Compare and contrast

Sociology professor: This course is cheap, but I'm expensive, so please make use of me.

Boston University, Massachusetts

Guy: It was like trying to pull candy from a baby.

West Island
Montreal
Canadia

Teenage girl on cell: I don't get on with him at all…we're just like bread and butter.

London
England

Overheard by: Steve Elliott

Little boy, standing next to a car: Daddy, this isn’t our car! Daddy, what are you doing? This isn’t our car!
Man: Look, buddy, you’ve got to stop saying that when we’re in parking lots. [to a couple walking by] I just got a new car.
Little boy: No you didn’t!

AMC Theatres
Owings Mills, Maryland

Overheard by: they steal cars, dont they?

Little girl: Daddy! Daddy! Emma just kissed the shopping cart!
Father: She’ll kiss worse things in her life.

Hannaford
Yarmouth, Maine

Overheard by: Jade

20-something girl to table of people: And I was like, “Whoa, mom–your nipples are like top hats!”

Kasey's Tavern
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Sara

Hipster girl to friend: I heard the most offensive thing in Crate & Barrel!

San Francisco, California

Mini-skirt girl: Her name is Pearl, so she's either an 80-year-old white lady from Connecticut…
Suit: Or an 18-year-old, French-speaking lieutenant in an Asian motorcycle gang.
Mini-skirt girl: Yours is weirdly specific.

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Overheard by: Agreed

Friend #1: We should all say something about ourselves. One thing good and one thing bad.
Friend #2: What about you?
Friend #1: Well, I have a good sense of humor. And I guess something bad would be that the other day, I slept with some person because I didn't have a place to stay, but in the morning, I'd forgotten his name…so when he went out his room I had to search through it to find some kind of identity card of his so I could pretend I knew it all along. His name was Richard.

Pub
London Bridge
England

Environmental science teacher: What, in your opinion, is the most pressing environmental issue our planet faces today?
Clueless redhead, raising hand unsurely: Is it… The birds?
Environmental science teacher: Excuse me?
Clueless redhead: Isn't there something up with birds? Like, aren't they dying or something?
Environmental science teacher: Um… Thousands of different animals are dying…
Clueless redhead: Oh. I thought it was just birds.

High School
Los Angeles, California