Germany

Lone woman at bar, to no one: This is not what I call penis enlargement.

Florian bar
Berlin
Germany

Overheard by: And I used to go out with her

Student, discussing artwork: … And this represents my soul!
Teacher, squinting: Your soul is Batman?

Twelfth grade art class
Frankfurt
Germany

Overheard by: Giggling in the back row

Canadian girl #1 to tour operator: Where can we do tours of Auschwitz?
Tour operator: Um, well, Auschwitz is in Poland, so…
Canadian girl #2: No, but we mean the one the Germans set up for the war. The German one.
Tour operator: Yes, I understand, but they set it up in Poland.
Canadian girl #1, after pause: Are you sure? We came to Berlin just to see it.

Berlin
Germany

Overheard by: Jit

Fashionable girl to singing man on bicycle: Excuse me, are you mentally ill or just musically inclined?

Düsseldorf
Germany

Overheard by: Anja Schwalm

Four-year old: But I want to go in there!
Frazzled mother: No! Let's go, we have to get home.
Four-year old (crying): You aren't the right mother for me!

Berlin
Germany

Guy with cigarette: I have to go home to my girlfriend.
Friend: Just fuck her for ten minutes and then meet me in the bar.

Munich
Germany

Overheard by: How romantic…

Middle-aged American tourist woman: The rooms here have strange plugs, I simply cannot use my curling iron! This is outrageous… I want to see the manager immediately!

Hotel Restaurant
Munich
Germany

Overheard by: Dru

Female friend: I think there are no nude pictures of me… (pause) …On the internet.

Münster
Germany

American tourist: It's so quaint here. All the pretty houses. It's so romantic.
German host: Uh-huh.
American tourist: What I don't get, though, is why they built it if they don't even charge money for people visiting it.
German host: I think the people living here would feel weird about that.
American woman: Wait, people actually live here??

Regensburg
Germany

Loud, fat american teen: I have to take the biggest leak ever. Pause. And then I want to check out those hedgehogs.

Market in Freiburg, Germany