Feelings

Sorostitute: Like, ohmigod, Africa is like so cute!

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Ladle

Man: My nipples are exploding with excitement!

Back Bay Station
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Me too

Little boy, in sing-song: I believe I can fly! I believe I can… die!
Sales clerk: That's the sad version.

JC Penney
Columbia, Missouri

Loud woman on phone: I was at the funeral on Wednesday and Melvin was sitting in the pew behind me. Halfway through the ceremony he leans forward and goes: “We're at the wrong funeral!” So we had to get up and find the right one. When we got there, the hill was so steep the hearse couldn't get up the hill! It was awful!

Train
Aberdeen
Scotland

Loud 50-something woman, happy and upbeat: I'm just sad. And lonely!

Lafayette, Louisiana

Drunk aboriginal man to drunk friends: I just got out of jail. My mum's been crying for me, my dog's been praying for me, my uncle Bob's been praying for me, all to get me back to Narrogin. I tell you, I'm the king of that town.

Fremantle
Australia

Five-year-old girl: Hey, mom, you know how you hate “pop and switch?”
Mom: Uh…what's “pop and switch?”
Five-year-old girl: The one where they trade bodies.
Mom: Oh! Oh, yeah, I hate “pop and switch.” That's scary…

JCPenney, Florence Mall
Florence, Kentucky

Overheard by: Dohiyi

Homeless guy to girl passing by: The economic downturn has thrown me into an existential panic! (girl looks at him quizzically) Yeah, us street folk feel that shit too.

Washington, DC

Overheard by: Alessa Colaianni

Woman: There’s nothing in my mouth that I’m ashamed of!

87 Bus
Jersey City, New Jersey

Boy: I feel naked.
(long awkward pause)
Girl: I'm glad you're not.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Overheard by: Molly, LQTM