Are You Allowed to Give Me That Advice?

Student, yelling at no one in particular: I can't believe this stupid book is $52! It's a fuckin' softcover 40-page book!
Bookstore employee: Dude, just photocopy it and return it.
Student: Ohhh! Good idea! Thanks!

Bookstore
Los Angeles, California

Posted on June 6, 2009
Advice, Books, California, Default, Employees, Gripes, Money, Stores, Students

And the Third Is to Ask If We Watched America's Next Top Model Last Night!

Blond on cell: She doesn't call us in six months and when she does, the first call is to tell us that her boyfriend is dead on some motel floor, and the second call is that her mom is dead on the sofa!

Houston, Texas

Posted on May 16, 2009
Death & dying, Default, Family ties, Girls, Gripes, Relationships, Texas

But It Came with the ESP Feature

Teen guy #1: Fuck, my girlfriend hasn't texted me back in over two hours!
Teen guy #2: Do you even have your phone on you?
Teen guy #1: No, it's in the car.

Upper Hutt
New Zealand

Overheard by: Schmitty

Posted on April 30, 2009
Default, Gripes, Guys, New Zealand, Questions, Relationships, Teens, Texting

Those Lean Cuisine Commercials Have Rocked Our Society to the Core

Girl #1: You know, thanks for listening to my problems. I know you've got a lot of your own, and they're totally worse than mine.
Girl #2: Dude! My problems are like…I had really crappy Chinese for dinner four hours ago shit. Your problems are just like, you had chicken and a salad for dinner last night shit. It's totally cool.

East Tennessee

Overheard by: yeah? well i had lasagna for dinner.

Posted on April 2, 2009
Birds, Compare and contrast, Default, Food, Girls, Gripes, Tennessee

Isn't That Like Telling a Starving Person “I Am Stuffed“?

Hot girl to less than hot guy: It gets annoying having guys hitting on you all the time.

Seattle, Washington

Posted on March 20, 2009
Default, Feelings, Girls, Gripes, Sexuality, Washington

I've Barely Clotted from the Last Time

Socially awkward math professor: And now I will attempt to get the same solution using method #2, and if I don't get the same answer, I'm just going to go slit my wrists. (writes on the board for a few minutes, gets a different answer) Well, shit.

University of New Brunswick
New Brunswick
Canadia

Overheard by: yeah, multivariable calculus does that to me, to

Posted on March 10, 2009
Canadia, Colleges & Universities, Compare and contrast, Default, Education, Gripes, Teachers, Words

I've Got Just Those Two Settings

Guy: We're cool now.
Girl: What?
Guy: I said we're cool now.
Girl: Oh, yeah, I know. That's why I smiled at you instead of slitting my throat.

Point Park University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: ZB

Posted on March 8, 2009
Colleges & Universities, Compare and contrast, Default, Girls, Gripes, Guys, Pennsylvania, Questions

The Main Problem Is the Language Barrier

Young man: I love living in Honolulu, but everything's so expensive. I can barely afford just to live. It's actually pretty common to buy milk for eight dollars a gallon!
20-something girl: Wow! Really? What's the exchange rate there?
Young man (looking rather baffled): It's about one to one.
20-something girl: Oh, well, that's not too bad.

Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: Brian