Like I Did With You.

Girl: Which one will fit in my port?
IT guy: The plugs are all the same size.
Girl: Oh, so I just push it in? I don't want to just jam it in there and not have anything happen for me.

NIH Campus
Bethesda, Maryland

Posted on August 10, 2009
Body Parts, Customers, Maryland, Sexuality, Tech People, Technology, Weirdness

Kind Of Like Your Accommodations

Hotel guest: Do you have any forks?
Girl at front desk: Yeah, how many would you like?
Hotel guest: Two. But they're forks, right? Not sporks? You know what sporks are, right?
Girl at front desk: Yes, they're hybrid spoon/fork things.
Hotel guest: Yeah… Reminds me of when I was in prison.

Hawthorne, California

Overheard by: …what?

Posted on August 6, 2009
California, Crimes, Customers, General Idiocy, Questions, Receptionists, Weirdness, Words

At This Point, Henrietta's Pants Spontaneously Burst Into Flames

Customer on cell with full cart of groceries: Hello? Yeah, I had to stay at work late 'cos one of the other girls was sick… I just got in my car now.

Mamaroneck, New York

Overheard by: The Cashier

Posted on August 3, 2009
Customers, Health & Hygiene, Lies, Meals and Snacks, New York, On the phone, Weirdness

You Know the Economy's Bad When History Professors Work at Rite Aid

Woman in line: I want to go somewhere foreign this summer. How about Guam?
Cashier: Actually, Guam is part of the United States.
Woman in line: Ugh, these things change so often. We must have gotten it, like, a year ago, right?
Cashier: Actually, we've owned Guam since the 1800s. It sends a non-voting member to Congress, but they have no elector, so they don't matter for presidential elections.
Woman in line: Oh, thank god.

Rite Aid
Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Posted on July 20, 2009
Customers, Financial Folk, General Idiocy, Geography & History, Pennsylvania, Politics, Questions, Travel, Vacation

Though, Technically, This Smells Like Gin.

Disgruntled lady with broken iPod: I expect the customer service to go hand in hand with the product I bought.
Apple store employee: I see, but there is water damage to the iPod.
Disgruntled lady with broken iPod: But it did not happen while I have had it, it probably happened in the store.
Apple store employee: How long have you had it?
Disgruntled lady with broken iPod: It's brand new.
Apple store employee: This model has been discontinued.
Disgruntled lady with broken iPod: Well whatever damage happened, I didn't do it. I didn't drop it in water.
Apple store employee: Ma'am, we don't put water in our iPods.

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Celine

Posted on June 30, 2009
Customers, Employees, Lies, New York, Technology

As My Nametag Clearly States

IT guy: Where do I need to put this?
Lady down the hall: If you can't get it in that one, just stick it in the back. It doesn't matter where you stick it. I'm easy.

Memphis, Tennessee

Posted on June 15, 2009
Body Parts, Customers, Questions, Sexuality, Tech People, Tennessee, Weirdness

…If the FBI Asks.

Cashier, ringing up books: Okay, ma'am, and would you like to donate a book to a foster child tonight?
Customer: No, it's okay, I'm already doing a foster child.
(cashier stares in shock)
Customer: Oh, wait. I meant to say I'm mentoring a foster child.

Barnes & Noble
Seattle, Washington