Librarian on phone: I've talked to you when you're high. It's not all that much fun!
Amherst, Massachusetts
Librarian on phone: I've talked to you when you're high. It's not all that much fun!
Amherst, Massachusetts
Coworker: Your baby is *so* adorable and scrumptious.
New mom: Yeah, Susie said she could eat her with some hot sauce.
Coworker: Wow, I didn't know Susie liked hot sauce.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Office peon on phone: Look, I'm busy right now so I'll have to call you back. What's your phone number?
Stupid office peon: Ummm… I don't know. I never call myself.
Nashville, Tennessee
Loud lady on phone: Hi, are you dead yet?
West Lafayette, Indiana
Overheard by: Rachel S.
Employee on phone with customer: Do we have any books about muffins? You mean how to make muffins? We have cookbooks… (pause) No? (pause) I don't think we have books… Just… About muffins.
Long Island, New York
Receptionist: It was 190 miles off the coast.
Secretary: That's like from here to Montauk.
Receptionist: I don't know. I don't know anything about geometry.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
Taxi dispatcher: Where to, miss?
Girl on cell: What?
Dispatcher: Where do you want to go?
Girl on cell, impatiently: I need to go to Huntington. (goes back to phone conversation)
Dispatcher: Excuse me miss, but whereabouts in Huntington?
Girl on cell, annoyed: What do you mean, whereabouts?
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: Morning Glory
Man to friend: Wait, they're charging us for stripping?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
CSR: Yes, ma'm, that cellphone plan has unlimited minutes.
Customer: And how many minutes is that exactly?
Oklahoma
Overheard by: couldn't make this up
Wide-eyed coworker,completely serious: You put the “pow” in “Kelly Kapowski”!
San Antonio, Texas
Overheard by: Is it 1990?
