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Fancy girl #1: Oh my god, getting hit by a car is totally my favorite activity.
Fancy girl #2: Really? Mine is shopping.

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Roommate #1: Do you want to go clothes shopping for spring break?
Roommate #2, making disgusted face: I don't wear clothes on spring break.
Roommate #1: (long pause)
Roommate #2: I just wear a bathing suit.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Overheard by: Roommate #3

Boy eating lunch: I am without sin! That's why potatoes come down my chimney!

Dagenham
Essex
England

Overheard by: Anthony Mercer

Tall, skinny kid: He's…like…suspiciously Asian.
Tall skinny friend: That's what I thought too!

Arby's
Tempe, Arizona

Outraged man on phone: And then he said he wants to try this thing where we don't have sex for a year! I can't not have sex for a year!

London
England

Overheard by: Haifisch

Mom, giving toddler a stocking: That’ll keep you quiet for a minute. [Toddler starts stretching it over his face.] Awww, that’s so cute. Are you gonna go rob a bank?

DSW Shoes
New Jersey

Overheard by: Unburdened shoe shopper

Mother, about a TV: It’s really heavy! It’s as heavy as–
Four-year-old girl: –A dead body.

Bellingen
Australia

Salesman to guy purchasing new phone: Yeah, we can totally transfer all your contacts and calendar and stuff to this new phone.
Guy (in English accent): Well, can you do that on this other model?
Salesman: No, you can't transfer your contacts from your old one to this model.
Guy (in English accent): Oh, that doesn't matter. I don't have any friends.

Austin, Texas

Guy #1: Do you want your doctor's lab coat Halloween costume back?
Guy #2: Nah, I don't care. You can keep it.
Guy #3: But don't you need it for this Wednesday?
Guy #2: No… What happens Wednesday?
Guy #3: It's lab coat Wednesday!
Guy #2: What?

Salt Lake City, Utah

Overheard by: Ben

Older man to friend: I don't like being murdered! Do you know how it feels like to be murdered? Trust me, you don't want to know. I'm always being murdered.

Princeton, New Jersey

Overheard by: uhh am I seeing ghosts?