Offers and requests

Conductor: This train will terminate at Stratford. The next station is Waterloo. Please change here for the Bakerloo, Northern and Waterloo & City lines. Alternatively you can also change for Waterloo International, catch the next Eurostar, go to Paris and show the French how to play rugby.

London
England

Overheard by: kat

Customer: I’d like some tea… Organic mint, please.
Barista: Okay, we have organic lemon and organic Earl Grey.
Customer: Um… Actually, I wanted the organic mint.
Barista: Oh, we have that, too.
Customer: Okay, then. That’s the one I’ll have.

Design Coffee shop, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Just Me

Little girl: (talking over airport announcement)
Father: Quiet for a second!
Girl: (continues talking until announcement is over)
Father: Great. What if he was saying “Run! Zombies!”? We'll be sitting here like idiots while the zombies come…

O'Hare Airport
Chicago, Illinois

Man to store employee: It's one of those real estate investment books, the yellow ones.
Employee: Let's see, follow me… Is this what you were looking for?
Man: No, no, that's the one for idiots, I want the one for dummies.

Barnes & Noble
San Diego, California

Overheard by: Lisa

Vendor: Buy some water! I’ll teach you how to dance!

Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Seraphina

Quiet, intense, plain chubby girl to skinny guy with child-molester mustache: When you fuck me, choke me.

Leamington Spa
England

Overheard by: Blee

Yoga lady: I mean, really: just give me the Eskimo sex, not the cannibalism.

Powell's Bookstore
Portland, Oregon

Overheard by: kate

Girl: Look, if I buy you an ice cream, will you stop talking about cannibalism?
Guy: Maybe.

Edinburgh
Scotland

Father with two small sons dressed in Halloween costumes, walking into liquor store: Okay, guys, now pick out the kind of whiskey you want and go put it up on the counter.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Girl to friend: And then this guy, I can't remember his name, he was like “hey, you want some cake?” But I've read his blog and he believes in creationism, so I was like “no, thanks.”

Christchurch
New Zealand