This week, in honor of the last days of school, my favorite under-18 overheards:
Eastbound 14, 3:45 PM
High-school girl 1: “It’s a dinner. I’m getting in free or I wouldn’t be going. They called and asked if I wanted fish or chicken.”
HSG 2: “Fish!”
HSG 1: “Please! You don’t know what the fish looks like. You can’t just say ‘fish’
over the phone like that. Chick-en.”
Eastbound 4, 3:45 PM
A group of teenage boys is antagonizing a fortysomething man dressed in work clothes and boots.
Boys’ ringleader: “Man, I make more in an hour than you probably make in a whole day.”
Fortysomething man: “I make 54 bucks an hour.”
BR: “Seriously? What do you do?”
FM: “Electrician. Journeyman.”
Random boy: “You work every day?”
FM: “Seven days a week.”
BR: “Dang. You’re pulling in some serious cheese.”
The bus reaches fortysomething man’s stop, and he gets off.
BR, to his friends: “I’d stop hustling for a job that paid like that.”
Southbound 17, 1:45 PM
Teenage boy 1: “Boys II Men was depressing.”
TB 2: “Depressing how?”
TB 1: “Depressing like, ‘I will never go to another R&B show unless my girl is there.’”
Northbound 48, 8:50 AM
Middle-school girl, to her friend: “That sign says Metro buses are fueled with
veggie oil, but they’re lyin’, because if they were, it would smell like French Fries in here.
Friend: “How do you know?”
MSG: “Oscar told me. Plus, I saw it on ‘Pimp My Ride’.”
Northbound 48, 8:40 AM
Middle-school boys, on...
Fashion:
Boy 1, to Boy 2: “Your pants are hella faded. Your mom wash those or something?”
Boy 2: “You’re supposed to wash ‘em.”
Boy 3: “Yeah, but you have to turn ‘em inside out.”
Boy 1: “Well, it looks like she used bleach. Tell your mom not to use bleach when
she washes your shit.”
Education:
Boy 4 (an outsider), to Boy 1: “You go to Meany?”
Boy 1: “Yeah.”
Boy 4: “I think you were in 6th grade when I was in 8th.”
Boy 1: “I didn’t go to Meany in 6th grade. I went to Triple A, but I got
suspended.”
Boy 4: “Where you going next year?”
Boy 1: “Franklin or The Beach, I guess. I already know: When I go to high school,
I’m getting suspended.”
Sexual orientation:
Boy 4, to Boy 1: “You have Miss Mendoza this year?”
Boy 1: “Miss Mendoza went to Mexico.”
Boy 4: “For real?”
Boy 1: “I think she left because everybody found out she was a lesbian. She told
the whole class and told us not to tell anybody, but we went around and told
everybody.”
Punctuality:
Boy 2, to Boy 3: “What time does first period start?”
Boy 1: “Second period started seven minutes ago.”
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