Cashier: Will this be all?
Lady: I also want one Kabbalah. [Cashier looks at her, puzzled.] This dessert [points into case].
Cashier: Baklava, ma’am.
Port of Piraeus Café, 13th Street NW
Washington, DC
Cashier: Will this be all?
Lady: I also want one Kabbalah. [Cashier looks at her, puzzled.] This dessert [points into case].
Cashier: Baklava, ma’am.
Port of Piraeus Café, 13th Street NW
Washington, DC
Shop worker: We assure you ma'am, none of our products contain any form of radioactive waste.
Customer: Well, I won't buy any then!
Tesco
South Wales
Overheard by: Wait, what?
Woman: Wow! You sure do know how to type. You’re typing 100 hours a mile! It’s amazing!
2 Rector Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: Larry Flores
Caller: Yes, I would like to confirm my reservation for tonight. My surname is Tango Anglo-Saxon, Newfoundland–
Receptionist: Um, sir, you lost me at ‘Tango.’ Can I just have the first three letters of your last name?
Kinzie and State Streets
Chicago, Illinois
Female shop assistant: Sorry sir, but you'll have to stand outside. These changing rooms are for women only.
Cocky Spaniard: So?
Female shop assistant: You're a man.
Cocky Spaniard: But I'm gay!
Female shop assistant: That's not really my problem, sir. Please wait outside.
Massimo Dutti Store
Dubai
Overheard by: Keep Digging!
President: This is our IT department. Those people write new programs all day long.
Customer: Oh, so this is the Nerd Center!
1047 17th Avenue
Santa Cruz, California
Middle aged woman: Ever since I hit 50, the hot flashes have been hitting me like mad.
Teenage clerk: Ummm…yes.
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Anni
Tech on phone in next cube: How can I help you? … Uh huh. Well like it said in the doc, you have to name the files alphabetically for that to work. … Alphabetically means from A to Z. … No, sir, you can’t name one file code_abc and the next one code_aba, a is before c… Yes, abz would work. … Numbers come before letters. … You’re welcome. [hangs up phone] Fuck this shit, I can’t even smoke it. I’m going home!
800 S Canal Street
Chicago, Illinois
Customer: Do you have a copy machine?
CSR: Um, no… This is a book store.
Customer: Yeah, but I just want to copy this book.
CSR: We sell books.
Customer: But I don’t want to buy it, I just want to copy it.
CSR: Then maybe you should try a library. We sell books.
Customer: But I’m here now, and I want to copy this book.
CSR: Look, okay, buy the book take it down to Kinkos and copy it, then return it.
Customer: I think that’s illegal. I’d like to report you to your manager.
Book store
Pensacola, Florida
Overheard by: Michelle
Guy to his wife: Hey… look at this guy’s picture on the wall. He looks like he is miserable and doesn’t like being at work.
Home Depot Employee whose picture is on the wall: That was taken on a bad hair day!
Man: Oh… sorry. Where would you find paint?
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: Home Depot Shopper
