Blonde girl to boyfriend: I think I'd make a good drug addict.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/348828751/everybody-would.html
Overheard by: uhh
Blonde girl to boyfriend: I think I'd make a good drug addict.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/348828751/everybody-would.html
Overheard by: uhh
Older woman on phone: June* is in jail right now, but she'll be into work a little later.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/349982709/hopefully-following-a-shower.html
Overheard by: o_o
Girl to female friend: Yes, if I get the job at the CDC I will celebrate your chlamydia as an inspirational story.
http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2008/06/someone-was-on-kiss-cam-wtoo-many-boys.html
Overheard by: Ian
Employee #1: It's been such a slow day. I feel like I've been here forever.
Employee #2: I know, right?
Employee #1: How about you? Today been slow for you too?
Employee #3: Nope. I discovered time travel.
Hardware Store
Agoura Hills, California
Professor: In a year or two, you're going to graduate and have to face the hard decision about what to do with your life. Some of you will be lawyers, some of you will be engineers, and some of you will opt for a life of crime. When you do, and you get caught, roll over on the person you're caught with, and ask for absolute immunity. I hope you don't choose a life of crime, but if you do, at least be smart about it.
Pre-law Class
USC
Communications professor: There are no stupid questions. If you have a question, that means you don't understand something. If you don't ask the question you will be behind for the day, for the week, semester, and the rest of your life. You will find yourself sucking cheap wine out of a paper bag and sleeping on a grate.
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
Girl to friend: I was like “whatever, bitch! You're not even a real registered nurse. Like you'll be working full time in a doctor's office making $20 an hour, and I'll be a real nurse making $20,000 a year.”
Texas State University
30-something large man: That book by George Orwell, 1984, is a prophecy!
Skinny guy sitting next to him: Yeah, yeah, man.
30-something large man: Because in 1985, the government took over, and they were the ones selling all the crack and dope. I would know. I was working for them.
Transit Bus
Olympia, Washington
Overheard by: scooting farther away
Hipster chick to hipster dude: If you could do any profession, what would you do? Like, if you gave your whole self to something?
Hipster dude: I don't know.
Hipster girl: I would be a tree surgeon.
Hipster dude: What's that?
Hipster girl: Like, it's an environmental way to trim trees. I would go around climbing trees all day and snipping them, and like, live in the forest. But I probably won't do that.
Hipster dude: Oh.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Old Polish lady, bitching about price of handmade jewelry: So you're paying for the hand job and not the stone?
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
