Lady #1: How do I go there?
Lady #2: Take a train.
Lady #1: But I'm not sure where it goes.
Lady #2: I think it goes to the train station up there.
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lady #1: How do I go there?
Lady #2: Take a train.
Lady #1: But I'm not sure where it goes.
Lady #2: I think it goes to the train station up there.
Lynchburg, Virginia
Customer: Do you have ornaments of cities?
Employee: Yes, over here.
Customer: I'm looking for Seattle, it will probably have the Space Needle on it.
Employee: Sorry, I don't see that. We have astronauts, though.
Christmas Store
Frankenmuth, Michigan
Overheard by: Anita
Attorney, discussing potential vacation destinations: So, I was thinking Finland.
Paralegal: That's great. You know, one of my cousins spent a month in Iceland.
Attorney, exasperated: Iceland is way different from Finland: One's like an island, the other is like an isthmus.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Overheard by: Betsy
Older woman to employee: Italy is a country in Rome, right?
Barnes & Noble
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: kristen
Coworker: “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people”. Eleanor Roosevelt said that, and you know she was smart, 'cause she was uuuugleeeeeee!
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Counselor: Oh, I read about a blind couple that sailed to Australia without any assistance!
Secretary: They think it's Australia. Their kids just pulled them around the harbor for a few days, and took them to outback.
Tampa, Florida
Overheard by: Sandy Paws
Admin on phone with daughter: Sure, you can go to Puerto Rico with the Jones*. (pause) How far is Puerto Rico, anyways? (pause) It's not really that far, right? It's like, part of the US, but it's one of those things–like a stepchild.
Lutherville, Maryland
Secretary #1: I'm going to Atlanta this weekend.
Secretary #2: Cool! The city or the island?
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Vespertine
Coworker, ending discussion on Philadelphia's history: So the Liberty Bell was the bell people rang… when liberty came?
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Reporter on phone: I'm calling about Davy Crockett. You don't know him? Didn't he attack you with a machete last week? Right. Well, he died. Yeah. You heard about that? Right. So you do know him.
Keene, New Hampshire
