Early-20s woman: (laughing merrily) I don’t usually overdraft much, but I overdrafted like 16 times last month.

downtown Minneapolis Target store
Overheard by …and she was SHOPPING.

Fit woman, to unfit woman: I’ve seen her, we’ve showered several times, of course.  And she has no ass. NO ass.  (wildly gesturing)

5th Street Towers Skyway, Downtown Mpls
Overheard by I bet pants shopping is difficult.

Redhead: So, Amy*, Paul* and Mike* had a threesome last night.
Friend: Oh my god!
Redhead: Yeah.  And later they found out that she was high the whole time.  On HEROIN.
Friend:  Yeah, that sounds like her.
Guy friend: Is she in the program?
Redhead:  Supposedly.

The 3A bus
Overheard by someone without real problems.

Girl in bathroom stall #1: I love 50’s fashion!
Girl in bathroom stall #2: I know! The 60’s was good too.
Girl in bathroom stall #1: Yeah, I wear a lot of, like, 70’s and 80’s.
Girl in bathroom stall #2: I wear 90’s.

ACME Comedy Club
Overheard by need to get out of here ASAP.

Male Coworker #1: Dude, what about the HR director?
Male Coworker #2: Ohhh, man. She’s so hot AND she’s in HR! So, you know she’s into sexual harrassment. She deals with it all the time!
Male Coworker #1: Did you really just say that?

Plymouth Green Mill Happy Hour
Overheard by Well, if she deals with it everyday…

Awkward professor #1: So, what are you up to this weekend?
Awkward professor #2: Ohh, it’s usually whatever the kids have going on.
Awkward professor #1: Oh, that’s what I figured.
Awkward professor #2: Yeah, we were at a softball tournament all weekend last week.
Awkward professor #1: Oh, yeah?
Awkward professor #2: Yeah, it sucked.

Midnight Express, Gustavus Adolphus College
Overheard by i’m glad he’s not MY dad.

Hilariously Irate Mom to small daughter: I told you not to drink that! I told you! Now you’re sick! Yeah, they shouldn’t call it “Propel Fitness Water”, They should call it “Propel Sickness Water”! I told you not to drink it! Now you sick!

Mall of America
Overheard by Must have been the peach flavor..

(In response to the Caribou Coffee question of the day, “What does the acronym “SCUBA” stand for?)
Late-Twenty-Something Woman: I totally know the answer to that. And you know how I know it? Because of Mallory Keaton on Family Ties.
(Several other late-twenty-somethings look up from their laptops and confirm that’s how they knew the answer, too.)
Teenage Barista: Family Ties? Um, what’s that?
Late-Twenty-Something Woman: Oh God. Um, it was a TV show. In the 80’s. Alex P. Keaton? Wow.

Caribou Coffee, Grand & Snelling
Overheard by Just realized that I, too, am apparently ancient.