Teenage girl: What are you doing here?
20-something girl: Came to get some lighters because I lost mine.
Teenage girl, after a moment: Your virginity?
20-something girl, slowly: No, my lighters…you just choose what you want to hear and make up the rest, don't you?
Teenage girl: Yeah.
Scotland
United Kingdom
Overheard by: Jen
Very blonde white lady, at a table with her children: I love the ghetto!
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Claire
Short Asian chick to tall white guy: Oh my gawd, I've got it! So, heat rises, right? So it's probably all warm up there where you are, and down here with the normal people it's cold, and that's why you don't think it's cold, even though it's freaking freezing! Gawd, I love being an Asian! I come up with the most genius shit!
Muirlands Middle School
La Jolla, California
35-year-old man: Do you know what I did for you? I left my home, my wife. I cheated because I was cheated on, I know what that's like. You're turning 30, you need a man, what's a woman at 30? You're alone!
28-year-old woman: You're having a midlife crisis. Women don't get those. I'm there for you, like, “you should stop at three drinks because you're a terrible drunk.”
35-year-old man: You'd do that for me?
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Matt
Girl #1: I have to gloat a little. Who's the perv now, bitches?
Girl #2: Still us.
Girl #1: Well, duh, still us. But now them, too!
Girl #2: Totally.
Maynard, Massachusetts
Economics professor: I don't judge others' lifestyles. (pause) I mean…unless they are a total trainwreck.
Illinois State University
Chick #1: I hope you never snap and become a serial killer.
Chick #2 (lovingly): Because I'd kill you first!
Chick #1: I know.
Chick #2: And then I'd stuff you… I would stuff you with your clothes so you smell like yourself.
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Good Advice!
Guy, walking into Planned Parenthood: Hey, I just locked my keys in my car that's just around the corner. Can I borrow a coat hanger?
Girl working front desk: Uh, do you know where you are?
Guy: No.
Girl working front desk: Well, we keep 'em in the back!
Bloomington, Indiana
Overheard by: Morgan Roddy
Drunk girl in low-cut top, smoking cigarette: So where're we going now?
Drunk guy: There's always Shadows*.
Drunk girl: Isn't that a strip club?
Drunk guy: Naah, they lost their license or something… There's sometimes still girls there.
Drunk girl, sounding dubious: Mate, I'm not paying £300 to get tossed off.
Drunk guy, reassuringly: Ha! They won't toss you off…
Drunk girl, in small voice as he turns to other friends: What if I want to get tossed off…
Leamington Spa
England
Overheard by: Bleep
