Crazy Asian Man: OH! Oh look at you! You so pale! So white! (Grabs lady’s arm, shoves up her sleeve, and SNIFFS her arm, gustily sighing) So.. clean!
White Lady: HEY!
Lady’s Friend (also white): Bitch, what country you think you in?! Get up off her! You can’t just be sniffin’ some white lady’s arm like that! This is ‘Merica! We gots laws about that! Get your nose offa her before I call the po-lice!
Crazy Asian Man: (looks at Lady #2, confused) You… are not so white.
Lady’s Friend: OH NO YOU DON’T! Don’t you even THINK about sniffin’ my arm! I’ll smack you so hard your face fall off!

US Bank Building, Skyway
Overheard by Glad he didn’t see me.

One overly made up Targetron to another: Her boyfriend was in the military when… uh… that stuff was going on with Iraq.

Skway, downtown Minneapolis
Overheard by Still in Iraq.

Office buddy #1: You heard it would snow fifteen inches? That’s more than I heard. I heard one foot and three inches!
Office buddy #2: Ummmm…

Skyway, downtown Minneapolis
Overheard by Metric Man.

Co-worker #2 reciprocating to Co-worker #1: Well, I had a dream last night that I stabbed you.

Thomson Corporate Skyway, Eagan
Overheard by Concerned Co-worker #3.

Girl in skyway to her two friends: I walked through five farts the other day.

5th & Marquette
Overheard by Kuzelka.

Woman #1: I really think Accenture is trying to poison us.
Woman #2: What? What do you mean?
Woman #1: Well, think about it. People keep complaining about having sore throats and headaches while they’re inside of the office. I think there’s seriously something in the air.
Woman #2: Hrmm.

In the Skyway near Accenture Tower
Overheard by An Accenture Worker.

20s something office worker to her female entourage: Our first stop should be for coffee at Caribou.
Buddy #1: The ‘boo.
Buddy #2: Yeah. The ‘boo!

Minneapolis skyways
Overheard by Not hip enough.

One man to another man: What?! I’m not a vegetarian! I run from vegetation!

In the skyway at a popcorn stand
Overheard by The Asian Sensations.

Mid-20’s white guy talking to two mid-20’s white girls: I didn’t realize Strawberry Shortcake was so sexually expressive.

skyway outside Chipotle
Overheard by neither did I.

Guy #1 in line at sandwich shop on the skyway to Guy #2 behind the counter: I’ll have a Roast Beef and Swiss on sourdough.
Guy #2: Roast Beef and Swiss on sourdough…what kind of cheese would you like?
Guy #1: Umm, swiss.
Guy #2: I have to ask because some people want pepper jack.

Popular Sandwich Shop on the Skyway in Downtown Minneapolis
Overheard by Guy #3 (who ordered pastrami on rye hold the cheese…swiss or otherwise).

Very fat black man in wheelchair: I’m the black Cameron Diaz.

Skyway, Roanoke Bldg.
Overheard by Saint Ramer.

Fat guy: You got a big butt.
Fat woman: And I got big thighs, too.

Minneapolis Skyway
Overheard by Both right.

Little girl: What are we going to do next?
Dad: Well, I thought we could jump in the Minnesota River again.

Marquette & 6th skyway
Overheard by Skyway Sam.

Thirty-something, business casual, workaday guy: If you want to look at The Lord of the Rings from the perspective of Christianity, the elves are kind of like angels. Then, the men are like, well, men. Hobbits are like…English men.

Chinese Restaurant, Downtown Mpls Skyway
Overheard by Smug geek.

Scruffy middle aged guy with longish hair on cell phone: No, I can’t go to Wells Fargo, they’ll arrest me… Yeah, $300,000 of my own money I can’t get to.

Skyway to Crystal Court, Downtown Minneapolis

One of a group of chattering girls walking together: Get a girl who doesn’t speak English and can’t say no!
They pass a group of chattering guys walking the other way.
One of the guys to the girls: Hey! You wanna see somebody’s black and blue scrotum?

Skywalk
Overheard by Guy not in a chattering group.

Random guy to his buddies: I had a girl once. Her name was Kathy, or something.

Skyway
Overheard by The Guy Behind Them.

One pizza counter guy to another pizza counter guy: It’s all natural… even the by-products in it are natural.

Pizza Counter on the Skyway
Overheard by former customer.

City Employee to other City Employee: Well, it doesn’t help that she chases ho-ho’s on her treadmill (laughs) And snorts coke on city time.

Skyway near Mpls Billing Offices
Overheard by Mommie Dearest.

Man: “Who the %^$# knows what’ll happen in the next 3 or 4 years!?!? The Earth could be ruled by gorillas!

Saint Paul Skyway