California

Customer: Where is the fresh pasta?
Clerk: I don’t know. I’m new here, too.

Lompoc, California

Overheard by: Still Searching

10-year-old boy to mom: 63 dollars? Do you have that kind of cash?

Disneyland entrance gates
Anaheim, California

Overheard by: amused disney worker

Bookstore clerk: Hehe, there’s a book called The Idiot?

Barnes & Noble
Emeryville, California

Graphics supervisor: They talked about touching.

7th and Flower Street
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: Spongegirl

Supervisor signing box, dreamily: Ah! I love packages…

Chino, California

Overheard by: Emu Whisperer

Coworker, reading an e-mail: Oh no… We can’t hire someone that says “TGIF”.

Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: I agree

Teacher: All right, then, so what are some of the languages that influenced the English language?
Student #1: Canadian!
Student #2: You’re dumb. This is Brit Lit… so obviously, British influenced the English language.

4771 Campus Drive
Irvine, California

Bimbette: Yeah, my dad bought me this really great promise ring for my birthday.
Teacher: Isn’t it a little too late?

High school
San Diego, California

Cube wench: What’s this stuff coming out of me?

Hollywood, California

Overheard by: Shameless Leprechaun

40-ish supervisor: You’re listening to the Bee Gees? Wasn’t Leif Garrett in the Bee Gees?
20-ish employee #1: All I know is that someone in the group committed suicide.
20-ish employee #2: No, Leif Garrett was in the Beatles.

1241 Dyer Road
Santa Ana, California