Books

Employee: Hi, can I help you find anything?
Ghetto kid: Yeah, I'm looking for a book called Marijuana Horticulture.
Employee: Yeah, I know that book. I think we are out, though.

Bookstore
Stockton, California

Overheard by: Can I get some of that?

Guy on urinal on the phone: Yeah, let slip the dogs of war…protein. No truer words have ever been spoken…Shakespeare didn't know shit… (farts loudly) Fuck! (farts again) Fuck. Energy drinks…I'm outta here.

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Woman in her fifties, walking out of Brideshead Revisited: It was okay.
Husband: Yeah.
Woman: It's no Wall-E, but it was okay.

Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Evy

Emo girl to emo friend: They have a whole Harry Potter section…I love the world!

Borders
Manalapan, New Jersey

Little boy looking at book: Is a noun a noun? Is an adjective an adjective?

Madison, Wisconsin

Overheard by: Couch Centaur

Girl #1: It's just that I feel like Amazon is judging me.
Girl #2: Why?
Girl #1: I bought one gay erotica book and now it wants me to buy Japanese porn.

Starbucks
Ukiah, California

Woman: How old is that bible?
Clerk (picking it up): 1911.
Woman: Thats the first one?
Clerk: First what?
Woman: First bible.
Clerk: (astonished silence)

Resale Shop
Hammond, Indiana

Teen son: I really want to read a book, I don't know why.
Mother: No, it's such a waste of money.

Target
Voorhees, New Jersey

Overheard by: deno