Gossip

Guy #1: No, I mean, this dude is old-school.
Guy #2: Like, how old-school?
Guy #1: Like, so old-school he plays tennis!

http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2007/05/wii-tennis-anyone.html

Overheard by: brad

Physics kid #1: I’m going to stab you in the jugular!
Physics kid #2: I once got hit in the jugular with a ping-pong ball…
Physics kid #1: My friend got hit by a car recently when he was running at night.
Physics kid #2: Wait, in the jugular?

overheardmost

Overheard by: http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/04/long-time-no-update.html

College guy: No wonder Matt can’t get a date — his best line is, ‘Do you want a badly damaged brat?’

http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com/2007/06/some_girls_arent_picky.html

Old lady #1: There’s this neighborhood in Chicago that is absolutely infested with serial killers. Their solution to this was to build a Wal-Mart to bring rich, white people in.
Old lady #2: Did it help?
Old lady #1: No. One of the serial killer victims that was left for dead gave a description for a drawing, and nobody has seen him.
Old lady #2: Maybe he’s locked up during the day. Maybe he’s retarded and lives in a home and sneaks out only at night when no one will notice him.

Oakland, California

Overheard by: Perplexed Cal student

Queer to another: Wait — you traded Botox for coke?!

Universal CityWalk
Hollywood, California

Overheard by: Gluey

Girl: That orgy was like Legos — anyone and everyone on top of each other! You didn’t know what was what, who was who, where someone began or where did they end. It was just a big pile of human building blocks of pleasure.

Wonka Bar
Curitiba
Brazil

Nerd: She looks like Shrek, but she sings well.

School bus
Northern Virginia

Overheard by: Alanna

Mom, oblivious to sons sliding on ice through parking lot: So, I guess we want a tree that’s really tall, but not too wide…
Lady, wincing every time boys slide near a moving car: Wow, those two must be a handful, huh?
Mom: Oh, yeah. Actually, I have three, but the youngest is at home because he broke his neck and he’s too hard to cart around.

Syracuse, New York

Surgeon #1: … So I told him, ‘If you just stop putting it in your ass, you won’t have that problem!’
Surgeon #2: Yeah.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Man: I’ve got basically everything I need — I’ve got the lentils and the sauce. All I need is the methadone and a babysitter.

Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Gavin