Recently overheard...

[snowshoe]

We've all been there, on the elevator, public transportation, in line at the grocery store and it happens: we overhear one little snippet of someone's conversation out of context and we just laugh to ourselves, we try to stick around to hear the rest of it, or we think... that needs to go on a t-shirt.

So this is the thread for you eavesdroppers of America!

[snowshoe]

and to start things off:

overheard at work: "my panties keep falling down"

[sarahlola]

hahha...love this idea.
One day a couple weeks ago, waiting for class to start I wrote down everything I heard when people passed me:

Some guy in awkward brown shirt with falling apart tennis shoes "amoanfadjdnf"- aka incoherent mumbling.

three girls walking past me on the sidewalk "no like, have you seen the two babies one? you haven't seen the two babies one? OMG you have to see the two babies one!"

guy behind a group of other people "yah and that was freakin amazing cool...right? right?"

loud guy, faux mustache (he's trying?) on the phone "I don't know..like a good pornstar?........After a few tries I'm ready.....You just said you aren't doing anything so why do you have to go?"..(5 minutes later)..."I just walked down and he looked at me like I was weird...so I said hi"


Disinterested guy sitting next to a girl talking about her halloween costume "so it costs to rent, but I am going to get tights and hello its really short but so cute..like so cute" looks at guy, guys looks up from macbook "oh uhh huh...amazing". she smiles.

[tigger]

just overheard at work...

"I get hard from Flash"

[sarahlola]

this is a hilarious website dedicated to stuff "overheard"...
This sustains me when my Mktg Prof rambles
http://overheardinnewyork.com/

[snowshoe]

hahaha... good ones guys!
One of my favorites was a random Portland homeless lady talking to a trash can saying...."that no-good Jane Seymour has sick shit morals."

[TimmyRocks*]

Co-worker 1: So i was listening to the BLOWERS daughter
Co-worker 1: by Damien Rice
Co-worker 2: oh?
Co-worker 1: and realized that it must be tough to be a blowers daughter
Co-Worker 2: the blower's sister however...

[mele]

hahaha... good ones guys!
One of my favorites was a random Portland homeless lady talking to a trash can saying...."that no-good Jane Seymour has sick shit morals."

Shit, that's one of my most favorite things, ever.

[snapdragon]

Saw this written on a whiteboard in the computer sci building today:

The cake lies...
The cake lies...
The cake lies...
The cake lies...

Obviously, it's that time of year: senior project time.

[bornalittlelate]

"If it werent for my horse, I wouldve never spent that year in college"

[deadinmi]

Overheard at the vet's office today...

Which one was it. Fluffy, Muffy, Tuffy, Snuffy, Bluffy, or George? Which one was it?

[kaytiebug]

I work at an alternative school, with some really wild kids. This afternoon one of the kids grabbed one of the walkie talkies and announced to the school that "Ms. (insert name of my friend who has a partner) is f*cking Ms. (me)." Oh how I loved overhearing THAT along with the rest of the school.

[TimmyRocks*]

Co-Worker 1: Oh man I used Vonage and it doesn't work
Co-Worker 2: Yeah, I've heard nightmare stories

Nightmare stories? Interesting way of putting it.

[rachelclark21]

I think my all time favorite is the following from 2002 (not so much overheard as she made it as an announcement):

New girl at school stands on table in commons area and yells "Has anyone seen my penis?"

It was the beginning of many a fun day in class when she started at my high school.

[calamele]

Two parents shopping for a jockstrap for their son:

Mom: Oh my god, it's so big! There's no way he'll ever need this size!

Dad: . . .

Mom: Uh, no reflection on you.

[snowshoe]

and that's why i put bacon bits on my sandwich....

[TimmyRocks*]

Awwwwwww datsa cute wittle puppy, he's sooooo coot (overheard my roomate)

[DobroEllie]

"Do you have your cell phone on you?" "yeah, why?" "I have all the answers to the test, I'll text them to you"

I turned those losers in... they cant do that. Thats just crap.

[Nehebka]

I heard this while shopping.

Guy: Hey girl let me get that out of you.
Girl: No your the one that put it in
Guy: Thats why I wanna get it out of you

I'm sure it was very innocent however it sounds perverted

[snowshoe]

at work:
"growing up in repressed places breeds perversion...."

[Nehebka]

This wasn't overheard but it was on my friends facebook wall and I thought is was soooo funny!

Dear Sister,

I smell better than you.

Love,
JP

I thought it was so funny I sent it to my sister in an email.

[Nehebka]

This was her reply.

Dear Sister,

Eat Shit

Love,
RP

I laughed at that too.

[snowshoe]

Well... this happened a while ago, but once in college I worked at a popular brunch place and one morning a midget (or the more PC term of "little person") came in at sat at one of my tables. Well, like all customers, I went over and asked her what she would like to eat and she requested a "short stack of pancakes".

I've never had to keep so hard from laughing in my entire life.

I think i even asked her if she'd like a little bit of cream for her coffee.

[TrompeLeMonde]

I heard my 3 year old niece say this as she watched my dad play his guitar: "I don't know how to play guitar, but my dad and Brandi Carlile do".

[sayyes]

I am at work, and a boy asked if he could borrow the phone to call his mother (I should have said no cause he smelled and looked dirty, so now I have to wash my phone). But this is what I overheard him say to his mother

*In a whiney voice* "But Mom, you promised you would take me to the trailer park!"