Dad: Why are you wearing your sunglasses inside?
Nine-year-old boy: I don’t know… ‘Cause I feel like it.
Dad: Well, take them off. You’re not a gangster, pimp, or high… yet.
Chinook Theatre
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Hannah
Dad: Why are you wearing your sunglasses inside?
Nine-year-old boy: I don’t know… ‘Cause I feel like it.
Dad: Well, take them off. You’re not a gangster, pimp, or high… yet.
Chinook Theatre
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Hannah
Black student, casually: Wait, let me get this straight: he was going to participate, but he was late, so he decided to hate, and that’s what started this debate?
Teacher, baffled: Did you just rap that at me?
Columbia College Fiction Department
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: flunk_punk
Girl: Where you going?
Guy: I am gonna go get tested for AIDS!
Girl: What?
Guy: You know, HIV! It's free!
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
Frat boy: Hypothetically speaking, if you were on your period, would you invite a guy to go home with you? Like, if it was your third day and you weren’t having a very heavy flow?
Sorority girl: Justin, this doesn’t sound very hypothetical.
University of Iowa Library
Iowa City, Iowa
Male student: So there was a hobo on the train and he sat next to me and he was like, “me no wah”. So I was like, “what?” and he just said “me no wah!” so I was really confused and then I realized I had my backpack, so I gave him a pen and a paper and he wrote “m-e n-o w-a-h.” So I was really mad and was like, “dude, that was supposed to clear things up,” but it didn't.
Female student: Word.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Overheard by: Kelli
Blonde: Oh, I’ve heard of that restaurant! Where is it at?
Boyfriend: No, ‘where is it’?
Blonde: No, that’s what I’m asking you! Where’s it at?
Boyfriend, shaking head and sighing: It’s by the mall. This is ridiculous.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Overheard by: Cringing English major
Boy #1: Dude, you know what the best time to get high would be? Right before temple.
Boy #2: No, dude, it's Yom Kippur. You'll be so hungry…
Private High School
New York, New York
Overheard by: so many things wrong with this
Panicked child, between gasps: Why… do I… keep… burping?
Vancouver
Canadia
Bimbette in line for concert: Wait, like, when is New Year's Eve? Is it the 30th or the 31st?
Boyfriend: It's the 30th. New Year's Day is the 31st.
Chain Reaction
Anaheim, California
Overheard by: oldest person at the show
Girl #1: Do you think anyone’s like… Actually a good person?
[long pause]Girl #2: Ugh, my stomach really hurts today.
Drew University
Madison, New Jersey
