Ticket taker to patrons: Enjoy the movie! Theater ten is on the left. Enjoy your movie! [In exasperation, at same volume] I really, really hate this job!
Mississippi
Overheard by: Amused Movie Goer
Ticket taker to patrons: Enjoy the movie! Theater ten is on the left. Enjoy your movie! [In exasperation, at same volume] I really, really hate this job!
Mississippi
Overheard by: Amused Movie Goer
Visiting consultant: I think we saw every public restroom in San Francisco. Just what I wanted — a urine-filled holiday.
5760 Highway 80 East
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
CSR to client: You want the number 3 capitalized?
Oxford, Mississippi
Black woman: Cecil* has this giant boil on his back and he got this idea about using the vacuum cleaner…
White woman: Stop! I’m eating lunch here. No stories about boils.
Black woman: Would a story about Cecil’s idea about constipation and a vacuum cleaner be alright?
5760 East Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Accounts manager (shouting): This is our biggest sales event of the year! This is going to be bigger than ever! Big! Big! Big!
Accounts clerk: Does that mean I should get an extra roll of nickels at the bank?
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Tech: I don't need a list. I am very rememberful.
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Manager: First thing we do is get back control of petty cash.
HR clerk: Isn’t that like closing the barn door after the coke has been snorted?
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Young, pretty receptionist with Southern drawl to old salesman: You have the lowest motives with highest hopes that I have ever seen!
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
New hire: How many people work here?
HR clerk: About half of them.
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Colleague: What happened to the woman who used to process requisitions? Her office looks deserted.
Secretary: She’s gone.
Colleague: Is she going to be replaced?
Secretary: We don’t replace people in this office; we just hire someone new.
1400 John R. Lynch Street
Jackson, Mississippi
