Or Reject Gender Stratification

Five-year boy in front of a door: (frantically) Which one? I have to go!
Exasperated mother: The men’s room.
Little boy: Which one?!
Mother: That one (points) and that’s why you need to learn to read.

Barnes & Noble
Cary, North Carolina

Posted on August 18, 2022
Advice, Default, Education, Kids, Moms, North Carolina, Pee, Questions, Stores, Words

Like, It Takes a Village to Raise a Chomper?

Customer: Do you have any non-fiction books on vampires?

Dymocks Carousel
Perth, Western Australia
Australia

Overheard by: Richard

Posted on August 5, 2022
Australia, Books, Customers, Default, Questions, Stupidity

And Let’s Get Some Chewing Tobacco to Spit

Girl, to two guys smoking in a bar: Oh my gosh! Smoking? Gross! (walks away, disgusted)
Guy #1: You wanna follow her and smoke?
Guy #2: Hell yeah, I do.

Denver, Colorado

Posted on August 4, 2022
Colorado, Default, Girls, Guys, Offers and requests, Questions, Smoking, Wishes

I Guess We Could Try Smoking Them

Teen guy: Yeah, we got like, so wasted!
Teen girl #1: It was great, yeah. We got so high.
Teen girl #2: Where did you guys get the alcohol?
Teen girl #1: What?
Teen girl #2: If you guys were getting high, where did you get the alcohol?
Teen girl #1: That's drunk. You get high off weed.
Teen girl #2: Oh. Okay. Then, where'd you get that?
Teen guy: My sister. She's sixteen!
Teen girl #2: Can't you get high off books?
Teen guy: What?
Teen girl #2: Cause, can't, like…books get you high?
Teen girl #1: What?

Library
East Vancouver, BC
Canadia

Posted on August 3, 2022
Books, Canadia, Default, Drinking & drunks, Drugs, Girls, Guys, Questions, Stores, Teens, Weirdness

At Midnight It Turns Into a Pumpkin

Thug wannabe: Damn, you see that white girl? She got a magic booty.

Mall
Buford, Georgia

Overheard by: girl with the magical booty

Posted on July 28, 2022
Ass, Default, Georgia, Magic, Malls, Questions, Race, Thugs

The Two Major Facets Of Life at the Playboy Mansion

Pissed-off teen: You can't get a bowl of salad but you can wash the dog naked?

Harrison, Michigan

Overheard by: Lauren

Posted on July 27, 2022
Animals, Cleanliness, Compare and contrast, Food, Michigan, Questions, Teens

It’s Pretty Much the Short Bus of Hogwarts

Guy #1: Hey, cool! Harry Potter bookmarks! You think they have one for Hufflepuff?
Guy #2: Probably not.
Guy #1: Oh… Do you think it’s because nobody cares?

Borders
Tucson, Arizona

Posted on July 23, 2022
Arizona, Books, Compare and contrast, Compliments, Default, Guys, Pop culture, Questions

Yes. Yes I Have.

Girl #1: What are those dots underneath the sign?
Girl #2: You're so dumb, haven't you heard of language for the deaf?

Bus Station
Tønsberg
Norway

Overheard by: Håkon

Posted on July 21, 2022
Bus, Europe, Girls, Questions, Stupidity, Words

The Long-Awaited Follow-up to “My Humps”

Little girl #1 (holding a Patrick Star toy): Mommy, mommy! Can I get this?
Scary mom: No.
Little girl #1: Why?
Scary mom: Because last time we bought one of those was the day you had your seizure.
Little girl #1 (running around the store and flapping her arms): My seizure, my seizure!
Little girl #2 (also running and flapping): Your seizure, your seizure!

Kings Island, Ohio

Posted on July 20, 2022
Default, Girls, Health & Hygiene, Kids, Maladies, Moms, Offers and requests, Ohio, Questions, Weirdness

No One in Paris Ever Pees on Walls or Sits on Steps

Enraged Frenchman to woman and son who is discreetly peeing on wall: What is wrong with you? Find a bathroom, this is a business! (starts walking away and then comes to a woman and her teenage daughter sitting on steps) And you two, get out! What are you, from the mountains? (to himself, walking away) Oh my god! I don't believe this!

Fira
Santorini
Greece

Posted on July 18, 2022
Europe, Family, Foreigners, Gripes, Kids, Parents, Pee, Questions, Strangers, Teens

Questions