Mom: You know, you’re a strange duck.
Three-year-old son: Yeah? Well, you have a big nose! [Laughs hysterically.]Mom: Out of all my kids, I like you the least.
City bus
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canadia
Overheard by: Sarah
Mom: You know, you’re a strange duck.
Three-year-old son: Yeah? Well, you have a big nose! [Laughs hysterically.]Mom: Out of all my kids, I like you the least.
City bus
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canadia
Overheard by: Sarah
Chick: … And then the party, like, totally got out of control — they wanted to put firecrackers in the snake tank! And then my dad kicked everyone out. He didn’t actually say anything, he just draped the snake over his shoulders and walked around looking at people with, like, six feet of snake on him.
Friend: Is this one of those stories about how your dad is a bad influence?
Montreal, Quebec
Canadia
College girl #1: You know how that rumor got started? Because you denied him. It happened to my mom in high school.
College girl #2: “Just because I didn't sleep with you doesn't mean I have chlamydia!” I so need a shirt that says that.
London
Ontario
Canadia
Skinny girl: My sister is on a diet now, I don't like it. First she's taller than me, but that's okay, I got over it. I just don't want her to be skinnier than me.
Guy friend: You should be happy for her.
Skinny girl: No way! I'm below that.
Vancouver
Canadia
Girl to friends: I've always wanted to dress up like Jesus… My grandmother would be so proud of me.
St. John's
Newfoundland
Canadia
60-something man, watching obese woman board bus, loudly: So fat!
30-something woman, quietly: Yeah, sometimes it might be genetics or something. Not just cured by exercise, you know?
60-something man, loudly: I try to avoid getting too close to people who are that fat. I'm scared they'll just explode and innards will get all over me!
30-something woman: (disgusted look)
London
Canadia
Overheard by: On the bus
Girl, to friends: So then she e-mailed us all, and she was like, “We just ate an African baby!”
Memorial University
St. John's
Newfoundland, Canadia
Overheard by: Mel
Chick: He knows how to put it in, he just hasn’t ever done it before.
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Beebo
Stoner #1: But what if he isn't there, or doesn't have any to sell to us?
Stoner #2: It's cool, dude, he's always there and he always has some.
Stoner #1: For sure?
Stoner #2: Yeah, man, and if we can't get any pot we will just get a hot dog instead. Stoner #1: Okay, that sounds good.
Fat Franks
Edmonton, Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Had Pot, and hot dog!
Guy #1: I know how to get your kid back, easy! I'll just put a bag of crack in your mom's car and call the cops and say “there is this old lady with a bag of crack and a baby in her car!” (laughs)
Guy #2: That would be so cool.
Bus Stop
Edmonton, Alberta
Canadia
