Girl #1: That library isn’t much help at all.
Girl #2: Yeah, I buy my own books. Libraries are only good for poor people that want to read.
Columbia, Maryland
Overheard by: Courtney
Girl #1: That library isn’t much help at all.
Girl #2: Yeah, I buy my own books. Libraries are only good for poor people that want to read.
Columbia, Maryland
Overheard by: Courtney
High school boy: Damn, this is the part where we go over the ocean! I hate this shit! Every day going over the ocean! Shit!
Yellow Line train crossing the Potomac
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Not afraid of the Potomac
Chick: Can I have a hot chocolate, please?
Cafe worker: What size?
Chick: Hot.
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/12/big-honking-update.html
Overheard by: anonymous
Blonde: You know, it’s like the story of Ferdinand!
Brunette: How does my relationship have anything to do with Ferdinand, the king of Spain?!
Blonde: No! Ferdinand the bull! The classic children’s book! What kind of best friend are you? You know I wouldn’t know anything about the king of Spain!
Charlotte, North Carolina
TA: You’ll need a watch to keep track of how long your stories are.
Sorostitute: I have one!
TA: Is it analog or digital?
Sorosititute, after looking at watch for a few seconds: … It has diamonds!
Broadcasting Journalism lab, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Overheard by: Don’t rush for HER sorority
Boyfriend: You want to hang out after your last class?
Girlfriend: I can’t. I have to get a Tetris shot.
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Emily
Stoner: Yo, that chick was kind of hot. She was starin’ at me.
Hipster: She wasn’t hot, and she was staring at you because you were in her way.
Stoner: I like it my way better.
Millersville University
Millersville, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Steveo
30-ish lady: What grade are you in?
Little girl: Third grade. I can do math problems.
30-ish lady: Okay, well, if you have three dogs, two cats and four fish, how many animals do you have, total?
Little girl: … Ummm, nine.
30-ish lady: Well, yeah, sort of… If you count fish as animals, but really they’re amphibians.
Movie theater
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: ak
Guy: Hello, pot, this is the kettle! You’re black!
Girl: I am not black. What are you talking about?
Guy: It’s a metaphor. Do you know what a metaphor is?
Girl: Yes — it’s a giant flaming rock that comes out of the sky. You never make any sense.
Seattle, Washington
Bimbette #1: So, like, he was talking about how, like — I don’t remember what it’s called, but like, the girl knows her parents do stuff that, like, she can’t do, like sex, so she, like, hates her mom, because she wants her dad like that, and like, she wants to kill her mom, but she knows that if she does, then, like, her dad will be mad at her, so she doesn’t do it, so she tries to be like her mom, because, like, her dad likes her mom.
Bimbette #2: I don’t get it.
Ladies’ room, UC Merced
Merced, California
