Plans

Dude with a Maine accent and a baseball cap: "Hell yeah, I'm going to a fucking hotel to get drunk."




(Overheard by DM on Portland Street)

Wait, What Day Is It?

20-something woman to 20-something man: "I think it's, like, National Go Grocery Shopping Day."





(Overheard at the Back Cove Hannaford)

Spilled Beer

Guy on cell phone: "Well, you know I only cry over spilled beer."





(Overheard by Anonymous at the South Portland Target)

Uh Oh

Sports fan, to a friend: "If the Patriots lose, I'm going to burn a car. Then I'm going to stab the first Giants fan I see. You're safe, because I know you. But the next one I see is getting stabbed."





(Overheard by PM at the Front Room)

A Future

One 20-something woman: "I know you never thought I had a future with him."

Second 20-something woman: "He has a face tattoo."

First woman: "So?"

Second woman: "So, having a face tattoo is just like saying: 'Eff you, society. I never want a job with benefits.'"





(Overheard by MAJ in Monument Square)

Childhood Dreams

Coffee-drinking man #1: "It's not like I ever told my mom that I wanted to work at B&M my whole life."

Coffee-drinking man #2: "No little boy dreams of pig guts."




(Overheard by JR in front of Cumberland Farms)