General Idiocy

Woman to suit looking at a travel magazine: I’ve been there.
Suit: Oh, yeah? Where is that?
Woman: I don’t know.

Reagan National Airport
Arlington, Virginia

Executive forwarding an email to whole company: I don’t know if any of you have seen this summary. You may find it a useful ‘Idiot’s Guide.’
Employee: Are you implying everyone you just sent this to is an idiot?
Executive: Not in the slightest! I was implying the guy who sent it to me thought I was an idiot.

1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York

Pilot: Tower, there’s a piece of foreign object debris on the taxiway in front of the tower.
Tower: Roger, we’ll send a truck right out to pick it up.
Pilot: Tower, disregard the FOD. It just hopped off the taxiway.
Tower: Disregarding.

Air Force Pilot training base
Texas

Overheard by: Redstick Zero Five

Male administrator: So, are you a prostitute?
Female administrator: Excuse me?
Male administrator: It’s a line from that movie, Monster.
Female administrator: You can’t just go around saying things like that to people.
Male administrator: Oh. Well, I used to do it all the time at my old job.
Female administrator: Is that why you’re not working there anymore?

Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC

Overheard by: the fly on the wall

Supervisor: She used to wear all sorts of things in her hair, and then one day she showed up with a condom, and we were like, ‘Honey, that’s not a scrunchie.’

473 Ridge Road
Dayton, New Jersey

Overheard by: office peon

Guy: Are you a Republican?
Girl: No, I am a Demonican.
Guy: You mean Democrat?
Girl: Let’s change the subject.
Guy: Okay, well, who did you vote for in the 2004 election?
Girl: Clinton.
Guy: Yeah, let’s change the subject.

The Coffee Tree, 223 Watson Boulevard
Warner Robins, Georgia

Overheard by: Jonathan Willis

Bimbette #1: Like, what’s a millennium?
Bimbette #2: I think it’s, like, when the year changes or something.

Video store,
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia

Overheard by: A Thousand Years of Blondes

Female editor: Hey, is Plastic Man a real superhero?
Assistant: Yeah. There’s been some dispute about his origins, though.
Female editor: Oh, really? But he is real, right?
Assistant: Yeah.
Female editor: Okay, great, thanks.

233 Spring Street,
SoHo, New York

General manager: Should we fire Missy*? She was screaming at you in front of other employees.
Manager #1: I don’t know. What does Missy* feel we should do to her?
General manager: Uh, I didn’t ask her.
Manager #2: She thinks we should buy her a pizza and give her a raise. What the fuck do you think she feels we should do to her?

Indianapolis, Indiana

Grunt #1: I need to get some…
Grunt #2: Rum?
Grunt #3: Echinacea?

1 World Financial
New York City