General Idiocy

Phone rep #1: What’s that?! A cheeseburger without cheese?!
Phone rep #2: Yeah. It’s called a hamburger.

500 North Central Expressway
Plano, Texas

Overheard by: amused coworker

Diner: Why is it that whenever ‘sour cream’ appears on your menu, it has an asterisk beside it?
Waiter, condescendingly: Because those dishes have sour cream in them.

800 Block, Rockville Pike
Rockville, Maryland

Overheard by: Doctor Whom

Office chick: Is that an Islamic newspaper?
Office guy: It’s the Wall Street Journal.

15 East 26th Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: Erak

Manager: … So let him know that he has 60 cards here, and he’ll be charged for all 60. If he doesn’t want all 60 — say he only wants 50 — then take five away and bring those back.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Alexis

Physics teacher: How thick do you think a steel pole would have to be that connected the Earth and the moon if there were no more gravity?
Student #1: 10 inches?
Student #2: Five miles?
Student #3: No, way bigger than that.
Physics teacher: It would be about the size of the state of New York.
Student #1: Damn.
Student #2: Ha! I was right!
Student #3: You think that New York is five miles across?!
Student #2: Okay, that’s more like Delaware-sized. Is Delaware even a state?

Staples High School
Westport, Connecticut

Assistant: I made the reservations for you. Give me a minute and I’ll get you the ballistics.
Boss: Ballistics?
Assistant: Yeah, the ballistics — your flight arrangements and your hotel confirmation. You know, the ballistics!

39th Street and 8th Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: I can’t believe I hired her

Poli-Sci professor: John Locke said, ‘In the beginning, all the world was America.’ What did he mean by this?
Student: Continental drift?

University of British Columbia
Canadia

Coworker #1: New Mexico is a state? Since when?
Coworker #2: Uh, for quite some time now.
Coworker #1: Oh. Well, I didn’t know West Virginia was a state until last year.

New York, New York

Overheard by: She has a college degree

Mailroom worker: I can’t take him to the Christmas party — he oh beast!
Receptionist: He’s a beast? You mean he’s ugly?
Mailroom worker: No, he’s fat. Like really fat. He’s oh beast.

Floor 7, 9460 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California

50-ish woman #1: I had this fish for lunch, and it was sooo salty!
50-ish woman #2: Was it? Well, it is from the ocean, you know.
50-ish woman #1: No, it was seasoned with too much salt.
50-ish woman #2: It doesn’t even have to be seasoned! It’s from the ocean!

Elevator, 16th Street and JFK Boulevard
New York, New York