"Can't talk right now, in the middle of work, will call you back next week."
 - Overheard on Atalaya Mountain trail

"Well, I guess we could go to Rouge Cat and look at the gays."
 - Overheard on the Plaza

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"Hmmm…buttered buns…sounds kinda nasty."
 - Overheard at Walmart

"This is just like Fire Island!"
 - Overheard at Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

 “You are great lubrication for conversation.”
—Overheard at Native Sounds Store

“I gave up dating. They were either living with their parents, fighting with their ex-wives or on disability of some kind.”
—Overheard at Dollar Tree

 "You think moated cities are a thing of the past? Just go to Los Alamos; that place is a castle."
 - Overheard at Tune-Up Café

"I'm so sick of my job I'm forgetting to go."
 - Overheard at Bali Women's dinner party

"OK, I'll bring my sluttiest shoes."
 - Overheard at Santa Fe Baking Company and Café

"Santa Fe is the opposite of Connecticut: a nice place to visit but an awful place to live."
 - Overheard at Agave Lounge

 - Overheard at Santa Fe Community College

"We're teenage girls. We have more insight into, like, emotions."
 - Overheard at Travel Bug Coffee Shop

"Anyone with gut illness is in a state of forced emotional growth."
- Overheard at Whole Foods Market

"Whenever you talk about intestinal illness, it becomes a very spiritual conversation."
- From the same conversation

Man reading menu outside Sushi Land East: "So is this, like, a Japanese place?"


"May I have a bowl of chile? Could I have the chile on the side?"
- Overheard in a booth at Tia Sophia's

 "Give us two more of the Gilmore Girls. We use it as a drinking game. Every time one of them cries, you take a shot. It's really hard to stand up after one episode."
 - Two women at counter of Video Library

"I would enjoy penis if I was paid for it."
 - Overheard at Cowgirl

 "I fell on my head a lot as a child, so I have no sense of smell. So, to me, farts are just funny noises people make with their butts."
 - Gentleman to clerks at Video Library

"…recycling water directly from sewer to tap…"
 - Overheard from an environmental report on KUNM radio

"Our doctor must be running a little behind."
 - Overheard in a local proctologist’s waiting room

 "I would say that 2 inches never felt so good!"
- Overheard in the morning at Ski Santa Fe after a small storm

"This state's motto should be Stupid and Proud of It."
- Overheard at a dinner party

 "My favorite Christmas lights are taillights; glad my house guests are gone."
 - Overheard at La Choza

"You know, the one shaped like a stop sign, with four or five sides."
 - Overheard at Regal Stadium 14, referring to a cheese grater

"So have you got any 100s?"
- Customer to a teller at Los Alamos National Bank on Galisteo Street

"You can tell the people who haven't been in trouble before. They look all scared."
- Overheard at the Santa Fe Judicial Court complex

"Do you know when their spring collection comes out?"
- Overheard at the Goodwill on Cerrillos Road

"Oh, look, a raccoon. Those are natural, right? Like, from nature?"
- Overheard at Moon Rabbit Toys

First woman: "Don't you think Gandhi was, like, the sexiest vegetarian ever?"
Second woman (giggles): "Yeah, he died of starvation."
- Overheard in the Women’s Tub at Ten Thousand Waves

Docent at Museum of International Folk Art to a group of middle school students after explaining that Andean civilizations often mounted ceramic tiles on top of their houses:

Do any of you have something you put on your house?

Girl: A wreath.
Boy: A ristra.
Second boy: Satellite dish?

Overheard at a calendar store at Santa Fe Place:
Customer: "Do you have a Denver Broncos calendar?"
Clerk: "No, but we have a Dallas Cowboys one."

"I was brave. I saw Santa."
-Little girl speaking to a stranger at the DeVargas Center US Post Office

"I can't do that. I just hired him. He has three kids."
-Woman on her cell phone at Flying Star Cafe

"Part of me wants to read it because it bugs you that much."
-Woman on the phone with her fiance

 "I want an empire. I'm going to build one, like Jay-Z."
-Girl in complete seriousness at Tribes Coffeehouse


"I can't wait to get my tattoo. I'm legal on Friday!"
-Busser at Flying Star Cafe

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