General Idiocy

Manager: Man, you guys from Alabama are hard-core putting someone getting the chair on the back of your quarter.
Boss from Alabama: That’s not someone getting the chair — that’s Helen Keller!
Manager: You guys electrocuted Helen Keller?!

Campus Point Drive
San Diego, California

Student studying energy, to another: Do you think this a controlled or uncontrolled nuclear erection?

International School of Milan
Milan
Itlay

Coworker #1: Yeah, my DVD won’t record my VHS tapes over to disks. I was messing with it all night.
Coworker #2: Well, DVD players sometimes have different formats — maybe you just didn’t get the right format.
Coworker #1: Here are the disks I was using. Are these the right format for my DVD recorder?
Coworker #2: These are CDs. Where did you get these from?
Coworker #1: What?
Coworker #2: You need to get DVD disks, these are for music.
Coworker #1: I just want to put my VHS tapes on DVDs, and it’s not working.
Coworker #2: You bought CDs, you need to go and buy DVDs to do that.
Coworker #1: I’ve been working on this for the past two days.

Chicago, Illinois

Cashier: … And do you have your Hudson’s Bay credit card with you today?
Gangster #1: My what?
Cashier: HBC credit card. It’s gold.
Gangster #1: Oh, yeah, man. I think so. Uhhh… Is this it?
Cashier: No, that’s your MasterCard. I’m looking for the HBC card, if you have it.
Gangster #1: Oh, yeah, man, HBC! They always be sendin’ me bills in the mail and shit, you know, and I don’t even know why!
Gangster #2: Dude, that’s HSBC. That’s the bank.
Gangster #1: Oh.
Gangster #2: You don’t even know the difference, do you?
Gangster #1: Not really. So, like, one has an S and one doesn’t have an S, right? Is that it?
Gangster #2: No, it’s completely different.
Gangster #1: Well, so what, man? I still gotta pay the bills whether it has an S or whether it don’t have an S, right?

Zellers Lansdowne Mall
Richmond, British Columbia
Canadia

History professor after a long explanation: But I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, though.

University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Information technology director to management team: You know me – I’m not real technological.

125 S Congress Street
Jackson, Mississippi

Employee #1: Is Thailand really a type of land?
Employee #2: I think it’s a city in… China, maybe?
Employee #1: Ohhh.

Post office
West Palm Beach, Florida

Coworker #1 looking at a nickel: What the heck is this?
Coworker #2: It’s about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Coworker #1: Didn’t they eat each other?

Wichita, Kansas

Teen clerk: The TV commercial said it is a two-day sale. What day of the week is Twoday?
Adult clerk: Not ‘Twoday,’ but one day plus one day equals two days for the sale.
Teen clerk: Oh, okay… Then what two days of the week are called ‘Twoday’?

5760 Highway 80 E
Pearl, Mississippi

Overheard by: Brain Dancing

Customer: I’m looking for a special kind of bead.
Bead store clerk: Okay, can you describe it?
Customer: Well, it’s flat and has four holes in it. I know there’s a name for them, but I just can’t remember it. You can sew them into clothing…
Bead store clerk: Do you mean a button?
Customer: Yes! Do you have buttons?
Bead store clerk: Um, no.

Newport Village
Port Moody, British Columbia
Canadia