Training teacher: So, what are some things that you guys think are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Male teen student: Obesity?
Training teacher, with blank stare: Um, I don't think so. Anyone else?
Female teen student: How about being an old person?
Training teacher: Oooooooh boy. How about we just take a look at this slide up here…
Duane Reade Career Center
Manhattan, New York
Student: You look very excited.
Professor: Yeah, ’cause I just peed!
Rolfe Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: Josh M.
Professor to group of peers grading cadet exams: Wow, now this kid’s going to grow up to be a serial killer.
US Military Academy, West Point
Highland Falls, New York
Teacher to students, in creepy deep voice: Want a lollipop? I have many flavors!
Sydney
Australia
Assistant teacher: Shit, never get in a car with him. He drove me home once, and halfway home I realized he was so drunk, and he wouldnt let me out of the car. He started going almost 80 miles an hour!
Teacher: Oh, I thought he was a good driver. When I got in the car, though, he just said, “I’m just warning you. I’m a little tipsy right now.”
450 Glen Cove Avenue
Glen Head, New York
Female teacher to male teacher: Aw, you're such a gentleman! When you die we're going to pickle you and put you in the corner and label you “the last gentleman.”
Arts and Humanities Dept
Bexhill College
England
Overheard by: Corinne
Professor: Does anyone have questions about the importance of the flood myth in the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Student: Well, when it flooded and everything died, what happened to all the fish?
Professor: Well, it was a flood… So I think they were okay…
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
Overheard by: Stared in disbelief
Student: What is this bit?
Professor: Which bit?
Student: The kinda-purplish, squishy bit.
Professor, to assistant: Do you know what that is?
Assistant: No.
Professor, to student: That’s not important. You can ignore that.
USC Anatomy lab
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: Kylie
Teacher: It’s not like you go out in nature and see plants, like, getting it on. [Class laughs.] I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that at school…
Covington, Louisiana
Overheard by: Erica
Trainer: So, we used to be called the self-help department, but now it's the self-services department. Before, we helped customers to help themselves. I guess now we help customers to um, service themselves.
Austin, Texas
