Crazy old woman to teenagers: I just learned something today. The Native Americans had microwaveable pot!
Amherst, Massachusetts
Overheard by: shay
Crazy old woman to teenagers: I just learned something today. The Native Americans had microwaveable pot!
Amherst, Massachusetts
Overheard by: shay
Rich college white guy: If this music thing doesn't work out for me, my backup is med school.
Malibu, California
Overheard by: Stephen Perlstein
Psychology professor: Sex is best. Money is second best. Domestic violence is pretty cool.
Los Angeles, California
Professor: How old are you?
Visiting high school student: Seventeen.
Professor: And you're not married? Well, you've come to the right place!
Freed-Hardeman University
Henderson, Tennessee
Overheard by: Lisa
Girl #1: Oh my god! At work today, the kids had to write stories and they are the worst writers ever! One kid had an entire paragraph with no periods, and a bunch of them were capitalizing days of the week and stuff. It was awful.
Girl #2: You're supposed to capitalize days of the week.
Girl #1, in embarrassed awe: No! You're kidding, right? I told them they weren't supposed to…
http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/10/thursdays-child-has-far-to-go.html
Overheard by: lauren
College girl #1: You know how that rumor got started? Because you denied him. It happened to my mom in high school.
College girl #2: “Just because I didn't sleep with you doesn't mean I have chlamydia!” I so need a shirt that says that.
London
Ontario
Canadia
Guy to friend, matter-of-factly: You know he’s just teaching there for the kielbasa.
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota
Dude to chick: It's the first day of class–let's get wasted! (both hi five)
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: widget
Stats professor explaining problem: And that comes out to be 13.58 when we hire monkeys to plug in the values on our calculators…[more quietly] I really do love monkeys you know…
Barnum Hall, Tufts University
Massachusetts
Overheard by: Adrian
Professor to students: You need go out and have a lot of sex.
Seattle University, Washington
