General Idiocy

Four-year-old holing up a toy: Mommy, can I get this?
Mom: It says it’s for kids ages eight and up. How old are you?
Four-year-old: Um… eight.

RadioShack
California

Overheard by: SK

Male coworker: Do you have any hot girlfriends?
Female coworker: Why?
Male coworker: I need a date to the Christmas party. She needs to be hot, so that I can make all the other guys jealous. Conservative hicks.
Female coworker: Passive aggressive, much? And no, I won't submit my friends to you evil desires.

Houston, Texas

Overheard by: Female Peon

Boss: Notice anything different about your blazer today?
Employee: No.
Boss: Well, I sewed it for you.
Employee: What? When?
Boss: Oh, a month or two ago, when you were out of the office for the day. You left it here, so I took it and sewed it.
Employee: Um, thanks.

300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

Japanese professor: The peroxides are very volatile. If you drop them, we have to be out of the building before they hit the floor.
Grad student: I won’t drop them.
Japanese professor: And only Japanese ninja can move that fast.
Grad student: OK.
Japanese professor: I am well trained in the art of the ninja.

10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio

Employee #1: I don’t understand what his problem is…
Employee #2: His problem? He’s low-level and he’s stupid.

Louisville, Kentucky

Overheard by: CB

Coworker #1, eating lunch: What have you got there? Steak?
Coworker #2: No, it's lamb.
Coworker #1: What's the difference?
Coworker #2: It comes from a lamb.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Employee #1: I always thought it was pronounced “fass-mile”. What is it?
Employee #2: Facsimile. It’s a fax.
Employee #1: Oh, I’ve never heard it called that before.

50 Oak Court
Danville, California

Manager: My new BM is awesome!
Subordinate: You mean BMW; the W is important.
Manager: Why?

Raynham, Massachusetts

Sales rep: Can you tell me why we have been behind on the uploading lately?
Tech girl: Yeah, that’s because we don’t have enough manhood right now.

El Monte, California

Overheard by: Cooly

Coworker on phone: Well, we just have to have choices because he is a vegetarian. (pause) Yeah, milk is okay, it's dairy, just no turkey or ham. (pause) Sure, eggs are fine, that's dairy. (pause) Well, I mean, it's fine, it hasn't been born yet!

Charlotte, North Carolina