I came across an interesting website recently. It is updated daily with amusing accounts of conversations overheard in London: on the street, on the underground, in pubs and clubs - and elsewhere.
Here are a few examples:
SOPHISTICATION
Hoodie 1: 'We gotta get into drinking stuff like Earl Grey...'
Hoodie 2: 'Bruv, why?'
Hoodie 1: 'Coz then people will think we're more sophisticated, innit!'
(Overheard by Chel, Waterloo to Dorking train)
WHAT'S THE TIME?
On an overground station platform, two teenage girls who knew each other, one waiting to go east, the other waiting to go west.
One shouts across the tracks to the other, "Hope the train comes soon. Do you know what time it is?"
The other points, "There's a clock up there."
The time read 22:12.
The first girl replies, "Yeah, but I don't understand them sort of clocks!"
(Overheard by PJ, Rail station East London)
THE OBVIOUS FLEW OVER HER HEAD
Woman to her partner: "so when the pedestrian footpath goes over the road instead of under it, is that still an underpass?"
Partner (in deadpan voice): "No, I think that's called a bridge"
(Overheard by Anonymous, Baker Street
APOCALYPSE WHEN?
Presenter of IT services: "So if the world were to end during the upgrade, how would that affect the business?"
(Overheard by spufidoo, IT Change Control Meeting)
CRAB LUNCH
A boy and a girl sitting together at a cafe I walked past and heard the boy say to girl irrated.
"Don't have a go at me, I'm not the one that gave you crabs."
(Overheard by Stina, Cafe)
You can read many, many more at:
