General Idiocy

Cube girl #1: I am so excited! The Olympics start tonight and I love them!
Cube girl #2: Yeah they're pretty cool.
Cube girl #1: Cool?! I watch them every year!

Salem, North Carolina

Overheard by: Jessica B.

Attorney on phone: The thing is that, it is not the teacher's responsibility to get your kids out of bed, it's yours.

Ellicott Square Building
Buffalo, New York

Overheard by: wonders if they would make coffee while they were threre

Plumber to receptionist: I'm here to fix the urinal.
Female receptionist: Is that in the women's restroom or the men's?

Grove City, Ohio

Overheard by: Real Chicks Stand up to Pee

Teller, giving ATM instructions: Now just hit the little button that says “confirm” on the screen.
Customer: Is that the red button that says “cancel”?

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Overheard by: bankbug

Intern #1: Paul, are you chewing on a battery?
Intern #2: Yeah, it's fun. I'm bored and it shocks me.

Washington, DC

Assistant to boss: I need to leave early today for a dentist's appointment. Would that be okay?
Boss: Sure, is at 2:30?
Assistant: 2:30?? No, it's at 3.
Boss: Well, it should be at 2:30.
Assistant: Why?
Boss (chuckling): Because you're tooth hurty. Get it? Two thirty, tooth hurty.
Assistant: Are you kidding me?

Dallas, Texas

Talks Normal Speed and Everything

Canadian freelancer: Is your husband Canadian?
Texan producer: No, he's real smart.

Dallas, Texas

Overheard by: Sharon

Female sales associate to male sales associate: Am I really that dumb?
(male sales associate gives her a blank stare)
Female sales associate: Oh my god! I really am that dumb!

Woodbury Commons, New York

Ultra white female peon: Yo, dat Sea World pen is the shit!
Ultra white male peon: What, thisse one?
Ultra white female peon: Nah, man… The Sea World pen! It's da bomb!
Ultra white male peon: Naw, somebody ganked mine!

Conference Way North, Boca Raton FL

Overheard by: Straight Trippin, Boo

Customer at deli: There's not enough holes in that Swiss cheese. That's no good. There's supposed to be more holes. I don't know whether to get a quarter pound or a half. Let me taste it…alright, give me a little more than a quarter pound…that's too much!

Third Avenue
Manhattan, New York