Arkansas

White coworker: We should go on the walking trail after work sometime.
Asian coworker: Yeah, that sounds like fun!
White coworker: I would feel safer with you because no one would attack us because they would think you know kung-fu.
Asian coworker: [Silence.]

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Blonde in scrubs: When people around me are sick and won’t stay home I’m not coming to work.
Redhead in scrub: You are a nurse.
Blonde in scrubs: I hate having sick people around me.
Redhead in scrubs: You are a nurse.
Blonde in scrubs: If a person is sick they should stay at home.
Redhead in scrubs: This is a hospital.

1100 Marshall Street
Little Rock, Arkansas

Lady: Does your massage therapist work through knots well?
Guy: Yeah, and she even has this jackhammer apparatus to do your butt with.

400 West Capitol
Little Rock, Arkansas

Overheard by: Sounds Scary!

Blond barmaid: What’s in a whiskey and coke?

Pesto Café
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Overheard by: retired from the service industry

Engineer #1: If you flush the toilet, you lose water pressure?! So it’s like, “Sorry, the dishwasher is running. We have no fire protection.”

Pause.

Engineer #2: Who flushes the toilet if their house is on fire?

700 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, Arkansas