Non-Asian student to Asian student: Dude, I keep forgetting you’re Asian.
Asian student: I know! Me too!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/283448924/i-often-forget-im-not-asian.html
Overheard by: m. Jo.
Non-Asian student to Asian student: Dude, I keep forgetting you’re Asian.
Asian student: I know! Me too!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/283448924/i-often-forget-im-not-asian.html
Overheard by: m. Jo.
Chick on cell: David Hasselhoff just brushed past me. Mooing.
Coachella Music Festival
Indio, California
Overheard by: Brokeass Harem
Guy: So it’s her mom, her mom’s boyfriend, and her dad?
Girl: Yeah. It would be so awkward if her dad wasn’t gay.
Corpus Christi, Texas
Overheard by: it already is.
Student: Yeah… I don’t really take advice from a kid wearing a winter hat indoors, drinking white grape juice out of a measuring cup.
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York
Kid with lisp: Let’s investigate some underwear!
Fairwood, Washington
Overheard by: that won’t be in the children’s section…
Female voice over speakerphone: Maybe you shouldn’t listen to me. I just reached into my glass of milk to retrieve a cookie that I accidentally dropped to the bottom during dunking. Now I am covered in milk. I’ve got milk hands!
Fraternity guy: I thought you were trying to make your own metaphor, like “I don’t see the glass as half empty or half full, I see my hand in it retrieving cookies.”
Providence, Rhode Island
Overheard by: Wants No Part Of This
20-something #1: Yeah, see, that’s our problem: These girls are pushing 30 and their biological clocks are going off and all that.
20-something #2: Well, that wasn’t my problem before, she was 23 when I started dating her.
20-something #1 (thoughtfully): Yeah… that’s our other problem: time.
Airplane between Detroit and Las Vegas
Overheard by: ncs
Girl on cell: You know, like, I don’t feel tired, but, like, I know in my heart that I’m tired. You know?
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Just Me
TSA agent, looking at ID: So Judy*, how are you doing today?
50-something woman: Fine. How are you?
TSA agent: You know, living the dream.
Security Terminal
Airport, Minneapolis