A service of the International Center for Limerick Studies. Don't you just hate listening to people talking on their cell phones? I love eavesdropping. What are these people talking about? Dr. Michael J. MacArthur, Executive Director and Private Ear.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Overheard at a grocery store
Female, 30s: Tell your Father he’s a bad boy and I’ll deal
with him later.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-service restaurant
Female, 70s: It says in the paper that somebody reported
that their garbage can was stolen. Go
and check on ours.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Monday, July 14, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Overheard at a restaurant
Male, 70s:
It’s like that blonde woman said on TV.
They’re promoting soccer to expand the socialist gender.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Overheard in a popular quick-service restaurant
Male, 60s:
Have you seen my glasses? . . . Well, look around. Look on the kitchen table . . . Never mind, I’ve
got ‘em. Go back to sleep.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Overheard at a grocery store
Male, teens: They don’t have that stuff you want . . .
That strawberry stuff . . . I’m in
the jelly aisle . . . I don’t know what “reserves” look like.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Overheard in a grocery checkout lane
Female, 30s: Then she said, “God bless Mommy and Daddy,
Uncle Jeff and Uncle Johnny and Aunt Carmen . . . Yeah, I hate being lumped in
with those losers.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Doctor! Doctor! I’ve got World Cup Fever!
Doctor!
Doctor! I’ve got World Cup Fever!
Can you give me some kind of reliever!
He said, “When we lose,
You’ll contract World Cup Blues
As you go from believer to griever.
Go USA Soccer . . . I mean Futbol!
Can you give me some kind of reliever!
He said, “When we lose,
You’ll contract World Cup Blues
As you go from believer to griever.
Go USA Soccer . . . I mean Futbol!
Friday, June 20, 2014
Overheard in a popular quick-service restaurant
Female, 70s; I know it’s your cat, but “Smudge” is not a
girl’s name.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Overheard in a diner
Female, about 50: I’m so hot right now. My bra is wringing wet and my pants are
sticky.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Overheard on a residential sidewalk
Female, teen; Guess who did it last night. . . . No, not
me. I wish.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Overheard at a coffee shop
Male, 50s;
Excuse do you have any Grey Poupon? . . . Well how about some Brown
Poopon? (followed by giddy laughter)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Overheard in a popular quick-service restaurant
Since Jim died, I have to find a
doctor. I had been taking some of his
meds and those ran out.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Overheard in a parking lot
Female, 70s: If you’re going to McDonalds, get me a small
chicken noodles . . . I didn’t say anything about soup . . . Small pack of
CHICKEN NOODLES!
Friday, June 6, 2014
Overheard in a popular quick-service restaurant
Male, 70s – Hello, I received some papers
that say I have $70,000 with your company . . . I want to know where it came
from.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Overheard in a grocery checkout
Female,
60s: So, they tied up the game in the eight
inning and those poor people had to stay there for 8 more innings and go home
in the dark. Somebody should fix that.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick service restaurant
Female, 40s: I’m such an idiot. I just bought 6 nuggets for $2.49. I coulda got 2 4-packs for $1 a piece. I coulda saved a couple bucks and got more.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Overheard on the bus
Female, 30s: She throws coins out the upstairs bedroom
window to get the dogs to shut up.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-service restuarant
Male, 40s (at 3 pm on Mothers’ Day): Where
can I get something cheap for Ellie for Mothers’ Day?
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Overheard at the bike rally
Female, 30s: I was there makin’ hash browns and I realized
that I was still drunk.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Overheard at a buffet
Overheard at a buffet
Male, 60s: I’m at that Chinese buffet. What don’t I like.
Male, 60s: I’m at that Chinese buffet. What don’t I like.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Overheard at a quick-service restaurant
Female, 40s: You boys watch the game and we will go to a
movie. . . . You do know how to order pizza, don’t you?
Monday, April 14, 2014
Overheard in a quick-service restaurant
Female, 60s: I said, “Honey, you’ve got a newborn, a
15-month-old and a 3-year-old. I had
nothing to do with how that happened.
Honey, you are on your own.”
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Overheard at a diner
Female, 60s: If it won’t come out, just go try again. Gramma can’t go in there and get it for you.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Overheard in a diner
Female, 30s: My daughter told her step-mom, “My Mom is
going to buy me some Victoria Secrets underpants, and you can’t do anything
about it.” … Hell, no! She’s only eight!
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Overheard in a diner
Female, 20s: Get this.
Jim said he was robbed. He said
that a pickpocket must have got his wallet, removed all of his money, including
the child support, and returned the wallet to his pocket. What an idiot.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Overheard on the bus
Female, 30s: He said he respected my situation and said
that if I slept with him, he would pay my rent.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Overheard at a parking lot
Male, 30s:
The basement has a support pole.
Julie saw it and said, “Look Daddy, Uncle Bpbby has a stripper pole.””
Monday, March 24, 2014
Overheard at a coffee shop
Female, 50s: He got me a gun for Christmas. He’s lucky it wasn’t loaded. I’d a shot him.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Overheard at a convenience store
Male, 50s:
I’m gonna keep bowling until the man upstairs tells me to hang up my
ball
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Overheard at a shopping center
Female, 40s: I don’t know what he was dreaming about, but
he kept poking me in the back.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Overheard at a department store
Female, 20s. behind a sales counter: I don’t know what hurts worse. My head or my ass.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Overheard in a shopping mall
Remale, 50s: At least now I don’t have to wear that pain-in-the-ass
bra.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Overheard at a shopping mall
Female, 20s: First of all, she dresses like a whore. . . I
know she is, but she doesn’t have to dress like one.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-service restaurant
Female, 30s: Don’t make me yell “I need tampons!” in the
middle of a restaurant.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Overheard at a coffee shop
Female, 50s
He’s probably playing that World of Warpath . . . What did I say?
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Overheard at a strip mall
Female, 30s: We can either
pay the gas bill or get a bag of weed.
We can’t do both.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Overheard at a filling station
Male, 60s: Hell, we’ve got
more gays getting married these days than standard people
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Overheard at a hardware store
Male, 50s: My brother can’t
sell his house . . . Because no one will buy it!
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Overheard in a parking lot
Female,
Teens: Right after church, she told me
that she was going to beat my ass.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Overheard at the bank
Male,
70s: I’m all out of sync today. I ran out of coffee and I didn’t get to read
the obituaries.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-service restaurant
Male,
30s: Like Kid Rock said, “I can smell a
building inspector from a mile away.”
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-service earery
Male,
70s: I don’t care if he was born here.
He’s still a foreigner.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
Overheard at a discount hairstyling shop
emale: I love cinnamon. I’ll eat any thing with cinnamon on it. . .
. Yeah, even that.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Overheard in a grocery checkout line
Female,
40s: I have to call you back. My panties are falling down.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Overheard at a donut shop
Overheard
at a donut shop
ale
20s: Yeah, I got fired. . . I didn’t
show up, but they never called to remind me or anything.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-service restaurant
Female,
at least 18 (I hope): Guess what Trevor
sent me for Valentine Day . . . A picture of his, uh, (whispering) thing.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Overheard on a bus
Male.
20s : Yeah, I lost my new job. . . .
They said I was on probation, but I’ve never been arrested.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Overheard at a fast-food restaurant.
Female,
70s: It’s so cold in here. I come in
here almost every day and it’s always so darn cold. I hate it here.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Overheard at a popular quick-serviuce restaurant
Female, 40s:
. . . that’s why we called him “stinky feet.”
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
Overheard at a popular discount emporium.
Female,
20s: Sure, I’ll come over, as long as you
give me two bucks.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Overheard on Groundhog Day
Female, 20s:
I just think it’s amazing that animals like that can sense things like
the weather.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Overheard in a popular fast-food establishment
Male,
30s: Why do you think I need you to rob
a bank?
Monday, January 27, 2014
Overheard at a medical building
Female,
about 20: I’m at the doctor’s office and
I need a ride home . . . I’m too dilated to drive . . . My EYES!
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