Mom to cashier: And we'll have a water.
Little girl: But I want Pepsi!
Mom: We're getting water Pepsi!
Little girl: Yaaaaay!
Mom, winking at amused cashier: When you have kids of your own, water Pepsi is the greatest invention ever.
Medford, Oregon
Mom to cashier: And we'll have a water.
Little girl: But I want Pepsi!
Mom: We're getting water Pepsi!
Little girl: Yaaaaay!
Mom, winking at amused cashier: When you have kids of your own, water Pepsi is the greatest invention ever.
Medford, Oregon
Professor, talking about Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Well, Sebastian and Antonio have a pretty interesting relationship. It's kind of like, uh, what's the word…a bromance! It's kind of like a bromance.
Michigan State University
Indian guy: Dude…what if Shakespeare was Jesus?
Bellingham, Washington
Drunk girl: So she was teaching him Ebonics, and he was teaching her Yiddish…
Parish Cafe
Boston, Massachusetts
Woman #1: You know what I learned the other day? Social Darwinism.
(awkward pause)
Woman #2: Really? How's that working for you?
Woman #1: Well, it sure explains a lot.
Library, Arcadia University
Glenside, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Xander
Customer looking up at menu board: Umm, I'll have the “German chock a lotta cock.”
(girl scooping ice cream looks horrified)
Customer, now pointing: The “German chock a lotta cock.” It's right there.
Ice cream girl: It's pronounced “German chocolate cake.”
Cold Stone Creamery
Fountain Valley, California
Overheard by: RL
Butch-looking 20-something: I always have Bud Select, and I know it makes me look so butch.
Femme-looking 20-something: No, I don't think Bud Select is butch…I mean, I drink Bud Select.
Butch-looking 20-something: Yeah, but seriously, I know I look like a lesbian, and the Bud Select doesn't help.
Iowa
Overheard by: I assumed they were on a date
Girl #1: Why the heck is her name “Brezelle”?
Girl #2: Well, she's African.
Girl #1: Oh.
Temple University, Pennsylvania
Girl #1: What does he look like?
Girl #2: The same way he looked when he was Catherine.
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Massachusetts
Girl #1, leaving the mall: Go to Aero… Ari… Aristotle.
Girl #2: Aristotle is not the same thing as Aeropostale.
Girl #1: Then where did I…?
Girl #2 (interrupting): History. You learned about Aristotle in history.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Overheard by: Ashley