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Math teacher: Use the ratio test if you can expect to cancel out many many factors, like a happy schizophrenic child flailing his factor-canceling-crowbar.

Philippines

Girl, at beginning of Jesus Christ Superstar: Are they going to kill Jesus?
Boyfriend: Well…yes, Sarah. That's sort of how it works.

Jersey City, New Jersey

Overheard by: Adam Nathan

20-something guy: It's a good thing it didn't work out. She was poor.

Rock Climbing Gym
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: tangotravellers

Girl in North Face jacket and Uggs to clone friends: I mean, why couldn't it have been a normal suicide? Like, this week? Really?

Penn State Library
University Park, Pennsylvania

College boy #1: You should get a Catholic priest suit and…
College boy #2, interrupting: I have one.

Cresson, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: ZB

Middle aged redneck woman: Yeah, or I'm gonna get more sicker!
Redneck friend: There's no such thing as “more sicker.” It's a double negative.
Middle aged redneck woman: Yeah! Double sicker!

Oneonta, New York

Overheard by: Caroline

Ob-gyn lecturing on different contraceptives: Yeah, uterine perforations are a total bummer.

Harvard School of Public Health
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hot Polish girl: So what are you?
Fat English girl: You're half Indian and half…?
British Indian guy: Half Indian.
Fat English girl: So half Indian and half…?
British Indian guy: Half Indian.
Hot polish girl: He means he's totally Indian.
Fat English girl: No no no… Half Indian and something else.
British Indian guy, exasperated: Totally Indian… But I was born here.
Hot polish girl to British Indian guy's white friend: I've got a boyfriend, I'm not fucking you tonight. Probably.

Leamington Spa
England

Overheard by: Bleep

Woman on cell: Uh, yeah, I'm standing in, uh… Old Navy. See you in a bit!

The Gap, Crossgates Mall
Albany, New York

Overheard by: unhappy gapper

Old Asian woman to young blonde cafeteria worker: You too skinny to mop! That is man's job!

University of Colorado at Boulder

Overheard by: Not the skinny sister.