Employee: Hi! Can I help you?
Woman: Can I have a six-inch BLT on Italian?
Employee: I’m sorry, we’re out of Italian.
Woman: Can I just have white bread?
Employee: That’s the same as Italian.
Woman: Do you have plain bread?
13600 Solomons Island Road
Solomons, Maryland
Overheard by: I hate Jared.
Customer: What’s the difference between fiction and nonfiction? I always forget.
Dumbfounded coworker: Ummmm, nonfiction is true and fiction isn’t.
Next customer. . .
Coworker: Hi, do you need help?
Customer: Yeah, are we on the east coast or the west coast?
Dumfounded coworker: east coast [rolls eyes].
Customer: Then why do you sell books on west coast birds?
Angry manager: Because people like to go on vaction to bird watch.
Customer: That’s stupid. I don’t even know why my wife wants to look at these stupid birds anyway.
Angry manager to dumbfounded coworker: It’s gonna be one of those days, isn’t it?
Dumbfounded coworker: Yeah, all the retards are out tonight.
425 Jerico Turnpike
Syosset, New York
Customer: Why does the leather look like this on the the boot? Does this mean it's shit?
Sales girl: Well, I…
Customer: It's shit, isn't it? Tell me they're shit.
Sales girl: …their shit?
Customer: Perfect, I'll take them.
Shoe Shop
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Confused
Patron using computer: I want to print this. (points to screen)
Librarian, looking over patron’s shoulder: You want to print that YouTube video?
Public Library
Atlanta, Georgia
Diner #1: It’s got just a shade of spice?
Diner #2: Hmmm…
Diner #1: Because I really don’t like the bacon super spicy…
Waiter: Um, yes.
Smoketown Road
Woodbridge, Virginia
A customer is on speakerphone.
Customer: Which one is the spacebar?
Co-worker: How can you not know where the spacebar is?
Customer: I’m not good with computers.
Co-worker: But you’ve used a typewriter before, haven’t you?
Customer: Yeah, so?
460 Hillside Avenue
Needham, Massachusetts
Overheard by: S. Griffin
BK guy: What did you do this weekend?
BK girl: I went to Ohio for a concert.
BK guy: Ohio? You went all the way over by California for a concert?
BK girl: Ummm… No…
Burger King, Rhode Island
A knock is heard and then the visitor asks: Hello, is this the entrance to this door?
1405 Admiral Doyle Drive
New Iberia, Louisiana
Overheard by: chris the toadie
Customer: Can I have one of these items that is in a box?
Employee: Of course [retrieves item].
Customer: Can you check to make sure it isn’t broken?
Employee: No problem! [Cuts tape and opens box.]Customer: Great! Now, can I have one that hasn’t been opened?
670 University Avenue
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Canadia
Overheard by: Shaking Head in Disbelief
Tech support: Can you tell if it’s an Ethernet cable or a phone cable?
Customer: How do I tell?
Tech support: Well, if you hold it up to the cable attached to your phone and you look at the plug, if it looks the same, you’ve got a phone cable. If it’s bigger, it’s probably Ethernet.
Customer: Oh cool. Let me look.
Tech support: WAIT! [dial tone]
711 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts
