Stupidity

Large female tourist in plaid bermuda shorts: You know what's wrong with California? Too many windows!

Quincy Market
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Isotope Feeney

Guy among friends: This conversation is too logical for me.

Bar
Norway

Female barista: He's going to Tel Aviv or something. I don't even know where that is.
Male barista: Tel Aviv?
Female barista: Yeah, it's like in Egypt or something, I think.
Male barista: Oh, wait, no, that's the tv station.
Female barista: What?
Male barista: Yeah, it's like their version of the BBC.

Starbucks
Orinda, California

Women studies professor, during discussion about nymphomaniacs: Ladies, are there any of you who are in a constant state of arousal?
Class: (uncomfortable silence)
Professor: Let me rephrase that. Are you constantly ready to engage in sex?
Student, alarmed: Professor, I don't think any of us are comfortable with answering this question.

Saint Peter's College
Jersey City, New Jersey

Posh lady in loud voice: And then they ran out of mineral water! I was devastated… Devastated.

Tilley's Cafe
Canberra
Australia

Overheard by: Trish

Girl: So I hear that all Puerto Rican women are like models.
Guy: What?
Girl: Like they're all really hot and stuff.
Guy: I'm sure some are…
Girl: Yeah, they are, and they wear like thongs and stuff for underwear too.
Guy: I always heard Puerto Rican women were fat.
Girl: No, that's Hawaiian women.
Guy: Oh.

Lecture Hall
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Customer: Do you have any lox?
Wal-Mart employee: Of course. They're over in hardware.
Customer: No. Lox, like bagels and lox.
Wal-Mart employee: Lots? Lots of bagels?
Customer: I'll just go to Publix.

Wal-Mart
Nashville, Tennessee

Overheard by: Heading for Publix, too.

Cute girl #1: Who's Hattie?
Cute girl #2: What?
Cute girl #1: Why do we have to help her?
Cute girl #2: You mean Haiti?
Cute girl #1: Yes, who is she?
Cute girl #2: You're so cute!

Dural
Australia

Overheard by: Hatter

Guy #1: Put them in the back seat. I've got a bunch of junk in my trunk… Excuse the double meaning.
Guy #2: Double meaning?
Guy #1: I've got junk in my trunk.
Guy #2: I don't get it.
Guy #1: Never mind.

Kroger Parking Lot
Athens, Georgia

American woman to daughter, window shopping in front of Hermès: Luxury isn't for everyone.

Hermès
Paris
France