Kids

Kid pointing squirt gun at lady passerby: Just pretend they’re bullets.

Geneva, Illinois

Cafeteria kid: Acting would be really boring if we were all giant slugs.

High School Cafeteria
Victoria, B.C.
Canadia

Overheard by: Sefie

Five-year-old boy: I don’t like that… It doesn’t taste good.
Father, picking up frozen dinner: Oh, I’ll make it taste good!

Topsham, Maine

Overheard by: Morgan

Small child: Mmm! Oooh! Mmm! Mommy, that feels good when it comes out!
Mother, whispering: Shut up.

Restroom, Tanglewood
Lenox, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Stephanie

Cholo #1, tapping roughly on glass: Heeeey monkey! Oh! Monkey!
Treehugger in sandals with socks, hysterically: Stop it, stop it! Oh my god!
(cholo #2 and #3 snicker and speak Spanish to each other)
Cholo #1: Crazy gringa…needa get laid.
Treehugger: Well, at least I didn't have ten kids by the time I was twenty! Like your mother!

National Zoo
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Meaggoo

Lounging suburban man to passers-by: Your kids look like they want to do the chicken limbo.

Toronto
Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: The cool aunt

Six-year-old boy in coffee shop: Mom! I did not come here to talk!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/415185975/just-get-me-my-milk.html

Overheard by: he's got an agenda

Six-year-old boy to brother: You know who'll save you? Abraham Lincoln. Too bad he's dead now. He'll rise from the dead! And raise chickens! His chicken powers can't save you now!

Baltimore, Maryland

Little girl to dad: Daddy?
Dad: Yes?
Little girl: Why can't brothers and sisters get married?

Toronto
Canadia

Woman to boy: Put a sweater on!
Boy's mother: No, he's fine.
Boy: I know I'm fat but I still get cold.

Sarajevo
Bosnia