Mother crossing street with three-year-old daughter: Molly*, stay in the crosswalk. Stay in the crosswalk! Molly! You are not in New York City!
Southern Village
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Overheard by: staying between the lines
Mother crossing street with three-year-old daughter: Molly*, stay in the crosswalk. Stay in the crosswalk! Molly! You are not in New York City!
Southern Village
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Overheard by: staying between the lines
Girl #1: So, what’s your idea of the perfect guy?
Girl #2: Oh, I know what she’ll say! Jesus.
Girl #3, blushing: She’s right.
Girl #1, rolling eyes: Ugh! But you can’t go down on Jesus… can you?
Franklin, North Carolina
Overheard by: J-Bake-Oh
Professor: The Kaiser was not the worst leader Germany had in the twentieth century.
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
Excited girl on cell: So, I’m sorry to wake you, but do you still wear those crazy socks? Or do you only wear white ones?
K-Mart
North Carolina
Student: I’m so angry about having to pay for social security and all that crap when I’m never going to see it myself. Heck, my parents won’t even see it! They can’t retire until they’re like eighty. This country sucks! I’m moving to Iran.
Art studio, East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
Teacher: I love you, Daniel*, and I love you, Jacob*, and I love you, Madison*.
Class clown: Do you love me?
Teacher: I like you.
Class clown, after class stops laughing: So you don’t love me?
Teacher: I try to love you — I really do.
Durham School of the Arts
Durham, North Carolina
Man with camera: No, smile. There’s no frowning allowed on MySpace anymore. It’s a rule. If you want your picture there, you have to smile.
Six-year-old son: Okay.
Man, to other young son: And you — be serious. No, not like that. Beyond serious. Like you lost your dog — that serious. No, even more — like you lost your truck!
Ice rink
Asheville, North Carolina
Girl on cell: … And don’t let her dress you in drag — she likes doing that.
Asheville, North Carolina
College dude on cell: It will be the same thing — we’ll go out drinking, she’ll drink too much, she’ll cry on my shirt, and then she’ll pass out and I’ll have to carry her home. Happens every time… Because, dude, she’s my girlfriend. It’s what we do… Because! It’s what everyone does.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Overheard by: not his girlfriend
Older woman: So, I was at my parents’ house this weekend and there were some condoms sitting on the table…
Friend: What?
Older woman: Yeah. So I asked my mom, ‘Why do you need condoms?’ And she said, ‘It’s for easier clean up.’
Friend: Gross!
Older woman: Yeah… So that’s why I stopped asking my parents questions.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Overheard by: Emily I
