Questions

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.

Ten-year-old: Mom, what's “shagging”?
Mom: Um… It's like shedding. You know, like how the cat sheds hair on the couch?
Four-year-old: No, it's not. It's when two people have sex. Jeez!

Clarksville, Indiana

Guy: If you could put a moose and en elk in a wind tunnel, could you work out which one generates more lift better if they were the right way up or upside down?

London
England

Overheard by: Bemused

Teacher, on first day of school: So, did anything particularly exciting happen during your vacation?
Loud teenage girl at back of room: I lost my virginity… three times!

Edmonton
Alberta
Canadia

Chick #1: I worry that I'll become boring.
Chick #2: I think I'm more in danger of that than you.
Chick #1: What? You edit books about transvestite love!

Michigan

Overheard by: Meister E

Man wearing cargo pants, on day before Easter: So what's this foolishness about you guys being closed tomorrow?
YMCA staff member: Apparently, we're celebrating Easter.
Man wearing cargo pants: But you guys are pagan!

Naperville, Illinois

Overheard by: Lauren

Pretty girl to boy: How is bottle-feeding a baby hedgehog not on your to-do list?

Fairfield High School
Fairfield, Connecticut

Teen girl #1: Do you think they have those other elephants here? You know, the old hairy ones?
Teen girl #2: Mammoths? No, I don't think they do. Aren't they extinct?
Teen girl #1: No, I'm pretty sure they have them at the Werribee zoo. Well, they were on that cartoon, with all the ice.

Zoo
Australia

Overheard by: Brydee

Frat boy reading section titles: “Self-help, cooking, fiction.” …is fiction science?

Barnes & Noble
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: almost threw a book at him

Group of white guys: We’re visiting here from South Africa.
Loud drunk girl: Do you miss your people?

Arlington, Virginia