Girl #1: Can I ask you something?
Girl #2: Is it about your new dog?
Girl #1: No.
Girl #2: Is it about John?
Girl #1: No…
Girl #2: Is it about work?
Girl #1: Have you ever heard of a rhetorical question?!
Girl #2: Oh, wow, I would not have guessed you were going to ask me that…
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Katy
Girl on cell: I would've loved to have gone to that socks summit. It sounds amazing!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Me, too?
Girl, paying for something: Oh. hang on, I have more money in my butt.
Amherst, Massachusetts
Professor: It was all sex, drugs, and rock and roll back then… But I wasn’t doing much of that because I was too busy getting my PhD so I could teach at Brandeis.
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
Overheard by: lala
Girl in bar: He’s a big, harmless teddy bear who has sex with people in their sleep.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Mike K
Hobo: Hey, can you spare some change?
Girl: I don't have change, but I do have this muffin.
Hobo: Can't buy no weed with a muffin!
Boston, Massachusetts
Hyper girl: He smokes more cigarettes than a chimney!
Main Street
Northampton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: velvin
Girl #1: Oh my god! Look at the little toddler snowsuits!
Girl #2: Will one of you please get knocked up?
Amherst, Massachusetts
Girl (looking at her graded essay): My professor said, “good use of comma.” What on earth does that mean?
Guy: I don't know… We do go to Suffolk. Maybe he was just impressed that you knew how to use a comma correctly.
Suffolk University
Boston, Massachusetts
Small boy: They used to shove a big bar of soap right down your throat! But that’s illegal now.
Small girl: Like, if you say ‘poop,’ or if you say ‘hell‘?
Small boy, thinking deeply: I’ve got to research it.
Third grade classroom
Newton, Massachusetts
