General Idiocy

Presenter: So which button do I hit to get to the next slide?
Coworker: The space bar.
Presenter: Okay, and which one is that?

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: mystified

Customer pays with credit card featuring bear logo.

Employee, very curious: Oh, do you like bears?! [Customer looks quizzical while another employee laughs hysterically.]

Omaha, Nebraska

28-year-old intern: How do you spell your last name?
22-year-old intern: “Towne”. You know, like “City” only with an “e”.
28-year-old agent: Don’t you mean like “Town” with an “e”?
22-year-old intern: Nope, I mean “City”. But I suppose “Town” would work too. I never thought of that.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Office girl: Becky, do you have a tampon I could have? Sorry, but I'm dying here.
Pregnant office girl (staring at her): I'm pregnant.
Office girl: So?

Dallas, Texas

Ethics professor: So, if Mr. Wiener, some new lawyer, imputed his conflict to the firm, you’re going to have a lot of unhappy lawyers. They’ll be like, ‘You suck, Wiener!’ … Oh, God, did I just say that?

Malibu, California

Overheard by: ktmonster

Attorney #1: The governor suggested that everyone not evacuating write their social security number on their arm in indelible ink. I’m going to go through our database and tattoo the SSN of our richest client on my chest with my children as beneficiaries.
Attorney #2: You better get that tattoo on your ass because you’re going to be floating face down in the floodwater.

8555 United Plaza Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

IT guy: Oh, good I’m back to the top of your favorite people list.
Sales assistant: What? William* the hot A/C guy got bumped down?
IT guy: William’s gone; he’s off the list.
Sales guy: Isn’t William a gerbil?
Sales assistant: That’s my gerbil! We’re talking about the A/C guy now.
Sales guy: Ask Peter* about gerbil; he likes ’em.
IT guy: Ed breeds the gerbils.
Sales guy: I breed them just for you. Hairless, clawless gerbils.
Peter: Edsgerbils.com!
Sales guy: You don’t want one with claws..
Peter: Go to Edsgerbils.com to get your hairless gerbils.
Sales guy: Don’t forget clawless… you don’t want one with claws.
Office Manager: Stop with the gerbils.
Sales guy, to himself: No… don’t want one with claws….

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Tech support guy: So, your city is spelled C-A-M-B-R-I-D-G-E?
Office girl: Yes, that’s correct.
Tech support guy: And your state is M-A, for Miami, right?
Office girl: Um, well, yes — M-A is right…

1033 Mass Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Assistant: We want to confirm that you and your bomb-sniffing dog are on for 4:30.

1 New York Plaza
New York, New York

Coworker: All the hot guys kill people! Well, at least the black ones.

Pecos and Sunset Road
Las Vegas, Nevada