Student: I hate going to the weight room. Those weights are heavy.
School
Texas
Overheard by: dan
Student: I hate going to the weight room. Those weights are heavy.
School
Texas
Overheard by: dan
Woman: I thought I was a smart person, but no, I’m not.
175 S. Third Street
Columbus, Ohio
Secretary #1: It looks nice, don’t it?
Secretary #2: Did you just say, “it looks nice, don’t it?”…Doesn’t it! I’m just trying to get us ready for the bigwigs next week!
Secretary #1: It don’t matter, sweetie.
10559 Citation Drive
Brighton, Michigan
Overheard by: Abigail Fisher
Mother to small child: I already spent all of my money on your face.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadia
Overheard by: beckz
Middle aged woman: Ever since I hit 50, the hot flashes have been hitting me like mad.
Teenage clerk: Ummm…yes.
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Anni
Soldiers are doing push-ups on frost-covered grass.
Soldier #1: Man, it’s cold! I can’t feel my hands!
Soldier #2: I can’t feel my testicles.
Soldier #3: My testicles are all crawled up inside my body…so snug…and so warm…
Soldier #4: I wish I was a testicle.
Soccer field #3
Fort Eustis, Virginia
Woman #1: I've been drinking tons of water.
Woman #2: Oh, yeah?
Woman #1: Yeah, I've been peeing like crazy.
Woman #2: Oh, yeah?
Woman #1: Yeah, like every five minutes. I hate peeing. It is so boring.
New York City, New York
Boss: I don’t want you to answer the department phone anymore. Unless I’m on another line, that is.
Drone: OK…sure. Uh, what happened? I mean, did someone complain about me?
Boss: Not yet.
7 Times Square
New York, NY
Man in armchair, to no one: You’re always fuckin’ starting with me. Every morning! [Long pause] And then you start in on the gay thing. I’m not talking to you! You started it, and then you tell me to shut up. You shut up! Always, you start it then tell me to shut up. [Long pause] And you try to tell me I’m sick… Read a goddamn newspaper! There’s child porn, and Anna Nicole Smith is dead and they’re fighting over her baby, and you tell me I’m sick?!
Book store
Greece, New York
Overheard by: confused reader
Film crew girl #1: So, it was really awful, then?
Film crew girl #2: Oh my god, it was worse. He gave me the worst sex ever. I mean, the least you can do when you’ve made me pay for dinner and the cinema and drinks and stayed at my house all weekend is give me a right good seeing to.
Film crew girl #1: Seeing him again?
Film crew girl #2: Tomorrow night.
Brick Lane
London
England
Overheard by: Nics
