Male English teacher to female student: You know, for the last 30 minutes I've been thinking of… The holy city that is your face.
High School
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: ShouldThisBeReported?
Male English teacher to female student: You know, for the last 30 minutes I've been thinking of… The holy city that is your face.
High School
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: ShouldThisBeReported?
Ditzy college girl, interrupting class: Do you live in Penn Yan?
Professor: No, I live on Bluff Point.
Ditzy college girl: Oh… Did you know that Sarassin's delivers?
Professor: No, I didn't, but do you mind if I get back to my lecture?
Keuka College
New York
Overheard by: Rachel Bz.
Girl: Ever since I started making an effort to look good for school, I've felt so good about myself. Now, people are calling me! (pause) For sex.
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2008/11/25/hi-is-this-cindy-yeah-im-in-your-math-class-wanna-fuck/
Overheard by: Sherbrooke
Science professor: This is plastic deformation, like what happens to those baby-seal catchers. You know, the plastic that comes around soda cans? Sometimes you catch penguins too, but those are much harder–they run really fast, and they have no regard for their bodies. They just throw themselves off cliffs.
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Pol-sci professor: Nuking other countries is kind of rude.
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
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
