
Girl watching the film: So, does that mean that she was a prostitute or something?
French class, All Saints High School
Whitby, Ontario
Canadia
Bimbette: But if we buy more Nike stuff, won’t the kids making it get more money?
High school
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadia
Bimbette: Wait! So she had the baby via circumcision?!
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2007/04/19/but-even-if-she-were-intersexed-circumcision-wouldnt-make-it-wide-enough/
Overheard by:
Girl #1: … And my boyfriend told me what a bad person I was, and I was like, ‘Don’t say that to me! You’re hurting my feelings!’ Then I did drugs and cried all day.
Girl #2: Wow. Well, we should really study today…
Girl #1: Yeah, let’s stay really late. Like, ’til 10.
Girl #2, totally serious: Yeah… Or we can go to the Biosphere and get burgers…
Girl #1, also serious: Yeah.
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2007/03/20/i-was-reading-a-booklets-ride-bikes/
Brunette: Are you getting him something for Christmas?
Blonde: Why would I?
Brunette: I don't know, I thought you were close!
Blonde: Christmas present? He's Jewish!
Brunette: Ohhhh.
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
