Words

Angry girl storming out of classroom: My mama ain’t raise no adolescent!

High school
Rockford, Illinois

Overheard by: Bre

Three-year-old girl to dad: I spy with my little eye… somethiiing… IKEA!

Queen Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia

Dude #1: Have you ever seen the movie Airplane!?
Dude #2: L-O-L, Yeah.
Dude #1: You know that one part– Wait… Did you just say ‘L-O-L’?
Dude #2: Yeah… It slipped.

Carousel Mall
Syracuse, New York

Rich girl #1: This one’s ‘the juxtapositioned couple’? What’s juxtapositioned?
Rich girl #2: I don’t know… Like, without their skin?

Phoenix, Arizona

Older lady: What’s a whiffy?
Man, confused: What’s… a whiffy?
Older lady: Right there! It says, ‘Free whiffy’ — W-I-F-I.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Overheard by: Jen

Student: What does ‘STP’ stand for?
Teacher: ‘Standard temperature and pressure.’ Also, ‘Stone Temple Pilots.’

Chemistry class
Provo, Utah

Nurse: I didn’t know it yet, but I was saying ‘fuck’!

VA Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio

Overheard by: Scut-monkey

English student #1: Girl, don’t even tell me you was where you was, ’cause you wasn’t there!
English student #2: Foo’! Don’t be tellin’ me where I is and where I isn’t! I is where I is at!

927 Franklin Street
Iowa

Overheard by: grammer teachah

Guy: So I told her, ‘Stop busting my chops.’
Chick: What does that mean?
Guy: What does what mean?
Chick: ‘Busting my chops.’
Guy: You never heard that before?
Chick: I think so, but I never knew what it meant.
Guy: It means, like, breaking someone’s balls.
Chick: [Silent stare.]Guy: You never broke someone’s balls?
Chick: I don’t think so.
Guy: Well, you’re breaking my balls right now.

Westbury Music Fair
Westbury, New York

Overheard by: Big Larry

Hipster girl: Haha, that presentation we did in class was kinda strange…
Dude: Yeah, I know, but I just had to say ‘porn.’

Dalseweg
Nijmegen
Holland