Four-year-old boy, wielding plastic sword and shield: It's a knife!
Boy's mother: No, it's a sword.
Four-year-old boy: No! It's a knife!
Boy's mother: No, no, no, Danny. Knives are for cutting. Swords are for vanquishing.
99 B-Line
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: Frodo Baggins
Loud woman to friend: She stayed with him even though he had a mullet. That's true love!
St. Augustine, Florida
Professor: This assignment is worth 20 points, but doing it can only earn you up to 18. The only way to get the last two points is to dress up.
Exasperated student: As what?!
Eastern Michigan University
50-something guy in another cube: They're all dead. But that's cool.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/473032302/its-quieter.html
Overheard by: a volunteer
Man wearing 9/11 conspiracy t-shirt to friend: Did I tell you I'm working on debunking the discovery channel?
University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Overheard by: Vejewsbian
Female college student: Do boys still really have cooties at thirteen?
Male college student: Nope. That’s when they get penises.
Tempe, Arizona
Overheard by: Meghan
Young male tourist to young female tourist, after taking group photo: You are such a pirate whore!
Hollywood, California
Conductor: Welcome aboard to all the new passengers. The time is 9:11. Actually… Let’s make that 9:12. That’s better, isn’t it?
Washington, DC
Little boy to tour bus driver: Thank you.
Bus driver: Now that's a sign of good parenting.
Parent, as he steps off bus: Yeah. We're takin' him on a whiskey tour.
Jack Daniels Distillery
Lynchburg, Tennessee
College student, annoyed: I'm Thomas Jefferson and I'm going to write you a sentence that's ten pages long!
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota
