Four-year-old girl on push scooter, to mum: The steering is counter-intuitive!
Oxfordshire
England
Four-year-old girl on push scooter, to mum: The steering is counter-intuitive!
Oxfordshire
England
Tram driver to very black coworker: Have you been on vacation again? You've got a great tan going on!
Gothenburg
Sweden
Overheard by: Dan Sebastian
Announcement: There's a gray car parked outside, four feet into the street.
Older woman: It's mine. I don't park cars; I just sort of abandon them.
Portsmouth, Virginia
(Mustang Sally is playing in background)
Guy: I dated a girl in high school who called herself Mustang Sally and me Cowboy Bill.
Girl: Is that the girl you kissed?
Guy: No, we just wrestled. She was weird. I was weird. It worked out…badly.
Video Store
Auckland
New Zealand
Guy: I decided I would do a little social experiment. So I went to the gas station and bought a chocolate muffin and sat down outside the door. Then this guy passed me, so I shoved the muffin in my mouth and started singing “What if God Was One of Us,” with little pieces of the muffin falling out of my mouth. It was great.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/299433048/call-it-a-social-experiment-if-that-makes-you-feel-better.html
Overheard by: julie
Man: You look familiar.
Woman: I think we are neighbors. 1st and Bates?
Man: Yeah, we live on the 1st Street side.
Woman: Ah, I live near the crackhouse on Bates.
Man: Can you be more specific?
Woman: The red crackhouse on Bates.
dcist.com
Sober girl: Look, all I'm saying is, I wouldn't fucking mess with her. She's clinically insane.
Drunk girl: But you know, I think she's really smart. There are those people, you know, that are so smart they're like actually crazy… Real mental, and we just think they're weird, but they're not! They have like, an IQ of 200!
Sober girl: You do realize that she drew pictures of her friends decapitated, right?
Wellington
New Zealand
Overheard by: Were they talking about the same person?
Teenage girl to friend: I feel like if you eat my hair, we'll be more connected.
Fair Haven, New Jersey
Girl #1, holding up box of Kellogg's frosted flakes and reading: Oh, shit. Oh, fuck.
Girl #2: What?
Girl #1: There aren't any directions.
Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts
Overheard by: jedusor
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
