Massachusetts

Stoned girl #1, eating mint cookie: This tastes like Oreos.
Stoned girl #2: This isn't Oreos! It's… Oxford Creme cookie.
Stoned girl #1: Sounds like a pretentious Oreo to me.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Curly

Gay white male, exiting train: I can only go ten stops without smoking a cigarette, otherwise I get angry!
Old black female, entering train: Damn, mo' sugar in here than a tank of Kool-Aid.

Orange Line
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Cryptic C62

Loud woman on phone: Who is this? Who is this? Who is this? (pause) You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid… (keeps repeating it)

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: timmmm

Math professor #1: Don't derive like my brother.
Math professor #2: No, don't derive like my brother!

Northampton, Massachusetts

Overheard by: TARDIS Dyke

Girl to friends, on third night of semester: Wouldn't you want to have sex the second night back?

Fitchburg State University
Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Teen girl to friend: It's called “iced tea.” It tastes like tea, but it's cold.

Green Line Subway
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Rob

Physical therapy student: So he's gotten a *lot* more fit in the last 300 years, right?

Simmons College
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Yoshi

Beggar #1: Spare change?
Beggar #2: Hey, I haven't seen you in a while.
Beggar #1: I just got back from California.

Boston, Massachusetts

Nursing lab instructor: You don't go down when you're suctioning.

College
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Yoshi

Girl on cell: They had Greenland and Iceland on the test. (pause) Yeah, apparently they're two different things. (pause) I dunno, Greenland is the cold one, or something. (pause) Yeah, I think it was unfair, too.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Ginger