Yeah, Indirectly

Girl: No, isn’t Macbeth the one where she gets her husband to kill Macbeth?

http://community.livejournal.com/overheardatyork/

Overheard by: Stu

Posted on March 2, 2016
Books, Death & dying, Education, Family ties, Girls, Overheard at York, Questions, Relationships, Violence

In T9 for Two

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

Posted on February 23, 2016
Books, Compare and contrast, Default, Girls, Names, Other sites, Sex

Clearly You've Never Had to Deal with a Crying Five-Year-Old

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

Posted on February 18, 2016
Animals, Books, Canadia, Compare and contrast, Death & dying, Education, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Teachers

Whatever Queen Elizabeth Said Went

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

Posted on January 4, 2016
Books, Compare and contrast, Default, North Carolina, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Teachers, Vagina

Hamlet Woulda Loved Resident Evil

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

Posted on November 27, 2015
Books, Colleges & Universities, Death & dying, Education, Frat boy types, Murder, Pennsylvania, Questions, Stupidity, Teachers, Zombies

Americans Mistakenly Believe Silence Can Be Improved Upon

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

Posted on October 27, 2015
Books, Character, Girls, Language barrier, Music, Strangers, Train

In the Nightmares Section

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

Posted on October 2, 2015
Books, Canadia, Default, Employees, Guys, Kids, Offers and requests, Stores

Today's Young Woman Is Proud to Display Everything She's Got

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

Posted on August 14, 2015
Books, Bosses, Colleges & Universities, Compliments, Coworkers, Fashion, Ohio, Questions, Violence

In Our Family, We Get Our Pornography from the Internet

Boy, holding bodice-ripper romance novel: Dad, is this a book for fifth-graders?
Distracted father: No. Put it back.
Boy: What is it?
Distracted father: Hardcore pornography. Put it back.

Fairwood, Washington

Overheard by: he was so hopeful

Posted on August 10, 2015
Books, Dads, Etiquette, Kids, Parenting, Porn, Questions, Washington

Thankfully I've Brought Enough for the Class

Literature professor, after reciting Hamlet's “To be or not to be…”: So now you all need a Valium…count on me to ruin your day.

English Lit Class
Anchorage, Alaska

Overheard by: Rosencrantz

Posted on August 1, 2015
Alaska, Books, Class, Default, Names, Offers and requests, Teachers