Blonde student to astronomy professor: Can you tell me approximately how many stars there are in our solar system?
Wheaton College
Wheaton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Amycakes
Blonde student to astronomy professor: Can you tell me approximately how many stars there are in our solar system?
Wheaton College
Wheaton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Amycakes
Thug #1: Why the hell are you going all the way to back of the train car? Why don’t we sit in the front like that Martha Stewart woman?
Thug #2: What the fuck are you talking about Martha Stewart?
Thug #1: You know, she stood up for herself on the bus? Wait, who was that? Not Martha Stewart?
Orange Line at Downtown Crossing
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: drunkbigirls
Three-year-old girl: Can I open this?
Dad: No. There are two hundred and fifty matches in there, and they’re going to fall all over the place.
Three-year-old girl: But I promise I won’t eat them.
Harvest Co-Op
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dude to chick: Let’s just go to a bar, sit down, drink some scotch, and be apathetic.
Inman Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hobo to pretty girl walking by: You remind me of Mona Lisa! Man, I wish I were that pretty!
Mass Ave
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Michelle
Girl to friend: We're under a bridge! I feel like a crack dealer.
Midsummer Common
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Anti-Math
Black girl on one side: We look like an Oreo!
White girl in middle (jokingly): Oh, is that a race thing?
Black girl on the other side: Yes.
Outside Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Five-year-old girl, happily: … And then I did it! I peed right in my pants!
Mom: Honey, you shouldn’t be proud of something like that. You should be embarrassed.
Five-year-old girl, even happier: Oh, okay! I’m embarrassed!
Whole Foods
Hadley, Massachusetts
Overheard by: velvin
Teen boy: Tell me something I don’t know.
Mom: I’m not your real mother!
Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Ashley
Chick: Hey, congratulations! I heard you was gonna be a father.
Guy: Yeah, she’s due in, like, three months.
Chick: Donna is gonna be so jealous. She wanted to be your baby-mama.
Guy: She still can be — I been waitin’ on that girl forever.
Green Line E train
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: vangundy
