Questions

Adult woman to girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter: Oh honey! You got your knees all skinned up with boo boos! What happened?
Six-year-old girl, shrugging: Oh, you know… Boys.

South 4th St
Louisville , Kentucky

70-something woman to 80-something woman: Oh hello, so you’re still alive?!

Wloclawek
Poland

Overheard by: renia

Boy holding a box of revolutionary war army men: Mom, who won this war?
Mom: Y’know, I’m not sure.

Craft Store
Wisconsin

Student: I just have a question about the alphabet.

Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York

Teacher: In a representative democracy, if you don’t like who’s in office, what can you do?
Student: Impeach him!
Teacher: Well, that’s too drastic, what else?
Same student: Assassination?

9th Grade World Geography Class
Houston, Texas

Overheard by: amused teacher’s aide

Freshman #1: So… where is he from?
Freshman #2: He’s from the part of Georgia where they ass-rape you.

Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri

Overheard by: New Yorker hopefully about to graduate

Pilot: Before we start our ascent, an important question: Anyone here from the North Allegheny high school class of ’68? [silence] I always ask. I’m hoping at some point I’ll find my old girlfriend.

JetBlue flight
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Ladle

Blonde #1: I saw a church sign the other day that said “Let Jesus be a part of your rainbow.” Isn’t that, like, gay?
Blonde #2: Maybe you’re supposed to think about Jesus when you’re having gay sex.
Blonde #1: Ohhh… I get it now.

Piscataway, New Jersey

Overheard by: …. I don’t think anyone gets it.

Preppy brunette on cell: So did you hear? Hillary won the primaries yesterday! [Pause.] Wait, you mean there’s more than one?

JMU Bookstore
Harrisonburg, Virginia

Overheard by: baffled

Girl #1: It was cause and effect, he bit me on my hip.
Girl #2: So you slept with him?

Kalamazoo, Mississippi