Woman: She knows 10 ways to make potatoes.
Man: She is so Indiana!
— Daniel Proudfoot
Readers are invited to submit Overheard Dialogue. There is only one rule: Your submission must be something you overheard someone saying, for real, no fiction. Here are some more:
A young man walking past me on a college campus. This is what I heard as he passed:
. . . She was from, like, the time of Christ . . .
— Mary MacGowan
Two women talking in the women’s locker room at the gym.
One says: Rick and I are going to have bacon on Sunday.
— Mary MacGowan
Two women sitting at sushi bar at King of the Roll in Portland, ME.
Woman1: Was she always a lesbian or is it a back and forth thing?
Woman2: It’s back and forth. Sort of an Anne Heche thing.
— Mary Colangelo
I’m leaving the grocery store at the same moment two men are walking into the store. One is reading aloud from a list, and says:
. . . Diet Coke, condoms . . .
— Mary MacGowan
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Okay, two rules.
The 2nd is that it has to be interesting in some way.
And I am the judge of that.
Submit to this plucky umbrella blog as a comment.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Songs for the Pure of Heart 
Sounds like fun!
unsouthernbelle, just start listening!
already wrote the poem about this, but this is why i love random lines, random bits of conversation. it’s like collage to me.
counterman talking to customer: oh sure i know walter! we go way back. he’s my cousin!
customer: no way! he’s my best friend!
counterman: (pause)…(typing sounds)….uh . . . he died, didn’t he?
thanks redmittengirl! and yes, your blog posts are very much about overhearing snippets of dialogue . . . you pull it all together though into stunningly beautiful poetic prose. this overheard dialogue is, well, something else altogether.