Teens

Nerdy-looking teenage boy: No way, going to the school dance with a partner seriously decreases my chances of getting laid.

Outside School
Washington, DC

Teenage girl on bus: Oh, fuck. What is this world coming to? It's like it gets worse and worse.
Teenage guy sitting beside her: What? No. This wouldn't be the worst thing that's happened. Bad things happen all the time. Think about worse things going on right now, or that have been going on, for like, forever.
Teenage girl: It feels like it's getting worse, though.
Teenage guy: But it's not, though.
Teenage girl: Yeah, but, these bad things keep happening. It always keeps happening.
(pause)
Teenage guy: I wanna go see Watchmen.
Teenage girl: Don't, I heard it's not that good.

Bus
Ontario
Canadia

Annoying teen #1, looking at trashy magazine: She's cute.
Annoying teen #2: That's Jessica Simpson.
Annoying teen #1: Well, she looks good red-headed and with her mouth open.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Giggling quietly in the pharmacy sectino

Teen #1: No. Seriously. What’s five eighths as a fraction?
Teen #2: God. We should totally know this.

Teenage girl: But you don't actually believe god made the world in seven days.
Teenage boy: No.
Teenage girl: And you believe in evolution and the dinosaurs?
Teenage boy: Yes.
Teenage girl: How come?
Teenage boy: Because a world that never had dinosaurs is a world I want no part of.

Adelaide
Australia

History prof: Benjamin Harrison was a pretty boring guy, with all the personality of a statue…I’m sure he couldn’t even…
[Class snickers.]History prof: Oh god, you fricken teenagers, you drag everything into the gutter!

Colorado University
Boulder, Colorado

Teen boy: What month is it now? Like… spring or something, right?
Teen girl: Nah, I think it's still winter. Cause it's August.
Teen boy: Really? I swear winter ended, like, two weeks ago, ay.
Teen girl: Oh… maybe…
Teen boy: Yeah. So what is it now? Spring? Or autumn? Or winter?

Australia

Father, explaining electrical cables to teenage son: Yeah, she's got a transvestite in her wall. But you can convert the tranny back to a female, using the thing in the wall.

Wellington, New Zealand

Overheard by: Jordyn

Teen girl to teen friends: I wish I was mixed race–not really black. I mean, you're brown all year round.

Nottingham
England

Overheard by: Johnny

Hippie teenage girl: He's such a screaming campy queer, I thought he was gay–but he's not! At least, he doesn't seem gay when he's fucking you. He does all the rest of the time, though.

Hither Green
London
England

Overheard by: Jess