Gossip

Bimbette: I don’t know… I just feel something swimming around inside of me!

http://overheardatlc.blogspot.com/2007/06/its-spitting-image.html

Little boy to parents: Nuh-uhhh! I only got thrown up on that one time!

http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com/2007/04/youre_still_young.html

Overheard by: alexis

Jesuits: Eeexcellent…!

Girl to another: She pulls the virgin card all the time, but she's such a slut.

North Dakota State University

Overheard by: Chelsea

Woman #1: I fell down the stairs yesterday.
Woman #2: Oh my god! Me, too! What happened?
Woman #1: I don’t know. I just fell.
Woman #2: I guess I’m a little better than you — a possum was chasing me.

Target
Virginia

50-something woman to friend: She's got a phenomenal voice–when she sings, it's like she has gills instead of lungs.

http://www.violaraptor.co.uk/2007/12/quotebook-2007/

Overheard by: Raptor

30-something gay man to friend: I don't know if he is gay or not, but he worked at Starbucks and he had a lisp.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Overheard by: Peter Piper

Princess at front of bus: … And I went through seven laptops in high school.
Passenger: Oh, yeah? I went through ten laptops in high school!
Princess, offended: It’s rude to eavesdrop, you know!

5 bus
San Francisco, California

Hoochie: Yeah, I don’t know, but Josh and I totally hooked up for a while last year.
Friend: What? Why?!
Hoochie: What do you mean, ‘Why’? Josh is hot.
Friend: Dude, hooking up with Josh is like hanging a sign on your vagina that says, ‘Come on in, chlamydia.’ If I was looking for a communicable disease, Josh is the first place I’d go.
Hoochie: Oh…

California State University-Chico
Chico, California

Overheard by: Kimberly

Punk gesticulating wildly to friends: Unlike Europeans, they have to earn their souls… And they never do, man, they never do!

Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overheard by: wtf?!

Roomie #1: I wonder what ever happened to James*. I mean, we haven’t seen him since fifth grade. I hope he’s not in a mental home or something — him and his weird mom. Maybe he’s finally doing what he’s always wanted to do: work with dinosaurs.
Roomie #2: Yeah, or living with them.
Roomie #1: That is sooo true.

Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey

Overheard by: i love dinosaurs