Minnesota

Girl #1: And I was like: “How many depressed lab rats do you have to weigh and kill to figure that out?”
Girl #2: What?
Girl #3: 37.5, apparently.

Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota

Fashionable, ditzy young woman at cheese counter: A lot of girls cheat on their taxes because they just don't know how to do them.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/413265171/if-by-a-lot-you-mean-you-then-yes.html

Overheard by: dismayed feminist

Voice #1: I'm in the wrong bathroom!
Voice #2: I'm in the wrong bathroom, too!

Airport
Minnesota

Teen boy, jokingly: So, yeah — I was thinking about getting my testicles removed, so that way no one can kick me there anymore.
Teen girl, mortified: No, don’t! You need one to live!

Fairfax, Minnesota

Overheard by: Amused friend

Girl, getting wash and cut: Then I was walking around for a few months without an elbow.
Stylist: Wow!
Girl: So finally in July they put my elbow back in.
Stylist: Well, that's good.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: porkchop on a stick

Volleyball girl: How come you have a painting of a football helmet on the wall but nothing for us?
Athletic trainer: I don't know. Maybe I'll paint something for you guys.
Volleyball girl: Yeah! You should paint a whole mirage!

Gustavus Adolphus College
Minnesota

Bimbette #1: I would love to be a fireman! You work, like, three days a week, and when you’re there you can just, like, sit and watch the news until the fire alarm goes off!
Bimbette #2: Yeah, but you’d have to watch people’s houses burn down.
Bimbette #1: Yeah… That’d be, like, really depressing.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Male student: I like your Skittles.
Female student: Don't look at them!

Eveleth, Minnesota

Overheard by: deathmap

Very serious, very excited young woman: He's finally becoming a person! He got Facebook and he texts full-sized messages!

Owatonna, Minnesota

Overheard by: feels sorry for those without technology…

Girl on cell: So I learned over the weekend that my parents are swingers. I know, it was so weird! It's like, okay, so on the weekends you go out and have sex with other people… Yeah… Do we have practice today?

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, Minnesota

Overheard by: Rose