Here’s another one: Overheard in San Diego.
Yeah Irish students head over to anywhere in the US (sometimes even Canada) they might get employment every summer on the J1. These “J-wanderers” are usually 17-21 and out to have a great time and get blind drunk. Resort towns in New England and California seem to be the main places they flock though.
A few years ago when I was in grade 12 (senior), I was late for class and walking behind two younger girls probably 15ish,
Girl 1: I hope you know that your boyfriend is cheating on you,
Girl 2: That’s ok, I gave him aids.
Now I seriously doubt anyone got aids, but still an odd exchange.
At a concert, my husband heard this from an exasperated father in the men’s room:
“Don’t pee on your brother!”
SpouseO came out grinning and told me the entire room cracked up.
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A friend of mine who was living in Isla Vista told me that one day she and her roommates had their door open and in marched about ten Irish guys with drinks in hand.
She said they started singing some song while some of them marched in a circle around her and her roommates and some jumped up on the furniture all the while singing this song.
She said they then marched out of the house without saying one word to the girls.
She said it was funny but a bit surreal.
Once I was walking down the street and saw two boys in Catholic school uniforms. I heard one say to the other “His girlfriend gave him a really bad disease. It’s called The Clap!”
Emphatic guy on pay phone as I was walking by: I got a tatoo by myself! I bought a gun by myself! I certainly can go to the movies by myself!
Cannot argue with that.
Overheard at a fancy restaurant: one woman loudly telling another about how she hopes her married lover’s kids find out about her and her lover, because “those poor kids really need to see a real loving relationship”.
Overheard one late-teen boy saying to another, as they crossed the street today:
“They shoot you in the back of the head. If you haven’t got a back of the head, they shoot you where the back of your head would be”.
I assume it was a conversation about some game or something.
The problem with renting to Irish girls is that there is absolutely no chance that you will be able to keep up with them in the drinking department with the hope that they’ll get drunk enough to let you have your way with them. No chance.
I know this was meant to be a joke, but what you described is attempted rape and isn’t funny.
Yeah, cuz every time someone has drunken sex, it’s gotta be attempted rape…
This is awesome. I suddenly want to start bizarre snippets of conversation with my co-workers as we walk past customers.
I once spent about 30 minutes on the train listening to two 20-something dudes discuss whether or not telling a girl she was so hot he would cheerfully wash in her piss would be effective in getting her to fuck him.
Getting someone drunk enough that they won’t care if you have sex with them is rape.
Even if they know that’s your intention, but continue to drink anyways?
Wow, I totally missed Skald the Rhymer changing his username!
I get to hear some interesting lines from medical staff and visitors as I walk by them in the hospital.
Yesterday I was heading past a couple of women in the lobby and one of them intoned ominously to her friend:
“He’s been dead for over ten years.”
Avoiding temptation with difficulty, I did not turn and say:
“Well, that explains the lack of vital signs.”
or
“Usually we discharge them sooner, but I guess no one needed the bed.”