Tween girl: Look I can float, and I don’t have big boobs!
–Manasquan Beach, New Jersey
Overheard by: Jenn
Archive for the ‘Tweens’ Category
…I Mean, If We Knew Who He Was.
Mother: Stop flicking your ear.
Tween son: I can’t. My ear is so awesome.
Mother: You’re so retarded sometimes.
Tween son: Like dad?
–Orchard Beach, The Bronx, New York
Overheard by: Pinks
Says So in the Brochure
Teenage girl: I can’t wait to get a tattoo on my lower back.
Tween boy #1: Why would you want a tattoo there? How are you going to be able to see it?
Tween boy #2: It’s not for her, stupid, it’s for the dudes she lets do her in the butt doggy-style.
–St. Simon’s Island, Georgia
Overheard by: John
Detached Redundancies Are For People Under the Age of 20
Tween #1: Ohmigod. It’s soooo sandy.
Tween #2: Um, it’s a beach.
Random old man: Damn teeny boppers.
–Virginia Beach, Virginia
Overheard by: I hate shoobies.
No, Let’s Talk More about the Cheese
Woman: Where are you from?
Twelve-year-old boy: Minnesota.
Woman: Oh, yeah, you have really good cheese there.
Boy: Ummmm…
Woman: Oh, wait. No. That’s Wisconsin. They have really good cheese.
Boy: Yeah. They do. But I’m from Minnesota.
–Virginia Beach
I Was Hoping to Sustain Your Youthful Innocence a Bit Longer. We Hate Black People
Tween girl: Daddy, why aren’t there ever any black people at this beach?
Dad: Well, I’m not sure, but I think they don’t care for water and the sun.
–Carolina Beach, North Carolina
Overheard by: Chad
Immigrants: The New El Nino.
Black tween girl to girlfriend on cell: It’s mad hot out, you deported Dominican.
–Bergen Beach, New York
Overheard by: its not THAT hot out
Bring Me Grandchildren, Then We’ll See
Tween girl to parents: You never listen to me!
Mom: Be quiet, Ashley.
–Clearwater Beach, Florida
Overheard by: Nicole
Loss of Virginity’s Contagious
[Three ten-year-old boys cycling past the beach.]Boy #1: Why you going so fast?!
Boy #2: [Missing front teeth, which makes him lisp.] Becauth he wath fucking her latht night!
Boy #3: What?!!!
–Lake Calhoun Beach, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: They grow up quickly these days!
A Portrait Of the Cat Lady As a Young Girl
Tween: The cute ones are not nice, the nice ones are not cute, and the cute & nice ones are gay.
–Long Beach, California
Overheard by: Trixie
