Students

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

Student: I just read the stupidest word on my Bio diploma. ‘Infer’? What the fuck does ‘infer’ mean?

1200 Festival Road
Sherwood Park, Alberta
Canadia

Tech guy: I need to update your microscope software, have you seen the dongle?
Grad student: Um… Excuse me?
Tech guy: I need to plug the dongle in to get access to your machine.
Grad student: Uh… What would… That… Look like?
Tech guy: Oh wait, never mind, I see it. Thanks!
[Tech guy leaves.]Grad student, to undergrad nearby: What the hell was he talking about?
Undergrad: I don’t know, but I feel like we were about ten seconds away from being in a very nerdy porno.

North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: LabCat

Postdoc: No, my landlord won’t allow two people living in the apartment.
Grad student: But it’s just your wife living with you.
Postdoc: Right.
Grad student: But wives don’t count as people!

Carl Icahn Laboratory
Princeton, New Jersey

Dude: The show was great, but the crowd made a noise like 10 thousand rats being run over by a car.

Route 9
Westborough, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Shreklichkeit

The Ballerinas Decide to Go to America

Bimbette: Hey, remember the time we broke the toilet?
Blonde: Yeah, stuff like that happens to us.
Bimbette: I wonder what will happen to us next…
Blonde: Let’s have a threesome with someone famous!
Bimbette: With who?
Blonde: A Beatle… John Lennon?
Bimbette: Duh, he’s in America!
Blonde: Duh, he’s dead!
Bimbette: Yeah, but he’s still in America.

St. Kilda Road
Melbourne, Australia

Overheard by: Same Cubicle, Different Pair

Third grader: Hey, for our project do we gotta write about a black person?
Teacher: No, you don’t have to write about a black person.
Third grader: My mom wants me to write about George Clinton.
Teacher: Do you mean Bill Clinton?
Third grader: Nah, I meant Thomas Jefferson.
Teacher: Oh, he’s okay.

7th Street & Sansom Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Teacher Noga