Girl #1: Do you want to come run with me?
Girl #2: Yeah, just let me finish this cigarette.
Girl #1: Yeah. I think I’ll have one, too. It loosens up your lungs.
–Dewey Beach, Delaware
Overheard by: Steve
Girl #1: Do you want to come run with me?
Girl #2: Yeah, just let me finish this cigarette.
Girl #1: Yeah. I think I’ll have one, too. It loosens up your lungs.
–Dewey Beach, Delaware
Overheard by: Steve
Girl #1: I mean, I could force a relationship right now. I just don’t want to.
Girl #2: Uh‐huh.
Girl #1: We really don’t have that much in common.
Girl #2: Uh‐huh.
–Dewey Beach, Rehoboth, Delaware
Overheard by: Alaina
Little girl, pointing at a couple making out: Hey! Look, daddy! We have to stop and stare now.
Dad: Shh! No, sweetie. What they are doing is rude, but staring is rude too.
–Bethany Beach, Delaware
Pompous failed astronomer: So, the reason there was a half moon last night was that the Earth gets in between the sun and the moon [arranges water bottles to demonstrate]. It’s kind of like an eclipse, but the Earth only covers half the moon, so you see the rest.
Chick: Oh, okay. Interesting.
Pompous failed astronomer: It’s really just thinking logically. Something has to cast a shadow on the moon.
–Bethany Beach, Delaware
Overheard by: not the only one laughing at him
Hot teen girl #1: Sexy llama come to mama. (throws imaginary lasso)
Hot teen girl #2 (caught in the imaginary lasso): Unce unce unce unce…yes.
Random lady to son nearby: See honey, this is why we don’t eat magical mushrooms.
–Rehoboth Beach, Deleware
Overheard by: kevin
Mom telling young son to hold her hand: I just love you so much I can’t let go.
Little boy: You don’t have to love me that much.
–Bethany Beach, Delaware
Overheard by: local onlooker
Drunk girl, rolling around in large puddle: It’s a bird bath! Get in!
Angry guy: Get the fuck out of the puddle! You’re not a goddamn bird!
–Bayard Avenue, Dewey Beach, Delaware
Little boy with faux tattoo heading to wading pool: Hey, let’s all get in the pool and get naked!
Little girl: With you? Ewww!
–Sea Colony, Bethany Beach, Delaware
Overheard by: RexGee
Girl: He gets so tan!
Guy: I tell you, you look at his hand and you’d think that man was black!
Girl: You know, his mom’s husband is black. That’s why we tease him about that so much.
Guy: Really? His step‐dad is black?
Girl: Yeah.
Guy: Wouldn’t you be pissed?
Girl: Yeah, well, his mom treats him like shit anyway.
Brief pause.
Girl: I’m rethinking the doctor thing.
Guy: Really?
Girl: Yeah, surgeon or oncologist or whatever I become. I wouldn’t be able to have a family.
–Rehoboth, Delaware
Overheard by: kristen
