Chick: What is this, pedophile music?
Munkegata, Oslo
Norway
Chick: What is this, pedophile music?
Munkegata, Oslo
Norway
Employee #1: Now, where did ‘Disco Inferno’ come from?
Employee #2: Not me! It’s not on my iPod!
Employee #1: I think it came from the refrigerator!
Employee #2: Oh really?
Employee #1: No, this is serious! You’re not the one with ‘Disco Inferno’ stuck in your head!
Chevy Chase
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: kitchen watcher
Editor #1 watching CNN: Can you imagine how hot JonBenet would be by now?
Editor #2: What?
333 N Meridian Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Old man: So, this was a good queer movie.
Video store clerk: Ummm…
Old man: Where are the other movies about dykes and queers?
Video store clerk: Ummm…
Old man: I want to know if they are really sexy, though.
Cedar Street
Westchester, New York
Overheard by: silenced
Male administrator: So, are you a prostitute?
Female administrator: Excuse me?
Male administrator: It’s a line from that movie, Monster.
Female administrator: You can’t just go around saying things like that to people.
Male administrator: Oh. Well, I used to do it all the time at my old job.
Female administrator: Is that why you’re not working there anymore?
Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC
Overheard by: the fly on the wall
Female editor: Hey, is Plastic Man a real superhero?
Assistant: Yeah. There’s been some dispute about his origins, though.
Female editor: Oh, really? But he is real, right?
Assistant: Yeah.
Female editor: Okay, great, thanks.
233 Spring Street,
SoHo, New York
Bookstore clerk: Prose? I thought that was a kind of poetry.
Bookstore, Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Doctor Whom
Woman on phone: Could you please just act like a human being?… Oh, right, I forgot. You’re a Transformer.
42nd Street
New York, New York
Twentysomething new hire: Why is there a Harry Potter picture in our lobby?
Fortysomething manager: Actually that’s a painting of John Lennon.
Silicon Valley, California
Overheard by: Pop Culturally Literate
Customer: I know it sounds like my husband drinks too much, but he really doesn’t.
Alcohol-company CSR: Hey, I talk about alcohol all day long. You can’t shock me.
Customer: Well, I write erotica, so I talk about sex all day long!
Alcohol-company CSR: Really?
Customer: Yeah. I just turned in my manuscript today, but it was three weeks late. I keep telling my editor, “I don’t write smut on demand!” But I write very good smut.
800 Market Street
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Easily Entertained
