Comebacks

Male administrator: So, are you a prostitute?
Female administrator: Excuse me?
Male administrator: It’s a line from that movie, Monster.
Female administrator: You can’t just go around saying things like that to people.
Male administrator: Oh. Well, I used to do it all the time at my old job.
Female administrator: Is that why you’re not working there anymore?

Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC

Overheard by: the fly on the wall

Restaurant manager, to hobo panhandling inside the restaurant: You need to leave right now.
Hobo: Man, how you know I not here for some crab cakes and fine wine?
Restaurant manager: Because you have human shit all over your pants.

Illinois Street
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu

Male coworker: It says I have to create a ‘heat ticket.’ Where is that?
Female coworker: Just open a general service ticket. I haven’t had to go into heat to get that done.

50 Beele
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: JuJuBe

Clerk: Ma’am I can’t take this money.
Lady: Why not? It’s good American money.
Clerk: Ma’am this money is from Canada.
Lady: Is Canada not the 50th state of the U.S. or are you stupid or something?
Clerk: I’m not the one that’s stupid.

13697 W. Colonial Drive
Winter Garden, Florida

Lawyer: Hey, here’s something that might interest you!
Secretary: I doubt it.

3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: i love this place

Customer: Wow, you must be in high demand this time of year.
Employee: I guess so.
Customer: Oh, I meant the store. Not you.

Columbia, Maryland

Overheard by: party rental stores are no party

Customer: Excuse me, miss!
Waitress: Yes, sir?
Customer: My soup is too soupy.
Waitress: Well, I’m sorry, sir, if your soup is too soupy, but it is soup.

Point Pleasant, New Jersey

Overheard by: he deserved it

Client #1: Yeah…[My girlfriend] used to be an actress.
Client #2, looking at photo on client #1’s desk: Yeah? I think I have seen her before.
Client #1: Yeah? You watch a lot of porn? She used to be a porn actress.
Client #2: [Silence]

Airport Plaza
Long Beach, California

Supervisor: Different day, same shit.
Employee: That’s my favorite saying! “Different day, same shit.”
Supervisor: We probably shouldn’t swear; I don’t want to offend the customers.
Employee: Probably.
Supervisor: You know what my favorite saying is? “Fuck that!”

Mount Prospect, Illinois

Boss: Wait, I have a question: they’re fucking retarded!
Underling: That’s actually not a question…
Boss: Whatever, they’re still fucking retards.

13546 Rockland Road
Lake Bluff, Illinois

Overheard by: Victa G