Young suit #1: So how was that new restaurant you went to?
Young suit #2: It was okay. (points at girl next to him) She had a salad, she liked it. But I don’t eat salads.
Girl (pleased): It tasted like leaves.
Rosslyn, Virginia
Young suit #1: So how was that new restaurant you went to?
Young suit #2: It was okay. (points at girl next to him) She had a salad, she liked it. But I don’t eat salads.
Girl (pleased): It tasted like leaves.
Rosslyn, Virginia
Mini-skirt girl: Her name is Pearl, so she’s either an 80-year-old white lady from Connecticut…
Suit: Or an 18-year-old, French-speaking lieutenant in an Asian motorcycle gang.
Mini-skirt girl: Yours is weirdly specific.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Overheard by: Agreed
Female suit #1: She’s just sad and lonely.
Female suit #2: That’s no excuse for Mormonism.
Santa Barbara, California
Young suit #1: Oh, yeah, I start my steroids tomorrow.
Young suit #2: Oh, that’s good. I need to do that.
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rose
Casual guy: It’s amazing how chummy they are now.
Guy in suit: Chummy? They’re like having weird gay-slash-Jewish sex.
Thornton School of Music, USC
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: Yapplebee
Suit #1, referring to scar on suit #2’s throat: What happened to you?
Suit #2: My daughter is batshit. What of it?
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: Julia
Female suit to another: So…how do we do things that make it look like we’re doing things?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/339378523/have-you-ever-worked-for-the-government.html
Overheard by: corporate America, we have a problem
Suit on cell: I just landed in Maine. I mean San Diego. What am I thinking?
Airport
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: weary traveler
Train conductor, to teenage girl with feet on chair: Can you read? (points to sign)
Teenage girl: What…? Oh, sorry. (takes her feet down, conductor walks away)
Suit: He would have never done that if you were a guy.
New Jersey Transit
40-something suit: You know how sometimes you can love a dog so much it’s, like, illegal?
40-something woman: (looks at him blankly)
40-something suit: You know? So that it’s, like, illegal?
40-something woman, looking straight ahead: Umm, let’s look at Halloween candy.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/438564745/calling-peta.html
Overheard by: I love my dog, but not that much
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist