Passenger to Muslim agent lady: People must get freaked out when they see you.
Ticket counter, Newark airport
Newark, New Jersey
Overheard by: OOC
Passenger to Muslim agent lady: People must get freaked out when they see you.
Ticket counter, Newark airport
Newark, New Jersey
Overheard by: OOC
Artsy tourist to touristy-looking woman: More cats, more money!
Outside Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
Istanbul
Turkey
Lost woman: Excuse me, can you tell me what state I’m in?
Mall of America
Bloomington, Minnesota
Overheard by: ugh…tourists
Middle aged tourist with shopping bags moving towards a small puppy: Well, my oh my, aren't you the sweetest looking thing in the world!
Puppy: (barks)
Middle aged tourist: Oh, go fuck yourself!
Bangkok
Thailand
Overheard by: Adair
Hotel concierge: So, how did you enjoy The Big Easy?
Tourist lady: Oh, New Orleans is a wonderful city. I just wish I knew what it smelled like…
Drunk guy: “Ass.” That's the word your looking for. The city smells like ass.
Bourbon Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
20-something American girl, loudly and excitedly, pointing at statue: Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Ohmigod! There's a statue of Jesus! They've got a statue of Jesus Christ! Ohmigod!
Unimpressed 20-something Greek girl: That's a statue of Zeus. (slight pause) You fucking retard.
National Archaeological Museum
Athens
Greece
Overheard by: Bleep
American tourist #1, approaching Piazza de Michelangelo: Oooh, is that the David? Like, the real David?
American tourist #2: No, that’s not the real one. The real one doesn’t have arms.
Florence
Italy
Overheard by: Lex
American tourist: It's so quaint here. All the pretty houses. It's so romantic.
German host: Uh-huh.
American tourist: What I don't get, though, is why they built it if they don't even charge money for people visiting it.
German host: I think the people living here would feel weird about that.
American woman: Wait, people actually live here??
Regensburg
Germany
Tourist mom: What would Carol think of all this?
Seven-year old son: Her name is Coral, and I told you we broke up!
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