Joro Tebi
Overheardinnewyork is a site where people post what they overheard in New York City. What a brilliant idea! There are great one-liners as well as some funny conversations. Here are some examples…
I Totally Know That Song
Puerto Rico chick: He likes that—what do you call it? That the black people make...that "tooka tooka tooka"...?
Nuyorican chick: Rap music.
--South Bronx
Black chick #1: I told her to keep her badussy hands off my sandwich
Black chick #2: "Badussy"?
Black chick #1: Yeah, It's like butt and pussy.
--Union Square
Overheard by: Mary Phillips-Sandy
The Cookies are Red
Columbia student #1: Would you like a free cookie from the Columbia anti-Socialist club?
Columbia student #2: Shouldn't that be "earn a cookie"?
--MorningsideHeights
I know that Ethiopians can be extremely funny. Let us start sharing the funny stuff we overheard/encountered. It could be stories or one-liners. If your story is in Amharic, feel free to write using Latin alphabets…we will try to convert the texts into Ge-ez and post them back up.
I will start:

Indianapolis

a guy and his girl walking on the shores of lake awassa watching the fishes come out from underneath the rocks.
GF: hodye, keyet new yemiwetut
BF: sex eyardegu neber
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Friend1- ahun qey kerabat kemen gar yehedal?
Friend 2- ke melasu gar (Comment this)
Friend replies - Yimokal bitcha, kidim milasen chimir new yalabegne...
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