Mormon girl: When I grow up, I want to celebrate Chanukah! I mean, I just like Jews. I like Jew food, Jew noses, Jew hair styles… Oh my gosh, I love those curly bangs! I just want to pull one and watch it go “sproinnnnng!”
IHOP
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: I'm Jewish, but surprisingly NOT offended…
Man to patiently smiling girlfriend: Well…uh…I make quite a *mean* tuna fish curry. Uh…*or* a sardine curry. Uh…and have been *ridiculed* for it.
Clifton
Bristol
England
Overheard by: Sarah
Middle-aged woman #1: I'm putting stuff on my plate and I don't even know what it is!
Middle-aged woman #2: Me too!
Texas de Brazil
Aruba
Overheard by: Why Are They So Stupid?
Traveling college student to perplexed Cambodian waiter: What? You don’t have French toast? Weren’t you guys colonized by the French or something?
Restaurant
Phom Penh
Cambodia
(at 4:30 pm)
College girl #1: Well, we could go get dinner now, but it's really early for that.
College guy: Well, it's not too early if you are old.
College girl #2: Yeah, they always start rolling into the restaurant about this time.
College girl #1: Really? I can't wait to be old!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/363289326/it-happens-earlier-than-you-think.html
Overheard by: I'm not in that big of a rush
Girlfriend: I'm gonna get a black wig and a skirt, and I'm putting body-glitter on you and doing your hair like you're in 90210 and you're going as Edward. It'll be like ironic.
Boyfriend: I'm gonna put some mayonnaise on my pants and go as that “jizzed in my pants” guy.
Girlfriend: No, you're not.
Gainesville, Florida
Girl #1: Hey, what’s your shoe size?
Girl #2: Six.
Girl #1: I’ve got a pair of shoes that would fit you, if you want them. They smell vaguely of bacon.
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canadia
Guy: You know what’s actually really good? Cocoa Puffs and bacon!
Chick: (blank stare)
Guy: Once I had them both and I ate one bite of Cocoa Puffs and one bite of bacon and they mixed in my mouth and it was good!
Chick: You make me want to vomit.
Harris Teeter
Bristow, Virginia
Dude #1: We win. Majority rules.
Chick: But Erin* agrees with me! It’s a tie!
Dude #1: Yeah, but you’re women. No one cares about your opinion.
Dude #2: Unless you could put it in some sort of sandwich form.
High school classroom
Englewood, Colorado
