Midwestern Eavesdropping - 2/12/09

Fourth grade teacher: "How do you think Brittney Spears got pregnant? Through dancing!"
--Chicago, Cody's, Paulina & Barry
Eavesdropper: The Loose-Lipped Lithuanian

Drunk girl when shown picture of Walter Payton, dead serious: "Yes, Brian Urlacher."
--Chicago, Cody's, Paulina & Barry
Eavesdropper: GMYH

Already very drunk fourth-grade teacher: "You look scared. You know why? Because in 30 minutes, I will be drunk."
--Chicago, Cody's, Paulina & Barry
Eavesdropper: The Loose-Lipped Lithuanian

Spunky middle-aged secretary on the phone with a friend: "And I said to the asshole, 'Of all the people on planes on September 11th, why couldn't you have been flying somewhere?'"
--Chicago, Clark & Wacker
Eavesdropper: Jesterio

Same secretary in same phone conversation, "What is he, racist? Oh . . . yeah, well he's just a Republican. That's their thing."
--Chicago, Clark & Wacker
Eavesdropper: Jesterio

Husband: "Do you know who Cassius Clay was?"
Wife: "Yeah, he beat Muhammad Ali."
--Chicago, Mitch's, Augusta & Leavitt
Eavesdropper: GMYH

Physician's Assistant: "At least you were in New York. It could be worse."
Twentysomething attorney: "True. I could've been sent to Allentown, Pennsylvania, like last time. I was there for a week. It was pretty terrible. Looked bombed out and depleted."
PA: "I went to Intercourse, Pennsylvania one time. It was a choir trip with my church group. That's the only place I've ever been in Pennsylvania. Well, maybe Phila--no. Just Intercourse."
--Chicago, Sheridan & Wellington
Eavesdropper: RobD

Drunk girl: "It's his alter eagle."
--Chicago, Mitch's, Augusta & Leavitt
Eavesdropper: GMYH

Drunk girl, confusing two very different people: "Who's Rick Astley? Is that Cab Calloway?"
--Chicago, Ashland & North in a car
Eavesdropper: GMYH

Husband: "I saw a dog today called a Ridgeback."
Wife: "It has a ridge on its back like a hedgehog?"
--Chicago, somewhere
Eavesdropper: The Loose-Lipped Lithuanian

College-aged girl on crowded rush hour train, loudly: "I get hit in the face ALL the time."
--Chicago, Brown Line train
Eavesdropper: GMYH

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