Older woman library user: I'd like to send a sympathy card to Perry Como.
Librarian: I thought he died several years ago.
Library user: I know. The last address I have is in Jupiter, Florida.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: librain13
Older woman library user: I'd like to send a sympathy card to Perry Como.
Librarian: I thought he died several years ago.
Library user: I know. The last address I have is in Jupiter, Florida.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: librain13
Guy: I just don’t think it’s right that they killed [Terry Schiavo]just because she had a disability.
350 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Security lady: The first thing you gotta do, you gotta kill all the witnesses.
150 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Animal
Lunching lady #1: It’s the fault of the non-Catholics and non-believers that Terri Schiavo didn’t wake up Easter morning.
Lunching lady #2: It’s so true, you’re so right. They just don’t believe.
401 Merritt 7
Norwalk, Connecticut
Overheard by: Not a Catholic
Coworker: Those people in the Tsunami, they deserved to die. They were being greedy, collecting fish from the sea…they should have known there are three phases of a Tsunami.
60 Livingston Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota
Girl: This whole thing is such a tragedy.
Guy: I know, I actually have some old friends there that survived, luckily.
Girl: Where is Tsunami, anyways?
21 Spectrum Pointe
Lake Forest, California
Overheard by: Brandon Walter
Man: I’d like to change the name on the account. She’s been dead for a while now.
CSR: For how long?
170 Utopia Road
Manchester, Connecticut
Overheard by: Mellen
Graphic designer: I’m looking for those “In Memoriam” listings. I know they’re buried around here somewhere.
2400 Grove Boulevard
Austin, Texas
Guy #1: So my dad was going to complain that they didn’t give him his grievance pay.
Guy #2: What’s grievance pay?
Guy #1: Well, you know when a member of your family dies? You get
grievance pay so that you can have the day of the funeral off and the day after. My dad’s pissed ‘cos they won’t give him his grievance pay.
Guy #2: Why won’t they pay him?
Guy #1: Because they said his nana’s not part of his intermediate
family.
153 Campbell Street
Bowen Hills, Queensland
Australia
Overheard by: Murad
Reporter: We can’t give Gary an award.
Copy editor: Why not? You know, if it’s the best story and he was here during that month…
Reporter: What, we’re going to give him a posthumous award?
Copy editor: You know, Gary’s not dead.
Reporter: He is to me!
189 W. Main Street
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Overheard by: W. Texas Mike
