Massachusetts

Drunk girl: I’m lubed up from my fingertips to my elbow!

99 Restaurant bar
Salem, Massachusetts

Overheard by: sam-a-lamb

Mother: See that stone sculpture? The lion is attacking the poor man underneath it. The man may get eaten up by the lion!
Eight-year-old daughter: Go, lion!
Mother: No, no, no, no!

www.talovich.blogspot.com

Overheard by: Yugan

Professor on first day of class: I used to go around and have everyone tell me their name, year, and what they hope to get from taking this class, but I decided that frankly, I don’t actually care.

Digital Media Class, Boston College
Boston, Massachusetts

Customer: I want that shirt. The one with the cool-looking gun on it.
Employee: Gun? Dude, that’s Florida…

Boston, Massachusetts

Disappointed wife: Hi. I’d like to exchange these really nice-colored dress shirts for these really boring dress shirts. I had my husband try on the lilac, and it looked great. He said he would never wear it because it made him look gay. I said, ‘First of all, you’ll never be attractive enough to pass for a gay man…!’

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Express Customer

Guy to girl: Hey, remember when my grandfather went through that phase where he wanted us to be Jewish?
Passerby: It’s overrated.
Guy: … What?
Passerby: Being Jewish — it’s overrated. There’s a lot of baggage.

Public Gardens
Boston, Massachusetts

Preppy girl: Oh my god, I have, like, two wives. I think I have a husband… I used to have a boyfriend and two wives.
Guy: That seems to happen to a lot of people…

Amherst, Massachusetts

Overheard by: shiny

Scottish woman to bald Brit: If you get her number, I’m buying you a bed-in-a-bag.

Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Northeastern University girl: I’m so nervous about that Economics test…
Northeastern University guy: Oh, that? That class is so easy. You just have to go to class.
Northeastern University girl: See, if I go to class, I get confused and don’t get it, so I don’t bother going anymore.

39 bus
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: let me clue you in

Girl behind counter: Someone needs to tape his ass together, because he is loose. He is like grandma-and-whiskey loose.

Tattoo parlor
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overheard by: switching to vodka