Volunteer director to group of teenage volunteers: Now, ya gotta be careful or the tractor tires will catch on fire.
Teenage volunteers: (incredulous laughter)
Volunteer director: No, seriously! Last year they caught on fire and I totally had to pee on them!
Sonoma County, California
Overheard by: where was I last year?!
Suit #1: So, you heard who the new VP in my division is?
Suit #2: Yeah. She’s… a character, I’ll say that.
Suit #1: The Brits came to meet with her, and they left looking like… totally stunned.
Suit #2: Yep, she’s a force of nature, all right.
Suit #1: I just can’t believe they’d give her that job… That they want her dealing with all that political sensitivity when…
Suit #2, interrupting: When she’s a maniacal feral wild woman?
Suit #1: And she openly admits that she doesn’t think men should be in this division! She keeps making jokes about how we have no idea what the ladies want, and I’m like, how would she know either? She’s not a lady, she’s a monster!
Suit #2: She’s like a Hindu goddess of fire and destruction!
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Felicity Thistle
Patron #1: How are you tonight?
Patron #2: Well, I’m currently disappointed in humanity.
Bar
Columbus, Indiana
Overheard by: Projection1234
Customer: Hi, I’d like to return these pants.
Store manager: Can I ask why?
Customer: The pants talk.
Store manager: (…)
Customer, frantically: I mean, they pop! They pop!
Burnsville, Minnesota
Overheard by: I had to return a pair of talking pants once too
Middle aged shop owner, as female vocalist sings pop song on the radio: I ain’t no queer or nothing, but the first time I heard this song, I thought it was pretty as hell.
Waco, Texas
Woman with two toddlers, ordering cake: I need a P‑E‐N‐I‑S cake…
Manager, walking in, gleefully oblivious: Ohhh, a penis cake! We can put fake hair on it. Last time, we had fake semen shooting out…
Huntington, California
Indian entrepreneur: I am tired of listening to people talking. I want to listen to me talking.
http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/05/internal-dialogue.html
Overheard by: rich
Suit: So yeah, I found out how my boss’s boss takes his tea, and I took him a cup this morning, along with a muffin.
Non‐suit: And did you remember to take a napkin to wipe his feces from your nose?
London
England
Overheard by: Eastender
