Office girl on cell: Come on, Mom, you know how I feel about socks!
621 East 9th Street
Des Moines, Iowa
Office girl on cell: Come on, Mom, you know how I feel about socks!
621 East 9th Street
Des Moines, Iowa
Office girl #1: My son's girlfriend gets sandwiches that are just bread and cheese.
Office girl #2: Just bread and cheese?
Office girl #1: Yep, just bread and cheese.
Office girl #3: No bread? Just cheese?
Office girl #1: Bread and cheese.
Des Moines, Iowa
Overheard by: B Frazier
Customer: So where in the instruction manual does it tell me to save the receipt?
Customer Service Rep.: You’re kidding me, right? You mean to say that you have to be told to save your receipt?
Customer: Yes, I do.
Customer Service Rep.: So, if you were to go out and buy a roll of toilet paper, it would have to say “Tear here, wipe there” or else you wouldn’t know how to use it? Because both are pretty much common sense, sir.
835 41st Street
Des Moines, Iowa
Overheard by: christiana (while doing remote observations on customer service calls)
Counselor: I'm sure he's a nice kid, but he looks like a beaver.
Decorah, Iowa
Overheard by: skm
Male office worker to another: Dude, you smell like my grandma… And my grandma smells delicious!
Des Moines, Iowa
Secretary: Nothing we do here is worth death.
Decorah, Iowa
Overheard by: It's True
Old office lady #1, looking at People magazine: Matthew Broderick has gray hair!
Old office lady #2: Who?
Old office lady #1: Matthew Broderick… He was in the Karate Kid movies.
Des Moines, Iowa
Overheard by: B Fraz
Manager: Take the mop bucket over to the mop area.
Employee: How?
Iowa
Female bookseller: How long does it usually take to get your deposit back on an apartment?
Male bookseller: It could be two or three months, depending on how big of an asshole they want to be.
Female bookseller: Hm. (pause) Yeah, I prefer smaller assholes.
Bookstore
Des Moines, Iowa
Coworker on telephone with client: No…I really don't know what kind of padlock to buy for a tent. (tries hard not to laugh)
North Liberty, Iowa
Overheard by: Krystal
