Husband: What's the greatest story ever told, then?
Wife: Hansel and Gretel!
Los Angeles, California
Husband: What's the greatest story ever told, then?
Wife: Hansel and Gretel!
Los Angeles, California
Guy on cell: I would be walking, and suddenly the word “vaginas” with a massive smiley face beside would pop into my head, as if my brain was trying to tell me it's fun… like a children's book.
Winnipeg
Canadia
Overheard by: Chad
Ditz #1: …and then I was like, “Why did I fail spring semester, sir?” and then he was like, “You asked me if The Odyssey was an actual event, and stated that it was in every one of your papers on the subject, even after I told you it wasn't.”
Ditz #2: Wait, it wasn't?
Loyola University
Chicago, Illinois
Customer: Excuse me, where is your non-fiction section?
Salesgirl: What type of non-fiction are you looking for?
Customer: Harry Potter.
Bookstore
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Chick: I should write children's books based on those stories: the volleyball girl with bad luck, and the girl with the feet of a black man.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Overheard by: Lee
Teacher: Okay, so get out your books and start doing the exercises.
Student: Can I borrow your book?
Teacher: You didn't bring your books? Man…you guys are such losers.
Philadelphia University, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Student
Girl: Mom, you have to buy me a book.
Mom: I just bought you beef jerky!
Escondido, California
Overheard by: Ciara & Eric
Professor: When I was learning about Emily Dickinson in high school, I wasn't really paying attention. I was just wondering what she looked like without her clothes on.
Missouri
Waitress: Is this the book club? These are your free shots.
Bar
Allston, Massachusetts
Boy Scout dad, after walking through exhibit: So was he some sort of poet?
Woman: Uh, yeah… He was kind of a big deal.
Boy Scout dad: Did he write limericks?
Allen Ginsberg Exhibit
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Afrocurl
