Customer: I’d like a double hamburger.
McGenius: Is that like a double cheeseburger without cheese?
McDonald’s
Bucksport, Maine
Overheard by: Mr. E. Meat
Customer: I’d like a double hamburger.
McGenius: Is that like a double cheeseburger without cheese?
McDonald’s
Bucksport, Maine
Overheard by: Mr. E. Meat
Male coworker in all-male meeting: I don’t know where Jill* is. She is pregnant. Maybe she’s palpitating.
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Overheard by: Grammatically Stunned
Employee #1: May I take your order, please?
Drive-thru customer: I want a Double Whopper, plain — only cheese and a little mustard.
Employee #1: … I’m sorry, we don’t sell Double Whoppers here.
Customer: Oh, you don’t? Okay, let me get just a Whopper, then.
Employee #2: Sir, we don’t sell Whoppers. This is Wendy’s.
Customer, unfazed: Oh. Okay then.
1066 Independence Boulevard
Norfolk, Virginia
Overheard by: wage slave
Professor: People never say half the things they are supposed to have said. I mean, just ask Jesus — ‘It wasn’t me, it was my flippin’ disciples.’
Queens University
Kingston, Ontario
Canadia
Employee #1: So, does [Wheels] do coke? It sure as hell seems like he does.
Employee #2: No man, he’s from Montreal.
Employee #1: Oh. Why does that make sense?
101 Autopark Circle
Toronto, Ontario
Boss: You can’t handle the truth!
Co-worker: Is that from a movie?
Boss: Yeah. You know: You can’t handle the truth!
Co-worker: Mmm, don’t know that one.
31 Hillman Avenue
Ewing, New Jersey
Overheard by: Susan Harrison
Boss: How’s your work coming along?
Employee: Umm, well 98% of the time I don’t do anything but refresh my email…but that’s going well.
1150 15th Street
Washington, DC
Woman with bandaged finger: Ever since I cut my finger, it’s been so difficult doing stuff…typing, getting dressed, eating…
Woman with missing hand: I can’t even imagine.
1515 Broadway
New York, NY
Customer: I want to ask you about the solid wood tubing. Is that
hollow?
CSR: The Solid Wood Tubing?
Customer: Yes.
CSR: No, it is solid.
Customer: Oh, I see.
737 Main Street
Buffalo, New York
Employee: How does my butt look in these pants?
Boss: What? You can’t ask me that.
Employee: Oh…Can I ask you if someone else is my boss?
Boss: No, Brian.
Employee: How about if I’m not working here any more?
Boss: Still no.
Employee: Wow, having a job sure is different from college.
2445 M St NW
Washington, DC
