Oncoming fellow dog walker to his companion: Oh, they had Nazis too!

Minnehaha Falls
Overheard by Walkin this way.

Soccer mom #1: Do you know what I heard the other day? Sun exposure is the leading cause of skin cancer.
Soccer mom #2: No way.

Lifetime Fitness

Child, selling refreshments: You want one?
50-year-old man: Nah, I’m already loaded.

Stillwater Lumberjack Days
Overheard by The young man wearing a white tie.

Little girl to popsicle: And then I’m going to lick you and suck on you until you melt all over me.
Her concerned mother: KELLY! I TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK TO POPSICLES!

French Regional Park

Woman on bus talking across the aisle to her mother about the yard workers out the window: Look! They have those claw things. They’re picking up trash with those little claws! Ohh, that’s funny! Look at the claws! Picking up one piece of trash at a time. [pause, bus driver comments] Oh, that’s funny! That’s so funny!

#2 Bus
Overheard by she wouldn’t think it’s so funny if she was the one doing it!

Woman reading on computer: Oh.  (pause) Oh! I didn’t realize those were the lyrics to “Let’s Get Physical.”

St. Paul office
Overheard by LB.

Woman who just boarded to college guy sitting and talking with a friend: I know you, you work at Target!
Guy: Yeah.
(minutes of silence pass)
Woman: No disrespect but, a man and a woman, who would you choose?
Guy: (stunned, jaw dropped, silence)
Woman: I mean I can’t tell, I’m trying to guess, who would you choose?
Guy: (stunned, jaw dropped, silence)
Woman: Well I’m just trying to guess…
Guy: (curtly) keep guessing.
Woman, to herself as she gets off: That was none of my fucking business.
Guy to friend: (icily) Thanks, John. Thanks for making me sit in the back of the bus.

21 bus, Uptown
Overheard by another sunned passenger.

Older man waiting outside the woman’s bathroom: You’re not my wife.
Older woman coming out of the bathroom: Oh, no I’m not.
Older man: Oh well, maybe next time.

Level 5 at the Guthrie
Overheard by Salad.

Kid after going swimming in Lake Superior: Man, that water was cold. I mean, my balls looked like raisins. They were the right color and everything.

Duluth, the beach
Overheard by That’s why I don’t swim here.

Coworker: How is it that guys always micons… miscons… miscon… blow the shit out of proportion?

Office in Bloomington
Overheard by porky pig anyone?

Student: Pirating Vista is like breaking into a bank to steal the urinal cakes.

Gustavus Adolphus College
Overheard by Vista Hater.

Obvious Outsider into cell phone: Oh, I’m not sure what part of Minneapolis we’re in. Somewhere in the middle of the woods with a big lake.

Restaurant in Brainerd, MN
Overheard by Indifferent Employee.

Girl: I wonder how the humans had sex in Wall-E. I mean, they were in those chairs and couldn’t move, it was a big deal when the captain stood up!

Shady Oak Beach
Overheard by Robots.

Hipster to hipstress boarding the 21 in Uptown: What is that smell!? It smells like, like…
Hipstress: Like stale alcohol? (pointing to the wet patch that stretches the length of the bus and taking a seat across the isle from him)
Hipster: Well, I’m not sitting there and letting that shit soak into my pants. (pause) God, I hate the 21. This is why I haven’t taken the bus in the three months I’ve been back and have gladly paid for cabs instead. Now get over here and sit next to me before some creeper does!

21 bus, Uptown
Overheard by Driver.

Tourist: What time do they shut off the falls?

Gooseberry Falls
Overheard by Really?