Friends

Roomie #1: So, is your greatest strength still spooning?
Roomie #2: I told you, we're re not getting a cat!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/430109662/to-spoon-with.html

Overheard by: roomie numero tre.

Girl to pals in line for restroom: … So now I’m dating my boss, my landlord, and financial advisor…
Friend: Wow, that’s intense.

DeVos Performance Hall
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Overheard by: Caty

Girl: So Natalie Portman is speaking tonight. I want to go.
Boy: What is it about?
Girl: Poverty, but who cares? It’s Natalie Portman.
Boy: Yeah, fuck poverty, she’s hot.

University
Berkeley, California

20-something girl looking at picture: Isn't he so hot with his nunchucks?”
20-something guy friend: Those are called “muttonchops.”

Bar
Connecticut

Middle-aged woman: My wedding ring from my first marriage has new meaning now.
Friend: What's that?
Middle-aged woman: When I lost all that weight and it didn't fit anymore, I took it as a sign to divorce the bastard and marry Jesus Christ.
Friend: Why don't you just wear it on your toe instead?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/455563429/that-doesnt-have-the-same-effect.html

Overheard by: good lord.

Chick: Hey, congratulations! I heard you was gonna be a father.
Guy: Yeah, she’s due in, like, three months.
Chick: Donna is gonna be so jealous. She wanted to be your baby-mama.
Guy: She still can be — I been waitin’ on that girl forever.

Green Line E train
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: vangundy

Woman #1: I can’t believe they set you up.
Woman #2: I know. I mean, the guy did not even have a college degree. I don’t want to sound like an elitist, but I am a doctor. What were they thinking?

http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/05/doctor-love.html

Overheard by: dave

Girl #1 to friends: Anybody can be a cell phone.
Girl #2: That's a good t-shirt.

Hampton, Virginia

Overheard by: S. H.

Female friend: I think there are no nude pictures of me… (pause) …On the internet.

Münster
Germany

Girl #1 to friend (indicating a cream to get rid of razor burn bumps on the bikini area): Does this stuff work okay?
Girl #2: Yeah, it works, it just smells kinda funny.
Girl #1: I don’t care how it smells, it’s goin’ next to my vagina. I don’t need no strawberries.

Target
Winchester, Virginia

Overheard by: Kendra