Arts

Producer #1: I saw the naked pictures just now.
Producer #2: And?
Producer #1: I think he should take them down.

12 West 27 Street
New York, NY

Counselor #1: Why is it that we didn’t get a snow day today? For Christ’s sake there’s only five kids here!
Counselor #2: Because this place is a conspiracy, like the one in Hollywood.

2375 E. 23rd Street
Brooklyn, New York

Patron: Can you please tell me where I can find post-modern American fiction?
Librarian: Post-modern? That would be in the future, there’s no such thing.
Patron: Uh, okay. Can you tell me where science fiction is?

100 S. Potomac Street
Hagerstown, Maryland

Overheard by: Vince Valenzuela

Intercom: Luke! Luke, I am your father.
Woman #1: What is that?
Woman #2: Um, I think it’s the PA system.
Intercom: Luke, I am your father!
Woman #1: Yup, this place just keeps getting weirder every day.

735 Brewerton Road
West Point, New York

Co-worker #1: Is there an ice cream truck outside?
Co-worker #2: I would be very surprised.
Co-worker #1: Are you sure?
Co-worker #2: There’s a trash truck outside…
Co-worker #1: …Oh, it’s your radio.
Co-worker #2: You mean the Bach Concerto?

130 West Canal Street
Winooski, Vermont

Overheard by: Kelly G.

Manager: Who did the paintings on the windows?
Cashier: Oh, Mary* and Yvette* did them last night.
Manager: I thought the retards were coming in to do them.

Ontario
Canadia

20-something woman at pharm counter, in slightly squeaky voice: The latest book of Deepak Chopra… You know him, right? No?”
20-something woman at register behind pharm counter: Who is he, a rapper?

Rite Aid
Chatham, New York

Overheard by: eve

Naive intern: Soo… Bob* from IT asked me if I wanted to go see Blue Man Group with him last week, and so I casually said I had plans with my boyfriend, to let him know I was spoken for, you know?
Office bitch: I'm sorry, I don't see the problem.
Naive intern: Well, ever since then he won't leave me alone and keeps asking me to hang out. Until I mentioned I had a boyfriend he wouldn't even talk to me!
Office bitch: Have you considered the possibility that maybe he just wants to be your friend?
Average worker: Woah! Look who got a soul for Christmas!

Woburn, Massachusetts

Overheard by: i got coal….

President: Yeah, we took that picture after we went to that stupid place in New York. Remember that?
CEO: Oh yeah, that place… That sex place!
Marketing coordinator: You mean the Museum of Sex?
President: God, yes! You've been there?
Marketing coordinator: Yeah… It was really kind of cool.
CEO: No, no, no, it was bo-ring. There were all these pictures, and words, and art…
Marketing coordinator: Oh, I see your confusion… That was the museum part.

Tacoma, Washington

Overheard by: Not Surprised

Borders customer: It's by… I don't know her name, but she's the new Poet Laureate.
Borders clerk: Her name is “Laureate”?
Borders customer, sighing: Never mind.

Sunnyvale, California