Stoned guy: Stairs are really dangerous!
Stoned girl: Yeah! I don’t know why we have them…
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Stoned guy: Stairs are really dangerous!
Stoned girl: Yeah! I don’t know why we have them…
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Professor: So, I can see that some of you try to care about my feelings, and others don't give a fig.
Student #1: Whoa! Could you not use such harsh vegetables?
(entire class goes silent)
Student #2: I didn't know a “fig” was a vegetable.
Student #3: I thought it was a grape. A dried grape.
Johnson & Wales University
Providence, Rhode Island
American tourist, overlooking Grand Canal: It's like… It's just like Las Vegas!
Venice
Italy
Overheard by: Pumpkin and Peanut
Woman in line to another: Yeah, my brother’s birthday is tomorrow. He’s Aryan.
Wal-Mart
Tracy, California
Overheard by: Jeff
Student #1: I told my dad I wanted to be famous, and he told me I should kill someone. I was like, seven.
Student #2: At least he's supportive.
Philedelphia University, Pennsylvania
Drunk girl #1: I totally feel like there’s going to be an earthquake any day now.
Drunk girl #2: I know, this is totally earthquake weather.
Santa Monica, California
Overheard by: made my next round a double
Tourist woman to wheelchair-bound local: Can you point me in the right direction?
Wheelchair-bound local: Yep, it's straight down that way.
Tourist woman: Okay…but is it walkable?
St. Lawrence Market
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: kingdubby
Child: Why are we landing in Baltimore?
Mom: We switch planes there on the way home to Phoenix.
Child: What state is Baltimore in?
Mom: Um, let me think [picks up airline magazine to look at route map]. ‘Baltimore/Washington.’ Well, that doesn’t make any sense.
Southwest Airlines flight from Buffalo to Baltimore
Harvard student to another: Okay, so I was thinking in my brain…
Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: non-ivy-leaguer
