Indian entrepreneur: I am tired of listening to people talking. I want to listen to me talking.
http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/05/internal-dialogue.html
Overheard by: rich
Indian entrepreneur: I am tired of listening to people talking. I want to listen to me talking.
http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/05/internal-dialogue.html
Overheard by: rich
Guy #1: We had to read Catcher in the Rye and Uncle Tom's Cabin last year! It was ridiculous!
Guy #2: Aren't they the same story?
Fauquier High
Warrenton, Virginia
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Black lady #1, after riding Superman: Did you sit on them tree sides?
Black lady #2: No, I didn't.
Black lady #1: You should've! You could see them motherfuckin' trees! And I was like “what the fuck!” I mean, I was cussing my ass off!
Black lady #2: So that was you?
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Emma
Girl on phone: So, we had this bet that if the Patriots won, we were going to break up, so we were both hoping for that. But that didn’t happen, so now we’re just kind of stuck together.
Seattle, Washington
Eight-year-old girl standing on shopping carriage to mother 15 feet away: Do not leave your child unattended! (slight pause) Mom! Get over here!
Wal-Mart
Seabrook, New Hampshire
Overheard by: Amanda
Young girl, spraying perfume: These smell yucky. Who actually buys these, Mom?
Mom: Put those down. Those are for prostitutes.
Macy’s
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: ChasingDori
American guy #1: Fuck, here I am, sitting on top of some fucking sandmountain in the goddam desert in Chile, god knows how far away from home, to watch some goddam sunset! And I'm not even on my fucking own, or with some hot chick. I'm sitting here with severeal hundred other people. It's such a fucking waste. It's kinda like sitting all alone in the movie theater, and then some dickhead comes and sits down next too you.
American guy #2: Yeah, I did that once!
American guy #1: I hate you. (walks away).
San Pedro de Attacama
Chile
Overheard by: Hege
Young boy: I’m so hungry! Mom, I’m so hungry I could eat you! I’m so hungry I could eat a fat girl!
Mother: Don’t call people fat, that isn’t nice.
Young boy: I didn’t mean you.
Yavapai Regional Medical Center
Prescott, Arizona
Lonely grad student: I need to get to work so I can stop thinking about Janet Reno’s naked body.
Court of Sciences, UCLA
Los Angeles, California
