Child: Who’s Elvis?
Mother, not paying attention: I don’t know.
Concerned old lady nearby, to mother: You don’t know who Elvis is, honey?
Cincinnati, Ohio
Child: Who’s Elvis?
Mother, not paying attention: I don’t know.
Concerned old lady nearby, to mother: You don’t know who Elvis is, honey?
Cincinnati, Ohio
Professor: The Swedes. They look at the glaciers, go inside, watch a Bergman film, have a heavy drink, then have some sex in the sauna, but ultimately that is unsatisfying, so they kill themselves.
Oberlin, Ohio
Overheard by: Secret Spy
Frat boy to sky: Where is the pussy in this world?!
Athens, Ohio
Overheard by: Lisa
Brunette: And then he called me back ten minutes later and told me his brother got his girlfriend pregnant, and she's like sixteen or something.
Blonde: Is he mad his brother and his girlfriend hooked up?
Brunette: He's got more serious issues dating a child and shit.
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
Four-year-old in shopping cart: Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda! (repeated over and over)
Mom: Stop that! Stop saying that!
Four-year-old: (continues)
Mom: You don't even know what that means! Just because you don't know what something means doesn't mean you can just repeat it like that. (turns to man behind her in line) I don't know where he gets this stuff.
Four-year-old: I heard it from you, crazy!
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: Lindsay
Professor: What did our founding fathers want? Who cares? They’re dead.
Oberlin, Ohio
Overheard by: Secret Spy
Freshman boy #1: Are you a man now?
Freshman boy #2: Yeah.
Freshman boy #3: It was that fast?
Outside Beaver [all girl’s dorm], Denison University
Granville, Ohio
Overheard by: L. A. DiLalla
White trash woman on cell: Yeah, she OD'ed, right? I just got out of jail for murder. “Your mom died of overdose” is what she told her. You need to stop telling people all this, I could get locked up for a long time. You told Heather and everybody, she knew all about what I did. But…I don't know, she said to call her. She's at her house, I guess. Look, you don't do shitty things to people that are there for you, you do shitty things to people that are not there for you.
Computer Science Department
Ohio State University
Overheard by: Now Heather and I are both in on the secret
Man on cell: No, Eileen’s not too happy with me. I filled her refrigerator with waffles… No, I can’t talk about it here.
Public library
Cincinnati, Ohio
