Students

Cheerleader: It sucks that Halloween is on a Monday this year.
Football player: Dude. I hate when they do that to me.

19501 Outer Drive
Dearborn, Michigan

Reservations manager: You look very small today!
GSR: Umm…thanks?

Charleston, South Carlolina

Grad student: You know those pencil sharpeners you had in elementary school? Well, the same thing happens with the electrical concept. And I didn't know.

Lafayette, Indiana

Overheard by: Rachel S.

Professor: So we'll have lab meeting on Monday, then.
Grad student: Um, that's Labor Day, so people will probably be away.
Professor: Away? Why?
Grad student: Because it's a federal holiday?
Professor: Well, we're not federal, so we don't take federal holidays.

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: LabCat

Grad student: I have to scoop my boobs out of my armpit when I lay down.

Charleston, South Carolina

Male postdoc: Are you sure you can’t do this experiment alone tomorrow?
Female postdoc: I’m sure! I’ll ask someone to help! I can’t do it alone! I’m too short! Pretty! Boobs, and stuff!

Physics Lab
Hunter College, New York

Sorority girl in Spanish class: ‘Diabolico…’ That means he’s diabetic, right?
Classmate: No, it means diabolic.
Sorority girl: So, diabolic… Is that like a medical condition?

Modern Languages building, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Teacher: You should all go back in time to where I would walk in the room and you all stand up and say, ‘Hello, Professor M*!’
Student: And women shouldn’t have the right to vote!

Newton, Massachusetts

Bubbly blond college grad to incredulous admin: Boys have it so easy. Being a princess is hard!

Hopkinton, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Glad I have it easy!

Tween girl #1, going through underwear: Oh my God, so I could, like, totally get the blue ones and wear them on school spirit day!
Tween girl #2: Totally!

Victoria’s Secret
Bellevue, Washington

Overheard by: Becky