Animals

Clerk: I love women. The only thing prettier than a woman is a deer.

Post Office
South Burlington, Vermont

Overheard by: Sweenan A. Mornstuy

Guy to friend: Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with it, but my hamster just isn't working right.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Not-at-all 21

Six-year-old girl at the zoo: (drops French fries one by one)
Dad: Why are you dropping French fries?
Six-year-old girl: To feed them!
Dad: No one wants your old French fries.
Six-year-old girl: You're an old French fry!

http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2008/06/sticks-and-stones.html

Overheard by: Dave

Teen girl: My brother got released from the loony bin today. Same day as he got a new roommate, who kills animals and has an extra Y chromosome. I'm like, “Goddamn!”

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

20-something pregnant girl to baby daddy: I don't think we can handle a pet.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/304049831/too-late.html

Overheard by: babies are way easier.

Giggly blonde teen: Ew, you know bestiality is illegal, right?
Giggly brunette teen: It wasn't bestiality!
Giggly blonde teen: And yet you know that your cat is good in bed?

Ontario
Canadia

College freshman girl: Wait… wait… Dinosaurs and vaginas!? (pause) Oh, now I get it!

Olympia, Washington

Overheard by: prefers dinosaurs

Statistics teacher: There is a correlation between cats and happiness. Cats make people happy. But not all cats. I still have nightmares about some cats. When I was a little girl, there was this cat, Greta, who lived outdoors. I wanted to pet her, but she scratched up my whole arm and got her claws into my protoplasm!

Atlanta, Georgia

Mother to young son: The sign says that polar bears are carnivores. That means they eat mostly plants, but will eat meat when they can find it.

Henry Vilas Zoo
Madison, Wisconsin

Overheard by: weeping for the future

Woman, looking at exhibit containing jellyfish: But where are their brains? Where do you think their brains are? Where would they keep their brains? Where are the brains? Where are their brains? The brains? Where do you think they keep the brains? Huh… I wonder where their brains are?

Aquarium
North Carolina

Overheard by: Kellllyyyyy