Midsouth

Customer service clerk #1: Whew! It stinks in here. Did the bug exterminator guy spray for bugs in here today?
Customer service clerk #2: No, one of the sales reps just walked through. You are smelling salesman cologne.

5760 East Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi

Overheard by: Brain Dancing

Coworker on phone: You live in the country, they were there first! If you didn’t want any animals you should have lived in the city!

333 North Meridian
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Overheard by: fransen comes alive

Girl: Excuse me, do you carry tonic water?
Stock boy: Yeah, I think so. I mean, if we have it, it’s probably somewhere in the store.
Girl: Uh, thanks.

Schnooks
Memphis, Tennessee

Office manager: I mean, when we interview warehouse employees, why are we asking them if they have Excel experience?
Warehouse supervisor: What the hell is ‘Excel’?

England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

At a company golf outing. . .

Member of other foursome: Did somebody lose a club cover?
Coworker, in the saddest voice ever: Was it a gorilla?

457 IH 45 South
Huntsville, Texas

GRE taker #1: That math section sure was hard.
GRE taker #2: Yeah, I was real confused with the angle-side-angle calculations.
GRE taker #1: I thought it was tough, too, but thankfully I took astrology last semester.

Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, North Carolina

Designer to photo researcher: Try to find a nice child abuse shot.

10801 N. MoPac Expressway
Austin, Texas

Overheard by: always listening

Guy to his wife: Hey… look at this guy’s picture on the wall. He looks like he is miserable and doesn’t like being at work.
Home Depot Employee whose picture is on the wall: That was taken on a bad hair day!
Man: Oh… sorry. Where would you find paint?

Dallas, Texas

Overheard by: Home Depot Shopper

Sales guy: He was from another country. A made-up country, though.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Clueless coworker on voicemail: Hello? [pause] Heelllooo?
Hmmm… [click]

13155 Noel Road
Dallas, Texas