Questions

Dude #1: Man, this is hard.
Dude #2: So, do you use one hand or two?

Highway 16
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Male student to another, seriously: So you just came in your pants?

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York

Angry girl: He. Gave. Me. Go-no-rrhe-a!
Calm girl: So? (pause) You're not getting back with him?

Pierpont Dorm
UMass, Amherst

Middle-aged suit on cell: Yeah… Well, I don't know. (pause) Doesn't she have Alzheimer's? (pause) I don't care if she's your mother. (pause) Yeah, well, maybe she shouldn't be trading your stocks, then.

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: mo

Student: Is ‘too’ an adverb?
English professor: Why do you care?

http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/12/big-honking-update.html

Overheard by: maria

Science professor: This is plastic deformation, like what happens to those baby-seal catchers. You know, the plastic that comes around soda cans? Sometimes you catch penguins too, but those are much harder–they run really fast, and they have no regard for their bodies. They just throw themselves off cliffs.

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Blonde girl: I did this Facebook quiz the other day: “what kind of drunk are you?' It said that I was a “sexual, entertaining drunk.” It knows me so well!

Melbourne
Australia

Drunk blonde girl #1: I love those shoes. Where did you get them?
Drunk blonde girl #2 (in a haze, looking at drunk girl #3): I don't know. (to drunk girl #3) Gail, where did I get your shoes?

Frat Party
UC Berkeley, California

Overheard by: Uncle Salty

Woman holding long sweater: Excuse me, do you work here?
Employee: Yes.
Woman: What is this? Is this a dress?
Employee: It's one of those… long… sweaters…

H&M, Water Tower Place
Chicago, Illinois

Girl #1: Soooooo, how did staying at his place go?
Girl #2: Well? (smiles)
Girl #1: You opened the muffin shop, didn't you?
Girl #2: Yeah, well, only for a night.
Girl #1: Seriously? I thought we said that was a bad idea.
Girl #2: And a morning. Sorry.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/417242381/tonight-were-going-out-for-coffee.html

Overheard by: Ian