Teenage girl #1 to friend: Dude, your sister’s tiny.
Teenage girl #2: Thanks. She’s like an accessory.

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by Gucci or Coach?

Frank teenage girl: Maria* is self-conscious about her meat so she’s moving over there.

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by What about her vegetables?

Teenage girl, to friend: The elbow is a euphemism, remember that.

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by Not as good as the spinal cord.

Girl, to friend: Would it be awkward if I leaned in to smell your perfume and licked your neck?

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by Only if it actually happened.

Girl in geometry class to friend: I like the word tangent. Ms. Washburn taught it to me. You taught me “random”, and Laura taught me “rape”.
Friend: That paragraph just defined us all.

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by The power of knowledge.

8th Grade Girl: I bet that’s true.
8th Grade Boy: I bet your mom’s true.
8th Grade Girl: Who even says that anymore?

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by I guess I’m not up on the lingo.

Freshman girl, to friend: You drew a swastika on my notebook?!
Friend: Yeah?
Freshman girl, a while later: I wasn’t surprised, just angry.

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by was the peace sign too hard to draw?

Boy: The deeper you go into the bucket of emo the more pornography you find.

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy

Girl, during a lecture about modern pirates: So, why don’t we get any pirate attacks in Minnesota?

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by Lake Superior is decievingly dangerous.

Alto II teenage girl (on singing first soprano part in choir): That was like going on a field trip!

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by Just wait till you try out the bass line.

Boy: What do you think I am, a fortune cookie?
Girl: Do the words “In Bed” make sense after everything you say?
Boy and Girl: (pause) Yes.

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by good to know.

Girl talking to herself: Shut up, shut up, shut up.
Girl #2: Who were you talking to?
Girl talking to herself: YOU.
Girl#2: I wasn’t saying anything.
Girl talking to herself: Really?

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by Dazzling Drawer.

Girl, to friend holding a blue ruler: You know, that ruler really makes your eyes pop.

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by My calculator brings out my highlights.

Girl Coming Out Of Band: So, I found this pencil today and I tried to read it. And I didn’t really realize I was reading it upside down. And now I’ve realized that it was a Hannah Montanna pencil, but I swear that I was reading something about Hitler!

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by Cynical… I think that there is a connection here!

Teenage girl to friend: Your bra is like Anne’s* purse!

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by Chock full of goodies!

9th grade girl in locker room: We’re gonna get 6 inches of snow tonight. I just know. It was in my dream. The Herpes Fairy visited me.

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by The Tooth Fairy has a sister?!?

6th grade boy #1 at basketball practice: Let’s use the boy’s balls today!
6th grade boy #2: Yeah! Let’s use some balls that are OUR size!
9th grade girl to friend: Did that just happen?

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by 6th grade boys are less inocent than they seem.

Girl: Well, I need to practice my insults on somebody.

Maplewood, MPA
Overheard by So you can use them naturally in a casual conversation…

Teenage girl working pensively on History study guide: You know, I WOULD abbreviate “cultural” with “cult,” but that would just confuse me.

Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
Overheard by Got to agree with you on that one.

Teenage Girl: Man, it’s as hard as a rock!
Mother of Teenage Girl: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!!!!
Teenage Girl: Ugh!!!! Not you too!

Maplewood, Panera
Overheard by Waiting in line for my french onion soup.