Frat boy reading section titles: “Self-help, cooking, fiction.” …is fiction science?
Barnes & Noble
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: almost threw a book at him
Frat boy reading section titles: “Self-help, cooking, fiction.” …is fiction science?
Barnes & Noble
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: almost threw a book at him
Saxophone-playing dude: [About Huck Finn] You really think some ten-year-old white boy is gonna be running around with a crazy black man like “Woo hoo! Everything’s cool!”? No way, man, they woulda ate him!
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Girl: No, isn’t Macbeth the one where she gets her husband to kill Macbeth?
http://community.livejournal.com/overheardatyork/
Overheard by: Stu
Girl to friends in line for bathroom: That's going to be the next chapter of the book: Boys Who Text But Won't Have Sex!
http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2008/11/dont-blame-me-it-wasnt-my-turn-to-post.html
Overheard by: Eavesdrop DC
English teacher: Literature just isn't exciting unless people suffer. Like Dora the Explorer, nothing bad ever happens to her. The show would be a lot better if her monkey got hit by a car and died, wouldn't it?
High School
Calgary
Canadia
Overheard by: mcoo
Teacher: Next, we're reading Much Ado about Nothing.
(class groans)
Teacher: Back then, “nothing” was slang for “vagina.”
Class: Ooooh.
Enloe High
Raleigh, North Carolina
English teacher, reading Hamlet: “To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…” Alright class, we'll pick it up from there on Monday.
Frat boy #1: What the fuck was that about?
Frat boy #2: I don't know, man. Let's go kill some zombies.
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Alyssa
Russian girl: When I read in Russian, nothing can stop me. But when I read in English, I need silence.
American girl: That's what the music is for!
Train
Moscow to Nizhniy Novgorod
Russia
Overheard by: Adam Nathan
Man to salesperson in hippie bookstore: Hi I'm looking for a children's book about how chemicals and global warming are destroying the earth.
Salesperson: Oh, sure, it's right over here!
The Bookshelf
Guelph, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: The zoe
Library worker girl: That's a cute bag.
Library worker girl with clear purse: Thanks!
Boss man: But then everyone can see everything you have!
Library worker girl with clear purse: It's not like I got a gun or anything… I can always hide things between the books…
Library worker girl: Like your gun?
Kent State University Library
Kent, Ohio
