Confused chick: Excuse me, sir, I don’t know which line to go into… This says ‘resident,’ but I’m not from here — I’m from New York.
Homeland Security agent: It’s still this line.
O’Hare Airport immigration line
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: amused traveller
Girl #1: Yeah, and so I threw the Internet cord from the top of the fire escape down to the bottom instead of walking all the way down. It was pretty exciting.
Girl #2: Ummm, okay then…
Girl #1: Well, it was okay! It’s like throwing a baby down the stairs — you know you shouldn’t, but you do it anyway!
Girl #2: Okay…
Illinois
Teenybopper #1: Oooh, look at the nail polish I just got!
Teenybopper #2: I never use Sally Hansen nail polish anymore, because they test on animals.
Teenybopper #1: Really? What does that even mean?
Teenybopper #2: I don’t know. Something about pigs, I think…
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: EL
Lady holding bottle of Chardonnay: Does this taste like a white wine?
New Albany, Indiana
Overheard by: liquor store counter jockey
Woman: I don’t keep any money in my billfold. You know, in case I lose it. So, what’s your favorite Bible verse?
Macaroni Grill
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Overheard by: onethingleadstoanother
Curious brunette: Hey, is that casting agent friend of yours gay?
Exasperated brunette: No! That’s the guy I sleep with sometimes. Why does everyone keep asking me that?
Rosepepper Cantina
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Amy Rose
College girl on cell: So, it’s all good? Cause I’m just re-using the same guys over and over! My number doesn’t go up!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/396687245/only-one-of-us-is-fooled.html
Overheard by: just eating my pizza
Teacher: Okay, now what you do think is the chance of being killed by being struck by lightning?
Bimbette: Ummmm… probably like, one in two.
Class: (silence)
Teacher: One in two?
Bimbette: Wait! Make that one in ten.
Classroom
Sydney
Australia
Self-centered bimbo to another: I love texting myself, but I told myself: “let me see if I can hold off doing that til Sunday, to see if I can live alone.”
Mamaroneck, New York
Bimbette: … You, like, learn to flip people on the mat. My mom knows how to do that. She works with retarded kids and they, like, have come at her with scissors and tried to cut her throat before.
Barista: That doesn’t sound like a job I’d want to have.
Bimbette: No, she loves it.
Starbucks
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Overheard by: I just want my mocha, please
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