Professor: So how many inches do you think are in a foot?
Student: Oh I'd say about 100.
Professor (speaking to class): I love picking on the foreign kids on the first day of class.
Normal, Illinois
Overheard by: AJ
Professor: So how many inches do you think are in a foot?
Student: Oh I'd say about 100.
Professor (speaking to class): I love picking on the foreign kids on the first day of class.
Normal, Illinois
Overheard by: AJ
Girl on cell: Yeah, he's a friend of my friend in California. He killed those two people… Oh, you saw him on the news? That's a shitty picture they have of him on tv, I hope they get a better picture soon.
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: trying to study here
Volunteer #1: We can't be selling this music, it's devil worship.
Volunteer #2: Well, that's the ACLU. The ACLU ought to be abolished. They're why there's all this stuff around.
Customer: Why are you getting rid of that? Don't you think people ought to be able to choose for themselves?
Volunteer #2: Harry Potter is a witch!
Customer: I think we ought to get rid of Bush and Cheney, put them in jail–they're mass murderers!
Volunteers #1 & #2: (silence)
Joshua Tree Thrift Shop
California
Overheard by: Celeste Mann
Mum: Do you want some McDonald's for lunch?
Seven-year-old girl: Ew, no, I'd rather die, I'll just have a latte, I think I'm getting a migraine.
Wahroonga Station
Sydney
Australia
Teenage boy to father: I've been talking to a Thai lady on the internet and, I'll bring her to New Zealand for only $50,000!
Father: Is she genuine?
Teenage boy: Genuine Thai lady-boy!
Auckland
New Zealand
Overheard by: Tessa
Mom: Then I'd have to kill you.
Daughter: Why?
Mom: Because that's my job as a mother.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/391884301/she-used-to-have-two-kids.html
Overheard by: glad I'm not her daughter
Guy (looking around suspiciously): Yeah, well, it was a couple baseball bats really. Let's just say I was really in the game last night, so to speak.
Beachwood Place Mall
Beachwood, Ohio
Overheard by: Just Buying Votives, Sir
Flamboyant male: Fuck you, Gatorade! Fuck you!
SUNY Purchase
New York
Very large gross woman: So, I'm gonna need a serious douching when I get home.
Friend: It's Tuesday.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/389126149/so-many-questions-yet-i-want-none-of-the-answers.html
Overheard by: threw up in his mouth
Single mom to four-year-old son: Will you just stop being a cupcake and go ask him?
Four-year-old (sighing, then approaching a man nearby): Excuse me? Do you think my mom is pretty?
Manchester, New Hampshire
Overheard by: Taylor
