Offers and requests

Girl #1 (super cheerfully): I learned that from Spiderman 3!
Girl #2: Gah! (quietly, while walking away) Why don't you just shut up?
Girl #1 (whining under her breath): Why don't you listen to meeeeeeee?

Pottery Class, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Just Me

Flight attendant: Please refrain from smoking for the rest of your life.

Flight over Denver, Colorado

Female student #1: Can you ride me piggyback after class?
Female student #2: Can *he* ride *you* after class?
Female student #1, giggling: That's not what I meant!
Male student: Wait, don't you have, like, 20 cats?
Female student #1: (slaps him)
Female student #2: You do have a lot of cats…

Simmons College
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Yoshi

Brunette girl: So like, if I had a mustache, would you tell me?
Tall blonde friend: Of course, would you tell me?
Brunette: Totally.
Tall blonde: I totally have a mustache?!
Brunette: No, no, no…I would totally tell you if you did, but you don't!
Tall blonde: Oh, okay.
(several seconds pass, they sip drinks)
Tall blonde: So we're having topless sleepover at my place tonight, right?

Red Maple
Baltimore, Maryland

Gay guy, gesturing at transvestite performing onstage: I don't want to see any more boobs. Show me the dicks!
Gay friends, approving: We want dicks!

DNA Lounge
San Francisco, California

Mother (giving four-year-old a children’s bible): Here, find Jesus for mommy.

Doctor’s Office
Ashland, Kentucky

Overheard by: Lola

Huge gangsta boy: Maaaan, gimme a hug!
Preppy white friend: What?! No!
Huge gansta boy: What the fuck, man, just gimme a goddam hug!

High School
Nashville, Tennessee

Eight-year-old kid in line for Universal Studios park ticket: I know how to get a discount ticket.
Eight-year-old friend: How?
Eight-year-old kid: You get your friend to come along with you, then you stab him in the neck and say “My friend’s dying, can we have discount tickets?”

Universal Studios
Los Angeles, California

Urinetown: The Musical in a Nutshell

Boy to friends: C'mon, we're going to watch Johnny pee!

New Jersey

Overheard by: CS

Middle-aged woman shopping with husband: If we weren't so old, I would say “let's go into the parking lot and make a baby.”

Target
Hackensack, New Jersey