SFR’s long-running, community-generated content feature includes snippets of overheard conversations that speak volumes about life in Santa Fe. Thanks to everyone who added to the narrative in 2020. Submissions have slowed somewhat due to social distancing this year. Please send us what you hear, even if it’s on Zoom or at the kitchen table: overheard@sfreporter.com.
Nov. 11
“Why would they get rid of the statues? I mean, they are paid for and everything.”
—Overheard at family dinner
“Can I ask a hypothetical question about something that may have happened at my last workplace?”
—Overheard at sexual harassment training
Oct. 28
"At the end of this, I'm getting a mask tattooed on my leg."
—Overheard on a downtown porch
“I tried to throw it up, but it was mostly water.”
—Overheard on a downtown street
Sept. 30
“I can’t stand this mask, it is like wearing a muzzle.”
—Overheard from a woman stomping away from La Montanita Co-op
Sept. 16
“I was tipsy at the vet the other morning.”
—Overheard at Rowley Farmhouse Ales
Aug. 19
“Hey, Dad, I want the real school, not virtuous school.”
—Overheard at Market Street Albertsons
Aug. 26
"I wish the presidential election was tomorrow; I don't think this campaign
is helping anything right now."
—Overheard at the downtown Post Office
July 22
“I wonder if they’ve tried combatting COVID with bowling shoe spray?”
—Overheard in DeVargas Center
July 8
Male teenager: “I hate having to put on a mask to buy groceries.”
Thirtysomething mom: “If you don’t like wearing a mask when you are out in public, you won’t like being hooked up to a ventilator.”
—Overheard at Sprouts
June 24
“What I’m saving on lipstick, I’m just spending on mascara!”
—Overheard from masked person outside Whole Foods
May 27
“I don’t think I’d be getting through this without my rabbit.”
—Overheard on the Arroyo Chamiso urban trail
May 6
One woman: “What is it?”
The other: “I think it’s art.”
—Overheard on the River Trail
April 15
“With no bartender at home, who’s supposed to cut me off?”
—Overheard from a fellow donor at the blood bank on Rodeo Road
April 29
“Yelling ‘Get the fuck away from me’ is now a socially acceptable form of communication.”
—Overheard the corner of Washington and Marcy
March 18
"I think my wife has the cabrona virus."
—Overheard at DeVargas Center Starbucks
March 4
"I know I'm not a vampire, because I hate the sight of blood."
—Overheard in an emergency room
February 5
"I used to have dial-up and it was much, much faster than this!"
—Overheard at LaFarge Public Library from a patron attempting to use the internet
Jan. 29
"I was listening to the radio and heard about that Coors virus."
"You mean coronavirus?"
"Yes. The beer one."
—Overheard at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
Jan. 8
"Jesus, can you imagine how open her lower three chakras must be?"
—Overheard at Honeymoon Brewery during New Moon Cabaret immediately after a belly dance performance