Words

Hungover guy #1: Dude, you smell like alcohol!
Hungover guy #2: Bro, I feel like alcohol.

Elmore, Alabama

Mother to toddler son, looking at cheese display: Look, charlie, Gruyere! Can you say “Gruyere”?

Whole Foods
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: GruyereLover

Girl on PA: Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers. We need Dan Smith* to return to automotive for a confrontation on your vehicle.

Wal-Mart
Kentucky

40-something woman: Bump-its for everyone!
40-something woman's friend: Yes! Bump-its!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: No thanks…

Professor: I’m just waiting for a chlorine radical to come and bite me up the ass.

Morraine Valley Community College
Palos Hills, Illinois

Overheard by: Kati

English professor, going over punctuation: We can fix this sentence by putting a comma here… and here… and here. See? Comma, comma, comma. [Breaks into song.] Comma-comma-comma-comma-comma chameleeeooon!

Community College
Palm Bay, Florida

Little boy being pushed in cart: You smell!
Dad: No, you smell!
Little boy: No, you smell!
Dad: You smell!
(a little later)
Little boy: That was awful!
Dad: Only because you think it is.
Little boy: You're a sock!
Dad: Oh, I'm a sock now?
Little boy: A soooock!
Dad: No, you're a sock!

Whole Foods
Hollywood, California

Overheard by: Kafrin

Punk guy: Man, I hate all these suburban punks.
Dumb girl: “Suburban”? Is that even a word??

Toledo, Ohio

Overheard by: Audrey

Single guy at preschool picnic surrounded by pretty MILFs: Clean, perfumed mommy flesh!

Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: Made me laugh

Goateed gentleman: I tried to teach her that certain words for things were different, like that toothpaste was actually “poop,” but I think I waited until she was a bit too old.

Mars Volta Concert, Rams Head Live
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Greeg