Ten year old boy to forty year old grandma: What’s the biggest animal in the world?
Grandma: I don’t know. What?
Boy: You have to guess.
Grandma: I don’t know. A gorilla.
Boy: No! It lives in the ocean.
Grandma: I don’t know what lives in the ocean.
Boy: A blue whale.
Grandma: Oh. How big is it?
Boy: Bigger than this building. I thought you were gonna say elephant. That’s what everyone else thinks.
Grandma: I thought maybe elephant. I don’t know. King Kong be huge.

Counselor’s office in an Anoka office building
Overheard by What about No Grandmas left behind?

Girl talking loudly on cellphone: …and OMG I saw a black guy run into a door. And it was really funny, because he did the whole ‘I’m black and I overreact to everything to make up for years of oppression against the African race thing’. I laughed SO hard.

Domino’s in Anoka
Overheard by can i get a hell yeah.

Pizza delivery guy #1: Dude, if I’m gonna kidnap a doctor, I might as well kidnap a homeless guy and take his heart.
Pizza delivery guy #2: *nods*

Domino’s, Anoka
Overheard by oh my.

Girl: …and I was the puddle queen; ruler of my puddle kingdom.

Anoka high school

Guy: It’s like playing hopscotch with your shirt off and the little kids are like, “Mommy, look at his boobies” and I’m like, “YEAH. LOOK AT MY BOOBIES.”

Domino’s, Anoka
Overheard by well that’s neat.

High school boy: If I was a girl, I totally wouldn’t be a virgin.

Anoka high school
Overheard by oh really now.

Emo guy: Seriously… about ‘patio’, why isn’t it pronounced like ‘ratio’? Like, hey, let’s go eat lunch on the pay-shee-o.
Equally emo girl: Yeah… learn about soft sounding T’s, bitches.

gas station in anoka
Overheard by good grief guys, go home.

Girl #1: You don’t seem like a ‘hat’ person.
Girl #2: What are you talking about? Are you toking the gange?
Girl #1: Um… first off, no. And I guess my question is, ‘are you partial to hats?’
Girl #2: Why do you ask in such a sudden matter?
Girl #1: I thought I’d ask to verify.
Girl #2: Well, depends on the hat. But I find little opportunity to wear them, regardless.

a subway in anoka
Overheard by it’s a legit question i guess.

Guy: Well… you know what they say: ‘If at first you don’t succeed…’
Girl: You get a bat.
Guy: You’re fantastic.

Anoka High School, Anoka
Overheard by that’s what i call romance.

Teen Girl: I like to say random things when people walk by to see if it winds up on any of those “overheard” sites.
Teen Boy: Isn’t that, like, cheating?
Teen Girl: THERE ARE NO RULES IN “OVERHEARD!!!!!!!”

Avant Garden, Anoka
Overheard by Actually, There Are.

Attorney: We ought to be able to get him for mental defect based on the fact that he willingly moved from Arizona to here alone.

Anoka County Courthouse
Overheard by Can We Get a Hell, Ya.

Blah Office/Bureaucrat type: It’s really cold out there.
Mail Guy: It’s cold enough to freeze a monkey.

Anoka County Courthouse
Overheard by Exactly what are your job responsibilities?

Teenage Boy: Blessings on you today!
Teenage Girl: Thank you.
Teenage Boy: Yeah, I know you need ‘em.

After mass at a church in Anoka
Overheard by Guy who immediately thought that was “Overheard” material.