Leaving an indoor climbing wall
Guy: Can I tell you something without making you uncomfortable?
Girl: Uhh (uncomfortable expression) what?
Guy: When you were climbing, that harness made your butt look REALLY nice.

UMD climbing wall
Overheard by another climber.

Mom (to 1-year old): See those ducks? You like all those ducks? Those are called geese. Yeah. Geese! They’re real neat birds. Your daddy shoots ‘em!

Lake Calhoun
Overheard by Nanny pushing the tire swing.

Boss: Please call Building Services and find out who lowered my desk last night and why.
Admin: Uh, are your sure? I’ll come over and look.
Boss: My desk is lower.
Admin: Let me measure your desk, are you sure you didn’t adjust your chair? (measures two nearby desks, all the same height.) Look, your desk is the same height as the others.
Boss: It’s not the chair. The desk is lower.
Admin: Ok.

Target Corp.

Earnest GenX female business traveler to earnest GenX male business traveler: So why don’t they just put all the eggs and all the sperm together and let THEM decide?

NWA plane waiting for a gate at MSP
Overheard by Perplexed.

Older female social worker at the county: Yeah, so I have an intern too, she’s Korean, and she looks Asian too.

Hennepin County
Overheard by the other Asian intern.