Words

10-year-old boy #1 in the pool: The sign says no flotation devices.
10-year-old boy #2: This isn't a flotation device, it's a boogie board.
10-year-old boy #1: A boogie board is a flotation device!

–Panama City, Florida

Overheard by: a schooner is a sailboat

Woman: Do you think Otto* will get a complex because everyone always says "good dog" to him?
Man: I don’t think he cares.

–Santa Cruz, California

Overheard by: downtown

Drunk New Year’s reveller, at 5 AM: Morning has broken, like the first…
Girlfriend: Shut up!

–Bondi Beach, Australia

Overheard by: GGary

University of Miami girl: If I wasn’t me, I’d think I was stupid.

–Miami Beach, Florida

Perfect guido #1, intensely: Yo, bro, there is no way dat your granmudda’s meatballs are better dan my granmudda’s meatballs.
Perfect guido #2: Alright, bro, I’ll give you dat much. But my granmudda’s marinara sauce will blow your granmudda’s outta da saucepan.

–Jones Beach, New York

Woman to six-year-old son and friends: Wait, so do you pronounce it “Jäger” or “gay-ger”?

–Del Mar, California

Blonde: What is autism?
Brunette: Are you serious?
Blonde: Isn't that when you write upside-down?

–Tampa, Florida

Father to daughter, while mother brushes hair: Doesn't that hurt?
Daughter: Nope, I have a strong scallop.
Father: What does that mean? Your head is not made of vegetables!
Mother: What? Vegetables? That's “scallions,” you idiot! And your head is not a scallop, it's a scalp… you're both idiots! (laughs hysterically)

–Robert Moses, Long Island, New York

Overheard by: Sugardoll

Girl to guy: Yeah, my parents are from Denmark, I know, it's “Deutschland”… I'm Dutch.

–Hamilton Island Beach, Australia

Overheard by: JJ

Sober girl: You have no idea what’s going on!
Drunk blonde: Yes I do! I am still totally relevant to what is going on!
Sober girl: Wait, what?
Drunk blonde: Oh, relevant of! Relevant of what is going on!… Aren’t these shoes sexy?

–Santa Barbara, California