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Exasperated girl in the middle of the street: I really don't feel like taking my shirt off for this guy!

St. Andrews
Fife
Scotland

Overheard by: Nina

Little girl: I got powerade instead of water!
Grandma: Well that wasn't a good idea.
Little girl: I know.

McDonald's, Kalkaska, MI

Overheard by: Will Y.

Professor: The guillotine was humane. It was just humane many thousands of times.

Oberlin, Ohio

Overheard by: Secret Spy

Worried suit: That’s why we get our chairs cleaned more than any other department. We get our chairs cleaned every three months. Why doesn’t anyone put a stop to this?

Metro Bus
Seattle, Washington

Constitutional politics professor: Because the North Koreans don't even know if the world exists!

Maryland

Overheard by: loves this awkward class

Girl #1: Shit!
Girl #2: What?
Girl #1: I forgot to ask him if he's gay!
Girl #2: But you don't even know him!
Girl #1: I know, and now I've lost my chance…I'll wonder for the rest of my life if he was gay or not. And maybe one day, when I'm old and gray, I'll see him, at a bus-stop maybe, and then I'll try to ask him…and he'll be already on the bus, and I'll never know.
Girl #2: You're kind of a freak.

University of Delaware

Girl: I want to bake you a cake!
Boy: I don't do commitment.

Melbourne
Australia

Real estate broker/teacher to class: So tell me, in the 1770s, when Thomas Jefferson was coming up with this system, if you were to want to go from the original colonies to London, what mode of transportation would you most likely take?
Woman in the back: Horse?

Scottsdale School of Real Estate
Scottsdale, Arizona

Overheard by: Mirth

Yuppie: So then this guy jumped out wearing a ski mask and at first I laughed, but then I realized he was black!

Goshen, Indiana

Overheard by: Dej

Drunk man to man holding rolled-up newspaper: There's a kind of phallic-ness about it, a sort of masculine quality…

The Ship Inn, Southbank
Brisbane
Australia