quotes from the street

“don’t you fucking walk away from me you wanker!”

overheard: Picadilly Circus, London

context: a rather scary chav to her comparatively shrimpy boyfriend

“it’s because they don’t use cynicism as a tool for power – which is something the english do so well”

overheard: train from southampton to london

context: an english girl describing what she loves about Americans

“there is a broken train in front of us that can’t be moved … so we’ll be here for ages, probably, i think”

overheard: London Underground, London

context: train driver over the intercom to passengers on the district line

“ya, um, sorry – it’s just that i totally don’t believe in the whole ’save the environment’ thing”

overheard: London, UK

context: an office manager to staff in regards to printing less paper

girl: “hi. um, i’m meghan”

guy: “meghan, i’m flattered but i’ve heard enough of your conversation with your friend to know that you’re an idiot”

overheard: Charlotte, North Carolina

context: guy to a girl in a bar after she woefully made an approach

girl 1: “and then i found out he was totally effing someone else!”

girl 2: “omigod, he was f*cking someone else?!”

girl 1: “oh no no, effing, you know, facebooking?!”

overheard: London, UK

context: two girls on the bus discussing their sorted social media affairs

“i’ll learn to speak chinese before i learn to speak woman”

overheard: The Wellington, London

context: one twenty something guy to a girl

“two bottles of crystal – one drink, one spray”

overheard: Tramp, London

context: a russian guy explaining his bottle selection to the table one over

five year old: “daaaaad….”

father: “yes choppy?”

five year old: “you know when you’re head grows, does your brain get bigger by magic?”

overheard: Rickmansworth, London

context: five year old to his father

girl: “and you, where are you from?”

guy: “well, i’m half french, half greek – i’m a freak!”

overheard: Chelsea, London

context: two twenty-somethings chatting at a party

“i can’t see you darling, but i can tell you’re gorgeous by the sound of your voice”

overheard: Toronto, Canada

context: a blind man to a young woman at a dinner party

“quit your whining kev or you’re not getting macky d’s for dinner!”

overheard: Primark, Oxford Circus

context: chav mum to her son whilst shopping as he complained he was hungry

“it’s like finding out santa claus doesn’t exist!”

overheard: Mayfair, London

context: two 20 something girls discussing monogamy and the increasingly obvious lack of it

“i’d rather live like a king than be one”

overheard: Saba Island, Caribbean

context: a carribean taxi driver/real estate agent/tour guide to a family on their holiday

“you must be very careful when you cuddle an octopus, or it might keep you”

location: Rickmansworth, London

context: a five year old’s insight whilst watching a wildlife programme on the BBC

“we are vigilantly scanning the heavens for the first snowflake”

overheard: BBC, London

context: Boris Johnson assuring the capital that he’s got it all under control

englishman: “so what do you do here in london?”

russian girl: “umm, sex, shopping, sex, shopping, nikki beach”

overheard: London, UK
context: russian girl to englishman at a club 

“if he´s english, he´s a fucking pirate – he may think i forgot what HE did to MY boat in the 18th century, but i didn´t!”

overheard: Madrid, Spain

context: a spanish guy discussing his feelings toward the english

girl: “do u think there is life on other planets?”

guy: “probably”

girl: “do u think they have shops?”

overheard: Oxford Circus, London

context: a couple walking and talking whilst doing their christmas shopping

guy #1: “i think that girl wants to go home with you”

guy #2: “i would never go home with the kind of girl who would go home with me”

overheard: Charlotte, NC

context: two friends at a club scoping the room