You Could Just Steal the Boxed Set, Sweetie.

Teenage daughter: Mom, I have a plan for my future.
Mother: And what's that?
Teenage daughter: Save someone's life so they are indebted to me and will buy me the complete Twilight Zone boxed set.
Mother: Between this and your brother who I haven't seen in four days, I don't think I screwed up at all.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Overheard by: Julia

Posted on October 3, 2015
Colorado, Compare and contrast, Family ties, Moms, Parenting, Stupidity, Teens, TV shows

Sometimes the Judgment of Solomon Backfires

Blonde female teen to friend: Here. I'll trade you her right boob for the left side of her crotch.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/362494227/shes-trying-to-cheat-you.html

Overheard by: I'm really glad I'm not her.

Posted on September 30, 2015
Body parts, Default, Friends, Girls, Offers and requests, Overheard in Minneapolis, Teens, Weirdness

Theme Parks Are Quite Different in Europe

Loud, fat american teen: I have to take the biggest leak ever. Pause. And then I want to check out those hedgehogs.

Market in Freiburg, Germany

Posted on September 21, 2015
Animals, Default, Etiquette, Fat people, Germany, Pee, Stores, Teens, Tourists, Wishes

It's a Tale As Old As Time…

Father to teen daughter: We've got the rubber suits, but we're out of talcum powder!

Concord, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Emma W.

Posted on September 2, 2015
Cleanliness, Clothes, Dads, Massachusetts, Teens

Don’t Even Bother to Answer Me

Mother: Why do people like you?
Teen daughter: What?!
Mother: I mean, why do people like to talk to you and be your friend? I just don’t get it.

Fairfax, California

Posted on August 31, 2015
California, Default, Family ties, Girls, Insults, Jerks, Moms, Questions, Relationships, Teens

Clinging to the Side Of the Bus With Magnets Was Pretty Clever, Though

Teen girl: My other friend is, like, sooo dumb, I'm so glad she isn't dead!

66 Bus
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: kerminator

Posted on August 31, 2015
Bus, Compare and contrast, Death & dying, Default, Girls, Massachusetts, Stupidity, Teens

…Mine Just Tells Me to Burn Things.

Mother to teenage daughter: Are you sure you don't want anything?
Skinny teenage daughter: Nah. (shrugs) My uterus isn't happy.
(mother raises a quizzical eyebrow)
Skinny teenage daughter: It's all like: “hello, I'm a uterus, and I'm going to bloat my way through for awhile, and push Ms Stomach organ out through Ms Bellybutton.”
Mother: Oh.

Burger King
Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: i just work here…