Girl #1: It's so freezing right now! How are you not cold?? (shivering on a picnic bench).
Girl #2: (nonchalantly) I think it's because I'm trying to grow out my armpit hair.
California State University, East Bay
Girl #1: It's so freezing right now! How are you not cold?? (shivering on a picnic bench).
Girl #2: (nonchalantly) I think it's because I'm trying to grow out my armpit hair.
California State University, East Bay
College dude to sales associate: This is going to sound like a weird question, but do you have marijuana-scented air fresheners for cars?
Newark, Delaware
Overheard by: Laughing behind a greeting card display
Girl: Yeah, I brushed my teeth! (pause) You want to lick my gums and see?
Chinatown
Edmonton
Canadia
Overheard by: Laura
Pilot over loudspeaker (riffing on harmonica): This is your captain speaking, (harmonica riff) Welcome aboard, (harmonica riff) Please fasten your seat belts. (harmonica riff) Or we won't be able to leave beautiful Atlanta, Georgia.
(does long, jazzy harmonica riff. Passengers applaud)
Pilot (in Elvis voice): Thank you very much.
American Airlines Flight
Atlanta, Georgia
Crazy homeless lady to well-dressed businessman: Look at you with the coffee, you faggot, you just love dick in your ass!
Starbucks
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: trying to avoid her wrath
English professor, discussing The Beauty and the Beast: What was his name? Gustav? Gaston? Whatever, he's French, to hell with him!
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Overheard by: Skye
Music history professor: Darwin says that the sole purpose for living things is to survive and procreate. What about us, as musicians? Do we need music to survive and procreate? Well, some people believe that music was created as a sort of mating call. Compare the reproductive life of Jimi Hendrix to the reproductive life of… well, me.
Class: Um…
Music history professor: Well, clearly I win hands-down because of all my groupies.
1 East Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: stravinsky
Girl #1, about girl #2's umbrella: That's so skinny!
Girl #2: Yeah, thanks.
Girl #1: You could do bad things with that…
Binghamton University, New York
Overheard by: Jillian
Girl on cell: Wait! (pause) So, it's a gang for crippled people?
Orlando, Florida
Guy on cell: I believe in signs, dude. I took a dump and it was totally shaped like a boot. I'm going to Italy.
http://overheardlines.blogspot.com/2008/07/guy-discussing-his-vacation-plans.html
Overheard by: alicia