Money

Telephone customer: Hi, I need to find the international rates for calling to France.
Local phone operator: France? That’s in England, right?

55 Water Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: disbelief

Shopper #1: Like, look at this credit card. The numbers are raised. I wonder why they do that.
Shopper #2: It’s like Braille or something. They do it so blind people can read the numbers.

Oviedo Marketplace Mall
Oviedo, Florida

Employee #1: What are we collecting for?
Employee #2: Shelly* crashed her car and we are helping her out.
Employee #1: What? Has she never heard of insurance? Uh uh, I ain’t putting in!

1046 George Town
Grand Cayman

Overheard by: not throwing in either

Buyer: It’s great. We bought a ton of old Levi’s jeans dirt cheap, scuffed them up, and are selling them for two hundred dollars apiece.
Store manager: That’s genius! How much are we paying you again?

729 East Lancaster Road
Villanova, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Genevieve

Lunchbreaker: Do you want half my cheeseburger?
Worker: No.
Lunchbreaker: Oh, d’oh. I forgot.
Worker: If I’m going to eat meat again, I wanna eat a slab of beef that is over thirty dollars. I want to make sure that when I’m in the bathroom with cramps, that it is worth it.

1 Easton Oval
Columbus, Ohio

Two real estate agents are returning from lunch.

Experienced agent: You’re never going to make any money if you keep getting drunk like this.

73 West 19th Street
New York, New York

Portfolio Manager: She’s pissed that I didn’t sell the stock before it
went down.
Trader: Don’t you know that you are supposed to know when that’s gonna
happen?
Portfolio Manager: I guess not…

1900 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, Ohio

Manager: You all need to help out and pull a shift in the Concierge Department. This is what team work is all about. I make too much money to help in the Concierge Department.

47 East Beaver Creek Boulevard
Avon, Colorado

Colleague: You can’t pay to stuff that. I mean, that’s a handjob at best.

1150 City View Street
Eugene, Oregon

Employee #1: I don’t know what to write.
Employee #2: How about, “I’m surprised you cheap skanks chipped in ten bucks a piece”?
Employee #1: …I was thinking more, “I am sure I will get a lot of use out of this.”

327 West Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, Michigan