Overheard in the Burbs

Fun conversations, secrets, confessions. Want to know what people are saying and thinking in the suburbs? Listen.
contributed by Jakcson on 11/20/2009 | |
Guy 1: You like leaves?
Guy 2: Not really.
Guy 1: (points toward leave-covered lawn) You have a lot.
Guy 2: Yeah.
Guy 1: So...
Guy 2: I don't not like them. Karen said we had to start saving money. Landscapers...
-- Overheard in: Sidewalk, Chestnut Hill MA --
contributed by LRT on 11/18/2009 | |
Guy 1: (on cell phone) There's 4 kinds of beef. No, five.
Guy 1: (fiddles with packages in meat section) Yea, it's not marked. Premium, something, I can't read it. I'm tellling you it's...
Guy 1: (after interruption) I'm not an idiot. What? (shuffle meat packages)
Guy 1: I'm telling you, it's not here.
Guy 1: Wait. Hold it. (pauses) Sh*t. This is pork, I'm in the pork section.
Guy 1: (interruption) OK, fine, I'm an idiot.
-- Overheard in: Supermarket, Madison NJ --
Garbage Man 1: (garbage can rolling across the street) You gonna get that?
Garbage Man 2: Nah.
Garbage Man 1: (dumps garbage into truck, looks as can starts rolling down hill) Nah.
-- Overheard in: West Orange NJ --