Man on cell: So I told the guy, “Your current girlfriend is my wife.”
Mall
Savannah, Georgia
Man on cell: So I told the guy, “Your current girlfriend is my wife.”
Mall
Savannah, Georgia
Wild-haired diner outside restaurant (seriously): If I don't get tenure next year, I don't know what I'll do. I'll have to … I don't know … I'll have to just blog about it.
Bloomsbury, London
England
Random high school kid (during summer school): Shoes are like hats for your feet!
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, Virginia
Professor: As you can see, I don't take breaks. So if you have to go smoke a marijuana cigarette or go have sex in the bathroom, just go ahead.
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Chick #1: I'm gonna have to break down and spring for a land line.
Chick #2: How come?
Chick #1: So I can find my cell phone in my apartment.
Starbucks
San Rafael, California
Overheard by: Where'd I put my coffee?
Teenage waitress telling baby boomer male customer her medical issues: Yeah, and I got this tail thing right here. (points at lower back) It looks like I'm growing a tail.
Fatz Cafe
Lexington, South Carolina
Girl suit (walking by a fancy art studio pointing at the concrete): Oh my god! That's totally where Ashley peed on Saturday night!
Friend: We didn't even walk down this street!
Girl suit: Yes we did! Because that's the trash can you were passed out over, this is the corner where I ditched you.
7th & J
San Diego, California
Black girl to girlfriend: He's young, like 24, 25. And get this: I was like, “So, what else do you do?” and he goes “I make beats.” I said, “Of course you do.”
Subway
New York City, New York
Overheard by: EL
Freakishly tall chick: Could you imagine a primordial dwarf in my family? The kid would kill me as soon as they could wield a weapon of some kind, because I'd laugh at them so much.
Friend: Or he'd turn the hatred outwards, and be a serial killer. Oh man, could you imagine, a primordial dwarf serial killer?
Freakishly tall chick: That would be awesome.
Aurora, Colorado
Overheard by: Lee