Woman #1: Have you ever seen Saved by The Bell?
Woman #2: Was that one stupid idiot kid in that?
Woman #1: Yeah.
Woman #2: Yep, I saw that.

Light rail, MOA
Overheard by Samuel Screech Powers.

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.

Guy in Vikings gear at the warehouse stop to several other guys: I’m pretty sure that’s the Target Center back there, not the Xcel.

LRT, following Vikings game

Ghetto teenage girl: Ain’t Hillary running no more?  I never see her on the paper!
Random Asian guy: What?! Barack got it.
Ghetto teenage girl: Oh. Well, I don’t like that McCain fella.

LRT Northbound
Overheard by Just shaking my head.

Little girl pointing to city hall: That’s where we pick up daddy!
Mom: No, it’s across the street at the jail.

 On the light rail passing by city hall
Overheard by Not good.

Woman #1: Is that an indoor baseball stadium?
Woman #2: I don’t know, I think so.
Woman #1: I don’t think it’s completely indoors; I think that white part only goes over the seats or something.
Woman #2: No, it’s all covered. It’s an indoor baseball staduim!

Light rail, near the Metrodome before a Twins game
Overheard by It’s also a football stadium.

Guy #1: Well, I think people have pretty much forgotten about that, right?
Guy #2 looks at Guy #1 with a stare of disbelief, and in a dry, convincing tone: Dude. NOBODY has forgotten about World War II.

Minneapolis, On the light rail
Overheard by Wait, there  was more than one World War?

Young woman steps off the lightrail, sees guy stepping on to the lightrail: HEY! I thought you were in JAIL!

Minneapolis, Franklin Station
Overheard by Guess not…

Extremely upset woman on cell phone: You’re a redundant, ignorant, ghetto, naive bitch.  It is what it is.  You probably don’t even know the meaning of half those words!

Southbound LRT train
Overheard by Burrhead.

20-something male LRT commuter: I’m meeting people from work for a birthday party at Ichiban’s at 6.
Older colleague: What are you doing on the train then?
20-something male LRT commuter: I’m going to pick up my car at Fort Snelling and come back downtown; I wouldn’t want to ride this thing after 6.

LRT southbound train 5:00 pm
Overheard by Commuter in disbelief.

Man on cell phone talking to a woman he contacted while incarcerated: Every woman I’ve had a child with I’ve been in a relationship with.

Lightrail to MOA
Overheard by Entertained.

Dude: I heard they’re gonna put Light Rail in St. Paul.
Chick: What’s that?
Dude: Light rail? We’re riding it right now!
Chick: I know that! [long pause] What’s St. Paul?
Dude: …

Midtown Station
Overheard by Really?

Dad to eight-year-old daughter: When we get to the Dome, do you want nachos?
Girl: Yeah!
Dad: I want some nachos and some BEERS.
Girl: I think I’ll just have soda.

Northbound light rail
Overheard by Twins fan.

Scandalized teen girl complaining about friend: How hard is it to, like, not have sex over the weekend when you’re doing mock trial?

Northbound light rail, near 46th St. Station
Overheard by Like, priorities, guys.

Ghetto Fabulous Girl approaching two other Urban Youth:  Who are you?
Urban Youth:  I’m Strawberry, this is Nay-Nay.
Ghetto Fabulous Girl:  What are you doing here?
Strawberry (motioning to Nay-Nay):  She shitted herself so she had to go change.
(Nay-Nay stands, mouth agape)
Strawberry:  What?  Girls shit.

Northbound Light Rail
Overheard by Smabbott.

Yappy Blonde:  Why would a beer bong smell like pot?

Light Rail from MOA
Overheard by I can’t even imagine…

Effete young man #1: He had HIV, not AIDS.
Effete young man #2: Aren’t HIV and AIDS the same thing?
Effete young man #1: No.
Effete young man #2: But aren’t they, like, related?
Effete young man #1: No! You can’t get AIDS if you take care of your body. [coughs in friend's face] You’re infected now!
Effete young man #2: How do you know?
Effete young man #1: I poked you and now you’re infected!

Northbound light rail, between terminals
Overheard by Be safe, boys.

Gangster Looking Guy talking on cell phone: Yo, you know who I just saw? Remember that girl you hit in the bathroom? Yeah I just saw that bitch.

38th Street Train Station
Overheard by The bathroom?

Patron getting on lightrail dressed in Twins garb, obviously on the way to the Twins game with his family: I wonder which train I’m supposed to get on, I hope I don’t get on the wrong one…

46th Street Lightrail station
Overheard by JoJoC.

Guy yelling into cell phone: You know there ain’t no one else. All them other bitches, I don’t talk to them any more. I don’t want no other bitches, just you. I’m with you all the motherfuckin’ time. I ain’t got time to be with no other bitches. Why we gotta fight? Why can’t we just be cool? Come on, baby.

Light rail train all the way from the 46th Street station to the Warehouse District.
Overheard by someone who’s glad to see that romance isn’t dead.