Tennessee

Angry girl: I don’t want any sluts at my table!
Friend, calmly: Well, I guess I should move, then.
Angry girl: You’re not a slut. You just make… odd choices.

Tennessee

Overheard by: Vastly Amused

Man: I remember how one Halloween we ran out of candy and had to start giving the kids tea bags.

Mafiaoza’s
Nashville, Tennessee

Overheard by: John Chapin

Hippie: Yeah, John saw things that nobody should see.
Chic woman: Dude! We all did! Your house was seriously gross!
Hippie: Uh, I meant when he was in the war in Iraq…

Nashville, Tennessee

Teacher: That would make such a great scene in a movie: A volcano smoking, then it erupts, and thousands of ninjas spout out of it and run forth and populate the earth!
Student: This is the best class ever!

Memphis, Tennessee

Wife: Are you sure your office isn't closed for Columbus Day?
Husband: No, we could opt to take it off rather than the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Wife: Oh, that would be dumb.
Husband: Yeah. Besides, I think Columbus was kind of an a-hole.

Nashville, Tennessee

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.

Dude on cell, excitedly: Yeah, dude. Everything. We even learned how to make food out of pizza sauce!

University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Overheard by: Miss Behaved

Little boy throwing fit: I've never had dessert in my life! I don't even know what it tastes like!

Outside Cookie Store
Kingsport, Tennessee

5th grade girl: And he says to me, “you are so stupid,” and I say to him, “you are more stupid than me.” Then he says “nuh-uh, you more stupider than anybody.” And I'm said, “whatever, stupid!”

Tennessee

Overheard by: beth

Woman on phone: Well, if she wants the fucking dishtowels, she better!

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Overheard by: Drew