24th
August
2008
Why Do People Think This Is Okay?
Drunk 40 year old dude #1, standing in line for the bathroom: Well, there are 4 sinks. We only need 2 with the number of people I’ve seen wash their hands.
Drunk 40 year old dude #2: Yeah. There was this one time I was peeing in the sink at home, and my wife walked in. She was pissed. Good times.
Minnesota Zoo - Music In the Zoo
Overheard by slight overshare.
tags: apple valley , drunks , minnesota zoo , restrooms |
13th
August
2008
We Brought Them All Back!
20 something woman with baby in stroller, at exhibit with animal cutouts that say EXTINCT: So… are the animals in there or what?
Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by edumacation at its best.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
8th
July
2008
Well, Now It Won’t Come True!
5 year old kid to his little friend, after throwing a coin in the wishing fountain: I wished for JESUS to come alive!
Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by Yvette.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
19th
June
2008
The Smells Are Probably Similar, Too
Guy, while looking at a very shaggy camel shedding its winter coat in clumps: That looks like the upholstery in my Corsica!
The Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by mplsape.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
15th
June
2008
And Now They’re Lovely
Ditsy Blonde Girl: Oh, look that baby camel doesn’t have its humps.
Meat Head Boyfriend: It took you a while to get yours.
Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by Well thats nice.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
31st
March
2008
Agreed!
12 year old boy: It’d be much cooler if the dolphin would jump through a ring of fire.
MN Zoo
Overheard by It’s the zoo, not the circus.
tags: apple valley , kids , minnesota zoo |
31st
March
2008
Jason, Is That You?
Little Kid: Where’s daddy?
Frustrated Mom: He’s sitting down in front because he doesn’t know how to listen or follow the rules.
MN Zoo
Overheard by HA! Awesome.
tags: apple valley , kids , minnesota zoo , moms |
11th
September
2007
Why Not Make It Two?
Morbidly obese woman to her equally morbidly obese teenage daughter: I’m not buying you dippin’ dots here, I’ll buy you a whole gallon of them on the way home. They sell them at the grocery store now.

Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by philsy.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
4th
September
2007
Yeah, Stupid.
Crying child: But I want to see the monkeys again!
Mother: Maybe you should have thought of that before you peed your pants!

Parking lot of Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by MT.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
16th
July
2007
Technically.
Child whining loudly: I wanna sit doooowwwnnn!!!
Mom: You ARE sitting down.

Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by The children definately outnumber us here.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
17th
April
2007
Hey! Shut Your Pie Hole And Enjoy Nature!
Man walking out of the dolphin show: That show sucked! Half way through I wanted to stand up and yell ‘Hey! Shut your pie hole, and show us some tricks!’

Discovery Bay at the Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by Your Mom.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
14th
April
2007
Every Moose Downwind Hopes He’s Not.
Mother to young girl as they look at a moose chewing its cud: Do you think he’s eating an Easter egg?

Minnesota Zoo, by the Mooses
Overheard by Your Mom.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
4th
September
2006
When This Is On Your ‘To Do’ List, You Might As Well Stay Home.
Early 30s woman to husband: I want to see a prairie dog poop. I want to see if it gets into the arch.

Northern Trail, MN Zoo
Overheard by your mom.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |
4th
September
2006
That’s Not A Fish, And Those Aren’t Poodles.
Mom to young daughter: Look at the big fish.

Dolphin tank at MN Zoo
Overheard by C & J.
tags: apple valley , minnesota zoo |