Woman to another: She washes her pickles in a dishwasher.
Cub Foods
Minneapolis, Minneapolis
Woman to another: She washes her pickles in a dishwasher.
Cub Foods
Minneapolis, Minneapolis
Male ethics professor: I was generally seen as a spoiled little bitch.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Girl #1: I have cows in my head!
Boy: What?
Girl #1: We're playing “Carry on Wayward Son” in orchestra. C-o-w-s.
Boy: Oh.
Girl #2: You really need to tell people that before you tell them you have cows in your head.
St. Joseph High School
Michigan
Guy at party: Well, I don't know if you can reduce Thoreau to pantheism…
Girl in Avatar face paint: Oh! Reduce!?
Berkeley, California
Orchestra director to French horn player: Can you just stick your fist up in there?
Luther College
Decorah, Iowa
Overheard by: percussionist who snorted like a 12-year-old
Guy: I think it's just every guy's fantasy to live with a giant black man and engage in tomfoolery.
Santa Clara University
California
Overheard by: Erin
Professor: The boy had all of the mathematical truths in his head and I was just pulling them out through his nose or something.
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
20-something hipster guy: There was the big drill for the alcoholic… Then they busted out the small drill and it was like… woah!
Coffee Shop
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: Vanessa
Girl #1, excitedly: Okay, this is where I leave you. I know you're going to forget all about this conversation when I go, but…
Girl #2, interrupting: No, no, I won't–I'm going home right now to google “demons” and “possession.”
Girl #1, walking away: Right, good. We're going to make this happen!
Girl #2, heading in opposite direction: Even if everyone else thinks we're crazy!
Girl #1, vehemently, from across the street: It's all down to us, now! We'll exorcise that demon if it's the last thing we do!
Bethesda, Maryland
Overheard by: Only if I can watch…
Sports fan to another: I'm telling you: you swing a wheel of cheese and hit a bird, that bird's going down.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Laure
