Gripes

Liberated woman: I don’t know what I’ll do until I get married… I’m just so not into, like, doing taxes and stuff.

http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/05/classes-done.html

Overheard by: disillusioned

Drunk girl: I don’t need a man. I need a sex toy. Shit, I got carpal finger.

433 4th Street
Columbus, Indiana

13-year-old goth boy: Hey! You look like a hippie!
Hippie: Yeah…
13-year-old goth boy, offering hand: My name’s Jason*. I thought I should introduce myself since I said you looked like a hippie and all.
Hippie: Okay…
13-year-old goth boy: You know, you look like a Tim. I’ve got a friend named Tim who looks just like you, only his face is mousier.
13-year-old goth girl: Oh. My. God! That’s it! No snowball for you!
13-year-old goth boy: Christ! I can’t play with dead squirrels, I can’t talk to the hippie…! What the hell can I do?!

Snowball stand
Stewartstown, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Amused Girlfriend

Sorority girl: Guys! Anybody! Help! I just woke up on a couch and I can’t find my jacket, my purse, my shoes, my phone, my wallet, or my gays!

Sorority house
Texas

Suit to another: She’s no fun with her shoes on.

Boston Common
Boston, Massachusetts

Chick #1: Girl, get off me. You know I don’t like hookers.
Chick #2: Yeah, well, I don’t like Chinese people.
Chick #1: Do I look Chinese to you?
Chick #2: I was just letting you know.

http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/

Teen daughter screaming hysterically: Daddy, if you loved me you would have gotten me business class!
Ruffled dad: Are you fuckin’ kidding me?

Logan International Terminal
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: feeling conflicted in steerage

Short, round, drunk girl with British accent: I have to pee! I just hate walking by all these apartments knowing they all have working toilets!

Manhattan, New York

Guy in leopard-print cowboy hat to woman holding homemade desserts and guy in yarmulke: I've been eating nothing but crap all week and every time I say I don't want to eat anymore! Someone put a brownie in front of me!

Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Burbgirl

Young girl from bathroom stall: Mom! There's no toilet paper in here!
Mother: I'd say that represents a failure in planning on your part.

Toronto
Canadia