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
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
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
