Cashier: Oh, I’m sorry, it says your funds are insignificant. Maybe you should call your bank?
917 East Broadway
Tempe, Arizona
Cashier: Oh, I’m sorry, it says your funds are insignificant. Maybe you should call your bank?
917 East Broadway
Tempe, Arizona
Pregnant teen cashier: Where is my prostate?
Coworker: Uhhh…
South Carolina
Administrative assistant: You know how they choose the pope with those smoke signals?
Staff member: Yeah…
Administrative assistant: It’s kind of like Groundhog’s Day, isn’t it?
Staff member: Wait, what? The movie or the holiday?
Administrative assistant: Duh, the holiday! What would the movie have to do with the pope?
Staff member: Well, what does the holiday have to do with the pope?
Administrative assistant: What?
Willamette Boulevard
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Jenny
Intern on third day of work: This is probably something I should have asked the first day, but… where’s the men’s room?
Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Principal: Do you know Fortran?
Research analyst: Yes, I think so… Wait, is that a man or a woman?
John Hancock Tower
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: economista
Clerk: What is your license plate number?
Customer: Five, T like ‘Tom,’ N like ‘Knife,’ L like ‘Lion*,’ five, two, seven*.
Clerk: N like ‘knife’?
Customer: That’s right!
DMV
Virginia
Guy looking across street: Is that girl sexy?
Friend: That’s a dude, man. How’s your eyesight?
Guy: I can see fine, I just can’t see clearly.
Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: alan
Employee #1: It’s spelled S as in ‘Shoenique…’
Employee #2: Huh?
Denver, Colorado
Confused boy at info desk: Um, excuse me, do you know where the books are?
Popular book store
Mays Landing, New Jersey
Overheard by: looking at some right now
Woman #1: Did you see the Avon book in accounting?
Woman #2: No, I haven’t.
Woman #1: Well, it’s all in Mexican. Only a little bit on the back was in English… Instead of having the whole thing in Mexican, they should’ve just done it half and half.
260 West Seeboth Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin