No, Just The Kind You Cook Food In
Older woman going through a dumpster: An oven mit. Hey, do you have one of those nice fancy kitchens? The kind you can cook things in?
Uptown alley
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Older woman going through a dumpster: An oven mit. Hey, do you have one of those nice fancy kitchens? The kind you can cook things in?
Uptown alley
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Sloshed loud dude talking to randoms: I’m a Jewish Beatles freak!
Greenmill Uptown
Overheard by who cares.
Mother talking to Stylist: Yes, it was just so gnarly.
Mortified Daughter: Mom! Don’t EVER use that word again. PLEASE!
Mother, confused: What?? Gnarly?
Even more Mortified Daughter: YES!! Please! Just don’t say it EVER again, okay?
(Mother shrugs shoulders)
Stylist: Don’t be mean to your mother!
Uptown Salon SaBel
Overheard by Snicker.
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Girl #1: So, which do you want to get? Mild or medium?
Girl #2: Mild is the hotter one, right?
Rainbow Foods, Uptown
Overheard by wow.
Guy: Law students are not hot.
Girl: I know some hot law students.
Guy: Well, the girls, yeah. But not the guys.
Girl: No, guys too.
Guy: Well… they’re all dicks.
Herkimer
Overheard by i think someone feels a little threatened.
Mother: Stop calling him that, it’s not a very nice name!
4-year old boy: What’s not a very nice name?
Mother: Chunky.
4-year old boy: But his name is Chunky.
Mother: No it’s not, it’s Thomas.
Isles Bun & Coffee, Uptown
Overheard by thankfully, not Thomas’ mother.
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Angry 20something walking out of bathroom with friend: You’ve never made HOLLANDAISE?!
Bathroom, Calhoun Square
Overheard by aeh.
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Sleazy Bald Guy posting Church of Scientology ads on the stoplights: Yeah, we’re gonna post all up Lake Street tonight because there will be tons of people out. F*#%in’ great night to get our message out. (Waves two friends across the street on a Don’t Walk signal) Let’s cross.
Lagoon & Hennepin in Uptown
Overheard by What a Great F*#%in’ Message!
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MetroMan talking loudly and angrily on cell phone: I am a VIRGO, and she’s a Scorpio. If she thinks she can STING THIS VIRGO she’s got another thing coming!
LynLake restaurant Patio
Overheard by Poison.
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20-something cashier #1: So, what’s up with the 4th of July? Why are we celebrating?
20-something cashier #2: Are you serious?
20-something cashier #1: Yeah, what’s up with the 4th of July?
20-something cashier #2: Uh, it’s our nation’s independence… you know, Independence Day?
20-something cashier #1: Oh, I didn’t know that.
20-something cashier #2: (shaking head) Wow.
Gas station in Uptown
Overheard by Wow is right. I’m scared for America.
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Girl: Good luck with that. You’ll end up with barbed wire embedded in your genitals if you go there on foot. And I’ll say I told you so.
Hidden Beach
Guy #1: I’m over this. Let’s go to my place, pop some pills and watch infomercials.
Guy #2: Do you have A/C?
Guy #1: Huh?
Guy #2: A/C?
Guy #1: What’s that?
Guy #2: Air conditioning, dude!
Guy #1: Why the hell didn’t you just say air conditioning? You’re so lazy you gotta abbreviate it?
Hidden Beach
Drunk man to girlfriend: So, it’s like swiss cheese, okay? All the women I’ve ever slept with are like swiss cheese.
Uptown
Overheard by wow, where do you pick up girls?
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Man standing close to my friend and I at a urinal: This reminds me of work.
CC Club
Overheard by What do you do for a living?
Woman to table of friends: So, there I was in Texas with a bunch of Asians and they didn’t know.
Herkimer patio
Overheard by That could have been me.
White (looking) guy to other white (looking) guy: When I eventually say, “My dad’s from Iraq”, it’s almost an immediate, “You’re undatable.”
Caffetto
Overheard by You wouldn’t be undatable to me… if you weren’t a dude.
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Cutie queen: I’m not being judgmental but, hello, the 80s called and they want their recreational drug back.
Uptown Pride Block Party
Overheard by Alexis.
Man waiting outside the porta-potties, speaking to a man inside the porta-potties: Number one: Stop going number two!
Lake of the Isles
Overheard by CT.
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Man: I want a beer and a shot of tequila!
Woman: No. You don’t.
Uptown Bar
Overheard by An Invisible Fiend.
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Old black man, walking erratically and muttering to himself as he passes a tall black woman with dreads walking hand-in-hand with her white husband: Damn… that’s the problem with Minnesota. Blacks and whites together. What the hell? This state is so fucked up… why, Minnesota? All gone to hell.
Lyndale Ave, outside The Wedge
Overheard by I remember the good old days.