Words

Cashier #1: He's definitely overcompensating for something.
Cashier #2: I do not know what that word means.
Cashier #3: “Compensate?” You don't know what that means?
Cashier #2: “Compensate?” Penetrate–I know what *that* is.

Filene's Basement
Washington, DC

Blonde in jacket: I know this guy that totally disemboweled a bomb using only a toothpick.
Demeaning guy friend: “Disemboweled”?
Blonde in jacket: With nothing but a toothpick! Isn't that incredible?

Denny's
St. Louis, Missouri

Overheard by: Gabe

Young boy: Good gracious, I'm high!

East Lansing, Michigan

Overheard by: sjshock

Girl: It wasn't “fuck you,” specifically…

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

Girl: So, it’s like this — a slut is a girl who says, ‘Look at my boobies,’ but a whore is a girl who says, ‘Touch my boobies.’
Friends: [Silence.]

Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Corona, California

Overheard by: trying to watch a performance

Female law student #1: You don't have to know that. You can just 69 it.
Female law student #2: Wait… What?
Female law student #1: You know, 69 it. Get rid of it.
Female law student #2: No honey, it's “86” it. That thing you said is something dirty.

Mississippi College School of Law

Girl to friend: You know what I was thinking? We always say girls who get pregnant are white trash. But I really thought about this, and we have sex. We could get pregnant. You're not white trash!

College
New Jersey

Girl sitting in front of lecture hall to professor, very matter-of-factly: People don't really use adverbs anymore.

Evans Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Overheard by: the only one left

Mother to small boy: No, it's a courgette, dear. You can't light a fire with courgettes.

Sainsbury's Supermarket
Cardiff
Wales

Overheard by: Gordinho

Little boy running inside out of a rainstorm: I am a sword of wetness!

First United Methodist Church
Pittsburg, Kansas