Kid holding toy: If I don’t get this, I’m going to die.
Dad: You’re not getting anything today!
Kid: Do you want me to die? You want me to die! You’re killing me! You’re killing me!
University Mall
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Kid holding toy: If I don’t get this, I’m going to die.
Dad: You’re not getting anything today!
Kid: Do you want me to die? You want me to die! You’re killing me! You’re killing me!
University Mall
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Older woman library user: I'd like to send a sympathy card to Perry Como.
Librarian: I thought he died several years ago.
Library user: I know. The last address I have is in Jupiter, Florida.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: librain13
Nursing home resident, about stuffed cow: Pepper had a baby!
Staff: What's his name?
Resident: Pepper pea!
Staff: How's the baby doing?
Resident: He's peeing everywhere!
Staff: I thought Pepper was a boy.
Resident: He is.
Staff: Then how did Pepper have a baby?
Resident: That's what I'd like to know!
Greenwood, South Carolina
Overheard by: Dana
CEO: Everyone was at that meeting! If your name began with a consonant or a vowel, you were in the fuckin’ meeting!
Elmsford, New York
Overheard by: Bored Beyond Belief
Cop: Where’s the chief?
Higher-up: He’s out this week. He had surgery on Tuesday.
Cop: Oh, yeah, that’s right. I heard he was having a hysterectomy.
Higher-up: Um, yeah.
Newark, Delaware
Salesguy #1: …so she totally doesn’t mind sexual harassment.
Salesguy #2: Really?
Salesguy #1: Well, she does and she doesn’t. It depends on who’s doing it.
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Client in high end salon to receptionist: I've got to ask you: how do you keep such a fabulous year-round tan?
Receptionist, giving blank stare: I'm half black.
Bellevue, Washington
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
