Target employee: May I help you find something?
Female customer in mid-40s with smoker voice: Uhh, yeah, I’m looking for the AC/DC adapters and can’t find ‘em.

Fridley, SuperTarget
Overheard by Still laughing.

Girl: You know what’s so unique about the number 11?
Guy: 9/11?  No, wait.  November 9th.

UofM mall area
Overheard by Dik.

Woman #1 viewing the Guthrie Theater’s Endless Bridge for the first time: What is that!?!
Woman #2 confidently repiles: That’s the Bridge to Nowhere.

Outside the Guthrie Theater
Overheard by Who knew we were actually in Alaska?

Guy #1, semi-fluent in English: (explaining aliens) What is the word for that?
Guy #2: Extra testicles.
Guy #1: Extra testicles?
Guy #2: (laughs) Wait, no. Extraterrestrials. Not extra testicles.
Guy #1: Extraterrestrials?
Guy #2: Yeah. Do you understand the difference?
Guy #1: No. (seeming confused)
Guy #2: (looks around realizing others are now listening) Um, maybe I’ll explain it later.

Light Rail
Overheard by MsJeshka.

Co-worker: …and this chick was a knock-out.  Coulda been a model.  She was tall, you know, 5-foot-11, 5-foot-12.

Chanhassen, Powers Blvd.
Overheard by I’m 5′18″ tall.

Woman, talking to a friend about what music will be played at her wedding dance: There will be no country played at my wedding. It’s all my fiance and his family listen to, and I’m not going to have Toby Keith and some… Conway Twitty cowboy dipshit ruining my wedding.

Minneapolis, 26th & Blaisdell
Overheard by conway twitty.

6 year old boy: MOM! I did not come here to talk!

Watertown, Crow River Coffee Shop
Overheard by He’s got an agenda.

GED girl #1: What kind of STD did your man get?
GED girl #2: No, SUV, like a truck!
GED girl #1: Oh, that’s much better.

New Hope, School
Overheard by Not a Nerd.

Monotone Insightful Student: I’m taking this neuroscience class, and so… all we do is neuroscience stuff.

#18 bus
Overheard by Gay Quaker.