Woman #1 (reading a newspaper): Ohmigod, half of Bangladesh is under water!
Woman #2: So what? It's happened before.
Woman #1: But I think someone lives there!
Umea
Sweden
Girl: Dang, it's raining!
Boy: Do you have an umbrella?
Girl: Yeah. I hate umbrellas.
Boy, surprisingly vehemently: Suck it up!
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
Prof: So, how's everything at home?
Italian cafe worker: My dog died.
Prof: Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Was he old?
Italian cafe worker: Yes. But I can't bury him. The ground is frozen. There's snow.
Prof: You could have him cremated.
Italian cafe worker: I have him in my freezer. I had to clear it out, my freezer. All the food is out. I'm going to keep him there 'til mud season when I can bury him in the backyard.
Prof: Oh.
Landmark College
Putney, Vermont
Sexy girl: My roommate keeps the room temp at, like, tropical. It gets so hot in there it gets hazy! It’s a good thing she doesn’t care about nudity, because the only way I survive in that room is to walk around naked.
High Point, North Carolina
Freshman girl: It’s so much better when it’s cold than it is when it’s warm — all you can do when it’s 115 degrees out is sit around and air out your vagina flaps!
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/11/ten-days-all-at-once-huge-update.html
Overheard by: broyhaha
20-something man on cell: I've got women. I started my own religion. I don't give a shit if hipsters don't think I'm cool. (pause) I know in my heart I'm a fucking genius. If I died tonight, there would be a massive white trash orgasm. (pause) If you're so bad, your soul goes into a wax museum. We should make our own rap music. We'll be so good they'll put us in a mausoleum, like Stalin.
Norman, Oklahoma
Ditzy cute girl: Look at the clouds! They're blue!
Friend, deadpan: You mean the sky.
Ditzy cute girl: Yeah! Ohmigod, kittensssss!
Jakarta
Indonesia
Overheard by: I only want my coffee
Girl on cell: They had Greenland and Iceland on the test. (pause) Yeah, apparently they're two different things. (pause) I dunno, Greenland is the cold one, or something. (pause) Yeah, I think it was unfair, too.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Ginger
20-something Puerto Rican female passenger: God, I hate this weather!
Young black passenger: Man, I love this weather! The rain is good.
20-something Puerto Rican female passenger: I want sunshine!
Young black passenger: No, man, the rain is great… It's perfect meth weather.
Bus
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Mia Coleman
