The "Things Overheard" Thread

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Surely this has been done before, but I'm too lazy to dig up the thread I may be replicating.

Let's post things we overhear that are funny, demented, profound or just worth repeating.

Things we hear from strangers, perhaps out of context. On the bus, elevator, mall merry-go-round, adult bookstore, Linens N' Things.

Do it!

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NOt sure this qualifies...but..

The Judge just put a girl on Probation that needed a sign interpreter. Then she says "I have no objection to your being placed on PHONE IN" Probation.

Excuse me? SHE CAN'T EVEN HEAR YOU!

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Oh, cool.

I'm terrible at overhearing but I'm really good at lipreading conversations across a restaurant...

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"Software is living, breathing, organic entity, man."

You may not be amused, but when a developer waxes like a Philosophy 101 student by a campfire, I am.

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Oh hey, a theme already! (Deaf people can use phones though... relay...)

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Senior citizen to wife in restaurant as meal arrives.

"Do I like this ?"

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sozobe wrote:

Oh hey, a theme already! (Deaf people can use phones though... relay...)

I know Soz...but our probation system isn't tdd (is that it?) friendly

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No, no ttys/ tdds required for relay... one person on computer or tty, other person just picks up the phone, relay operator relays (speaking to hearing person, typing to deaf person).

Anyway, that's a digression...

Guy and gal at restaurant:

Gal: You are NOT going to break up with me in public...?!

Guy: Um... OK.

- silence -

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Overheard at the beach, while walking past a mother with a double stroller:

"Honey, stop poking your brother in the eye with that shovel, he's going to need both his eyes."

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overhead at the gym....

(said with disdain)....Oh, I don't do Aeorbic classes anymore Rolling Eyes

, now I do Cardio.......

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I overheard two women discussing Jeffery Skilling of the Enron scandal. Here in Chicago, Skilling's brother, Tom Skilling, is a very popular TV weatherman. One of the women knows Tom Skilling and was going to extremes blaming Kenneth Lay for the Enron scandal and trying to make Jeffrey Skilling look like a scapegoat.

"The federal government needs to dig up Kenneth Lay's body and do a DNA test. That is someone else's body. Kenneth Lay is on a Carribean island living off the money he stole from Enron."

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Interesting site--sometimes.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

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3 yr old nephew at a Thanksgiving dinner:

Him: Mom, can I have another leg?

Mom: Sorry, they're both gone.

Him: (ponders) Well then, does that chicken have any arms?

and before leaving the table, addressing his great-Uncle Don:

Him: Uncle Don, I'm going to play now. You can gnaw on my bones if you want to.

Very Happy

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Noddy24 wrote:

Interesting site--sometimes.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

oh god, some of these are sooooo....great.

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I love this!!

Quote:

Guy to two chicks holding hands: Hey, are you, like, lesbians or something?
Chick #1: No.
Guy, after disembarking and then seeing them kiss: So they were lesbians! Right? Right?!

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2 guys in the grocery store, produce section:

"What are you doing?"
"What? Oh, I always double bag everything."
"Really? Do you wear 2 condoms, too?"

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2 little girls discussing nocturnal wildlife....

WhatEVER you do, DO NOT try to touch a night animal during the day!

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BBB
When my son was about 6 years old, we were driving past the tall curved Kaiser building along Lake Merit in Oakland, California.

My son asked his friend, "I wonder how they wash all the windows."

His friend replied, "They have tall ladders."

http://timothybuckwalter.typepad.com/painting_drawings/images/architextureopenernov06.jpg

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I heard my nephew running around the house after the dog. I was in the other room. I realized he had a plastic hammer in his hand. I yelled, "You're not hitting the dog on the head with the hammer, are you?" I didn't exactly overhear it and I hope no one else did!

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In the bathroom at work a few minutes ago.

Clink.

"Oh, shiiiit."

I think it was her ring.

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