Overheard by Torontoist contributor Stephen Michalowicz at the Humber Loop one night at 4 a.m. A streetcar going to Long Branch arrives after a long wait. Rider: We’ve been waiting for more than an hour and a half. What the hell? Driver: Don’t worry. I’ll tell the mayor. He’ll get right on it. Streeter collects [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Ben Marans at the Gerrard Square Home Depot on Thursday. Middle-aged woman: What are you up to this weekend? Middle-aged guy: Not much. Just hanging with the family. Middle-aged woman: Oh…are you going to put up a Christmas tree, [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Becky Winninger, going northbound on the Yonge subway line on a weekday afternoon. A bunch of high school guys in uniforms are talking about grades. Guy #1: My English teacher has one of those double last names, and you [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Mary Kelly on a Tuesday morning, passing by the Yonge-College Starbucks. Immaculately dressed guy, talking on his cellphone: Absolutely not. I’m not lifting anything in my brand new suit.

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Madeleine Cohen at 9:10 a.m. on the St. Clair streetcar eastbound. Woman in her late twenties, to her friend: So, are you going to be a cat lady or a dead cat lady for Halloween?

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by Val Dodge at Ward 29‘s advance poll at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. A hurried voter, who parks her car in a handicapped spot without an apparent disabled permit but with an “Ironman finisher” bumper sticker, is casting her vote. Voter, [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard during a TIFF pre-festival screening. Two film writers are comparing notes about war movies they’ve seen recently. Film Writer: If I see one more returned soldier standing in a supermarket contemplating all the food choices and feeling the profound banality of [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Julian Solis outside Union Station this weekend, as Fan Expo went down at the nearby Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Ecstatic gamer: …Felicia Day: her favourite video game is my favourite video game!

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard on a Thursday morning at Queen and Yonge by Val Dodge, as two pedestrians cross the street. Pedestrian #1: Bike lanes interfere with cars. Pedestrian #2: Isn’t it the other way around?

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Christian Base on a Friday morning at the College Park BMO. A man holds the door open for one young woman, shortly after attempting to flirt with another one. Guy: After you. I insist—I’m Irish! Woman: No, after you. [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Wade Vroom on a southbound Spadina streetcar last Saturday. At College, a woman boards with her five-or-so-year-old son, and the two stand next to a man wearing cut-off jean shorts. Kid: What happened to your pants? Man: They’re cut-off [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Karen Whaley at Exile in Kensington Market. A girl is helping a male friend pick out a dress for his girlfriend. Girl: What’s her style like? Clueless boyfriend: Uhhhhhhh…well, she looks good naked?