Store manager to employee: Can you tighten your ballbag, please? I want all ballbags to be tight.
(customers start giggling and laughing)
Store manager: Come on, guys, we're in a sports store–the word “ballbag” isn't funny here!
Melbourne
Australia
Store manager to employee: Can you tighten your ballbag, please? I want all ballbags to be tight.
(customers start giggling and laughing)
Store manager: Come on, guys, we're in a sports store–the word “ballbag” isn't funny here!
Melbourne
Australia
Customer on cell: Yes, darling. I do have to bring her home, she's our daughter.
Ontario
Canadia
Woman to tech support: So I came in this morning and I couldn't get it up.
Virgin Islands
Employee on phone with customer: Do we have any books about muffins? You mean how to make muffins? We have cookbooks… (pause) No? (pause) I don't think we have books… Just… About muffins.
Long Island, New York
Boss to client: While we're talking about this, why don't you take your shirt off, please.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Overheard by: fully dressed
Girl: My cats chewed through my computer's power cord this morning. (sighs) I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new one.
Apple guy: Or you could use that bullet to shoot your cats!
(girl stares at him)
Apple guy: Uh… I take back that comment heartily.
Apple Store
Portland, Maine
Overheard by: Misaki
Customer: Have a nice Passover.
Coworker #1: What's “Passover” mean?
Coworker #2: It means she's Jewish.
Coworker #1: Oh. It sounded like something naughty.
Troy, Michigan
Customer: I'd rather shoot off my left tit than save her life!
Melbourne
Australia
Code enforcer: I have an animal control complaint.
Animal control: Okay, what is it?
Code enforcer: There's a camel loose in our office!
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: Lauren
Sales associate: Can I help you find something, ma'am?
Woman: Oh, no thanks, my husband is just looking for a screw.
Hardware Store
Falmouth, Massachusetts
