Enthusiastic garage sale shopper (holding up socks): These are so CLEAN!  How you keep your socks so CLEAN?!?!
Sock seller: Largely by… not wearing them.

NE Minneapolis, garage sale
Overheard by It increases their value.

Ghetto-looking shopper to her equally ghetto friend, regarding display of items for the National Breast Cancer Association:  If I had the big “C”, the last thing I’d want to look at is pink stuff.

NE Minneapolis, Target
Overheard by Missing the big picture?

20-something bro #1: So, I was at this party place…
20-something bro #2, interrupting: Dude, fuck yeah!

Stinson ave., Rainbow foods parking lot
Overheard by rjc.

Mom: Did you take my last tampon?
Daughter (aghast): No! I would never take the last tampon!
Mom: I think you did. I had almost a full box last month, and I went this morning and the box was empty.
Daughter: Well, I may have taken all the tampons leading up to it, but I would never take the last tampon. Jeez, mom.

Minneapolis, Nordeast Target
Overheard by not to split hairs or anything…

Drunk man to others at his table: I prefer Kenny.  Except for he’s a maniac and you never know what he’s on and he’s always geekin’.

Psycho Suzi’s
Overheard by Laura.

A 20 something woman talking to her friend over lunch: So, that was how my morning started; waking up with a man I am not overly fond of.

Restaurant In NE Mpls
Overheard by My morning start a little bit better.

Middle-aged Dude #1: You should petition the state high school league to make killing with porcupines a sport.
Middle-aged Dude #2: Yeah, with the quills and everything.
Middle-aged Dude #1: Exactly! That’s what I’m saying.

Bar @ Elsie’s
Overheard by I grabbed my blackberry as soon as I heard it.

Guy smoking outside Tony Jaro’s to another: You don’t need a thirty aught six rifle to do that. You could do that with a .45.

Tony Jaros’ River Garden, Nordeast Minneapolis
Overheard by greenie queenie.

Rowdy gay man to rowdy gay compatriot while pointing at cyclist walking the aisle: See!  He’s not ugly, he’s RUSTIC!

Lund’s in NE
Overheard by flattered by the underhandedness.

Boy #1: What if the sword from Mulan battled the sword from Kung Fu Panda?
Boy #2: Whoa.

Windom Park playground, NE Minneapolis
Overheard by never thought of that.

Girl showing her friends the latest vita.mn: You know, rugby. It’s like the Rollergirls, but without skates.

Varsity Theater
Overheard by It is??

30 something suburban woman #1: So what do I do with him???
30 something suburban woman #2: Take him home and sleep with him!
30 something suburban woman #1: What do I do after that???
30 something suburban woman #2: Make him lefsa.

Mayslack’s
Overheard by norwego.

Guy #1:  I’m sorry dude, I never replaced your Inca sacrificial onyx knife that I broke.
Guy #2:  Mayan, actually.  That’s OK, though.

Jax Supper Club, NE Mnpls
Overheard by Stu Dog.

Hungry Angry Teenage Boy to his Mom: Just cuz it says Tuna Helper doesn’t mean ya gotta add tuna!

From the sh–t, kickin’, speed takin’, truck-drivin’ neighbors downstairs . . .(in ne mpls)
Overheard by Wishing my FICO score was better, so I could buy a house in a better neighborhood.

Guy on cellphone: But goddamn Ponce de Leon.  You know what I mean?

Outside 331 club
Overheard by swift passerby.

Girl #1: Does my ass look okay in this?
Girl #2: Yes.
Girl #1: Would you lie to me?
(pause)
Girl #2: Yes, but I’m not lying right now.

Target- nordeast
Overheard by well at least that’s honest

Guy to girlfriend/wife: You like shopping and I like blood…

Bulldog NE

Young Hipster: What do you recommend?
Bartender: (names off some fairly obscure beers…)
Young Hipster: Do you have anything that tastes kind of like PBR?
Bartender: Why don’t you just have a PBR?
Young Hipster: OK.

331 Club
Overheard by Alie.

Late 20s guy with man purse: Sure, I own a white belt, but I wear it as a joke. And I don’t own a
trucker hat.

Overheard at NE Bulldog
Overheard by Ed.

Handlebar-Mustached Prick: I got up two hours early today so I could wax my my mustache before work.

331 Club