Professor, trying to motivate class: Sometimes, you just need to…to look up, and…and smell…the big picture.
Carleton University
Ottawa
Canadia
Professor, trying to motivate class: Sometimes, you just need to…to look up, and…and smell…the big picture.
Carleton University
Ottawa
Canadia
Traveling college student to perplexed Cambodian waiter: What? You don’t have French toast? Weren’t you guys colonized by the French or something?
Restaurant
Phom Penh
Cambodia
Student #1: There are an infinite number of answers?!
AP calc teacher: Yeah, there are.
Student #2: Do you want us to write them all down?
High School
Boiceville, New York
Overheard by: Toasted
(at 4:30 pm)
College girl #1: Well, we could go get dinner now, but it's really early for that.
College guy: Well, it's not too early if you are old.
College girl #2: Yeah, they always start rolling into the restaurant about this time.
College girl #1: Really? I can't wait to be old!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/363289326/it-happens-earlier-than-you-think.html
Overheard by: I'm not in that big of a rush
Philosophy teacher: Nowadays we see faith as blind belief. Is that fair to say?
Blind student: No.
Philosophy teacher: Right, why?
Blind student: I never believe anything blindly.
Santa Ana College
California
Overheard by: Frankie1way
Grad student #1: That waiter is wearing a toupée!
Grad student #2: No, he isn’t!
Grad student #1: Yes, he is! Some people have gay-dar — I have toupée-dar!
5 Points South
Birmingham, Alabama
Overheard by: Eric
Student, during class: Are we talking about real prostitutes or a guy who duct tapes everything back and puts a skirt on?
Stockton College
New Jersey
Overheard by: Charlie
Girl student: Her family is so weird.
Guy student: How so?
Girl student: Her dad, like, goes in her backyard and catches squirrels.
Guy student, after long pause: Wait, what does he do with them?
Girl student: Raises them?
Starbucks
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Ashlie
Dude #1: We win. Majority rules.
Chick: But Erin* agrees with me! It’s a tie!
Dude #1: Yeah, but you’re women. No one cares about your opinion.
Dude #2: Unless you could put it in some sort of sandwich form.
High school classroom
Englewood, Colorado
Chick #1: Well, Michelle got pissed because he touched her boob.
Chick #2: Normally I’d take her side, but Michelle is just so… gropable!
Queen’s University at Kingston
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: I’ll never teee-eeell!
