General Idiocy

Bimbette reading back of Animal Farm: Wait… This is just like Charlotte’s Web!

Book store
Richmond, Virginia

Overheard by: Really?

Receptionist #1: Where's Linda today?
Receptionist #2: She's gonna be out for a while, she's having surgery on her thyroid.
Dentist: I didn't even know she had a thyroid.

Bayside, New York

Foreign coworker: What is a ‘jigga’?
Male coworker: I don’t know, I’m Turkish.
Female coworker: I don’t know, I’m White.

44th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, New York

IT guy to woman holding two cups: Ah: Two Cups, One Girl!

Blacktown
Australia

Overheard by: Tim

Counter girl: I’m sorry it’s taking so long, but we’re really busy today, and I’m the only one here.
Sympathetic customer: Yes, it’s always busier when you’re the only one, isn’t it?
Counter girl: Yes, especially when I’m alone.

Ybor Square
Tampa, Florida

Engineer #1: I just lost that guy.
Engineer #2: Didn’t you transfer him up front?
Engineer #1: He’ll call back.

The phone rings.

Engineer #1 on phone: Hello? …Uh, yeah, sorry about that…Here you go.

The phone rings.

9531 Rayne Road
Sturtevant, Wisconsin

Recruiter: So, what do you think of her qualifications?
Manager: Well, her experience looks great. I’m just not sure what a degree in English has to do with writing?

Naval Air Station North Island
San Diego, California

Overheard by: Teresa Minnich

Boss: Wow! This adhesive is really on there!
Worker: Yes, adhesive does that.
Boss: No, but it’s really, really stuck on. It’s just like…glue, yeah. Just like glue.
Worker: Adhesive is glue.
Boss: …It is just like glue.

855 Capitolio Way
San Luis Obispo, California

Rep #1: What are you looking at?
Rep #2: It's a Mexican government web page. You can see the clouds and stuff anywhere in the world.
Rep #1: Cool.
Rep #2: It's super cool. I like, like the clouds and stuff. Maybe I should have been a cardiologist.

Sioux City, Iowa

Blonde office drone: There's this plug that doesn't seem to go to anywhere, but when I pull it out from the wall thing, my desk lights turn off… I wonder why that is?

South Autin, Texas