Student: No, we're not wearing clown masks. I don't want to have to make the effort.
Sixth Form College
England
Overheard by: Becca
Princess: You guys, Johnny Depp doesn't always play dark characters. He was blonde in Secret Window!
Little Bar
Kentucky
Overheard by: Dead Betty
Lady on the bus: So I was 17 and pregnant! He was a Nazi extremist, but a very nice man. Very charming. I was rebellous (sic) as a teenager. Very rebellous. But now I'm old-fashioned, and I've got lots of morals.
Wellington
New Zealand
Overheard by: dominic
Attractive teenage girl on cell, visibly upset: Man, not even my therapist understands my concerns that I'm not emotionally ready for Harry Potter to end. It's all just very sad and everyone thinks I'm crazy. Goddamn.
Alabama
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
Gender professor: I don’t know how you’d know by just looking at men if they’re the chivalrous kind or the rapey kind.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-rapey-kind.html
Guy on phone: Hold on a minute, I just have to cut something off my daughter…
Jersey City, New Jersey
Woman #1, standing over large dropped box on floor: Ugh, I dropped it.
Woman #2: That's it! Straddle it, you'll get it.
Woman #1: I can never get it up.
Target
North Charleston, South Carolina
Overheard by: Chris M
Girl on phone: All right, bye. I love you sometimes.
Durham, North Carolina
