First grader #1: Miss D.*, how old are you?
23-year-old Miss D.: Well…
First grader #2: Shhh! Don’t you know you’re not supposed to ask an old lady how old she is?!
Hauppauge, New York
Overheard by: Toni
First grader #1: Miss D.*, how old are you?
23-year-old Miss D.: Well…
First grader #2: Shhh! Don’t you know you’re not supposed to ask an old lady how old she is?!
Hauppauge, New York
Overheard by: Toni
Trainer during computer training class: Now, everyone use their last name and first initial as their user name and password.
Trainee #1: I did that and it says I don’t exist.
Trainee #2: Me, too.
Trainee #3: Same here.
Trainer: Raise your hand if you don’t exist. [Almost entire class raises their hands.]Meek voice from the back: I exist.
1515 Broadway
New York, New York
Overheard by: Jas
Student aide #1: So, what happened next?
Student aide #2: Well, I had my eyes closed, and the next thing I know my fat-ass brother is on top of me, sucking my ear.
1121 Duvall Highway
Pasadena, Maryland
Overheard by: Disturbed English Teacher
Pledge drive volunteer: Would you like to pledge to fight hunger and homelessness?
College guy: No thanks, man.
Pledge drive volunteer: How about pledging to make higher education more affordable?
College guy: Dude, homeless people don’t even go to college…
470 West 7th Street
Bloomington, Indiana
Overheard by: pledging
Student: But she did it with a chimera.
4200 Emile Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Hung-over guy on cell: I’m telling you, I didn’t rape her! She said we could have sex, right before she passed out.
On way to class
Virginia
Overheard by: I wanted to follow him and keep listening
Student: If I put more stamps on it, will it go faster? My sister’s birthday is tomorrow.
Middlebury College Mail Center
Middlebury, Vermont
Overheard by: Disgruntled Mail Worker
Sorority girl #1: It is so cold.
Sorority girl #2: I wish I was, like, Asian. You know, like, those masks they wear? Over their faces? That would be so warm.
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Guy: What are you going to do in Melbourne?
Girl: One of the days I’m there I’m going to go from bar to bar — you know, just explore myself.
Mounts Bay Road
Perth
Australia
Student: I can’t get this essay to say what I want it to say, and you aren’t helping me!
Tutor: Well, what do you want to say, exactly?
Student: That you’re an idiot who isn’t helping me!
Tutor: So write that.
Student: … Are you serious?
Tutor: Sure. Write your whole essay around it if you think you can support your argument.
Student: … But you’re the TA, so you’ll be grading it later, right?
Tutor: Let me put it this way — if you can write this argumentative essay well enough that I start to take your side, then I will give you an A for the semester.
Student: Can I get that in writing?
Tutor: Sure [writes it and signs it].
Student: Sweet. I’m head of the debate team, you know.
101 Braddock Road
Frostburg, Maryland
Overheard by: can’t wait to see how this one turns out…
