Aspenite to friend trying on jacket: I like white on you.
Friend: This is ivory.
Aspen, Colorado
Overheard by: GGary
Aspenite to friend trying on jacket: I like white on you.
Friend: This is ivory.
Aspen, Colorado
Overheard by: GGary
20-something to mother: She's really cute on the rare occasions when she has a tennis ball in her mouth.
Supermarket
Caroline Springs, Victoria
Australia
Professor to girl walking into class with a large box: Wow, you have such a big package! (entire class starts laughing) I am so getting fired today.
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: miao miao
Overly dramatic English teacher: You will have the face you deserve when you are eighty. I will be beautiful.
AC Flora High School
Columbia, South Carolina
Girl #1: You don't even like Jesus.
Girl #2: I don't like Jesus, but I like the way he walks.
San Francisco, California
60-year-old woman, spotting a friend walking towards her: Oh, fancy seeing you here!
Friend: How nice to see you! But no hugs below the waist this time.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/455563423/its-getting-harder-to-explain.html
Overheard by: curious.
Six-year-old child to teacher, upon seeing her new haircut for the first time: What's wrong with your hair?
Teacher: What do you mean “what's wrong with my hair”?
Child (with eyes downcast): It just looks so beautiful.
Teacher: Well, thank you.
New Westminster
BC
Canadia
Female cashier: I'm tired, and really not sure why.
Man checking out: You want to know what causes tiredness?
Female cashier: What?
Man checking out: Either too much sex or not enough sex. By the looks of you, it must be too much sex.
Albertson's
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Overheard by: Not tired, so I must be getting enough sex
Girl #1: Well, if you're totally past it, it won't matter.
Girl #2: But I'm not totally past it, and it does matter. I hate that I did that to someone. And I know it sets feminism way back, but…I mean, Jesus, before I met him, I was like, “No way am I gonna reproduce!” And then…Bam! I'm like a fucking salmon Metro-Northing it for unrequited spawn.
Girl #1: You weren't gonna have kids?
Girl #2: Homie, I can't even handle my period.
Girl #1: I hear ya.
Girl #2: I'm not sure his kind of crazy and my kind of crazy would translate well into offspring.
Girl #1: But your kind of beautiful and his kind of beautiful would make for adorable children.
Girl #2: Oh, shut the fuck up, I'm not beautiful. I have no forehead.
Girl #1: You have a fine forehead.
Girl #2: I have a threehead.
Girl #1: It's a fine forehead. If your forehead was a person and mine was a person, my forehead would totally have sex with your forehead.
Girl #2: I can't believe you. I haven't talked to you face-to-face for more than a year and within ten minutes of reuniting, you're already talking about forehead sex.
(she looks up)
Girl #2: Oh, shit! That's my mentor, and I think she just heard me say “forehead sex.”
Sarah Lawrence College
Westchester County, New York
20-something girl: I don't care how much bathrooom sex he's had; he's still really, really sexy. I mean, just look at him. Sooo sexy.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/443762988/that-explains-the-bathroom-sex.html
Overheard by: bringin sexy back