Older woman library user: I'd like to send a sympathy card to Perry Como.
Librarian: I thought he died several years ago.
Library user: I know. The last address I have is in Jupiter, Florida.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: librain13
Older woman library user: I'd like to send a sympathy card to Perry Como.
Librarian: I thought he died several years ago.
Library user: I know. The last address I have is in Jupiter, Florida.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: librain13
CSR #1, listening to “Pretty Woman”: I love this Elvis song.
CSR #2: This isn't an Elvis song!
CSR #1: Yes, it is.
CSR #2: Did you fall on your head?
CSR #1: I tore my mother's placenta.
Scarborough
Canadia
Overheard by: Cnote
20-something woman at pharm counter, in slightly squeaky voice: The latest book of Deepak Chopra… You know him, right? No?”
20-something woman at register behind pharm counter: Who is he, a rapper?
Rite Aid
Chatham, New York
Overheard by: eve
Editor, recommending a story's assignment: If you blow Al Green, it's gonna be bad!
Augusta, Georgia
Manager: Who's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young? Are they a law firm?
Toronto
Canadia
Guy to Egyptian coworker: Pam*, it's your song–Egyptian lover!
(Egyptian coworker just stares at him)
Santa Barbara, California
Data entry specialist #1: Why does Miley Cyrus repeat that lyric in her song? And a Jay-C song was on! And a Jay-C song was on!
Data entry specialist #2: “Jay-c”? Do you mean “Jay-Z”?
Data entry specialist #3: I think she needed to add thirty seconds to the song, so she just sang the same lyric over and over.
Data entry specialist #1: That's not a party in the USA! That's just bad song-writing.
Data entry specialist #2: It's brainwashing.
Receptionist: Wait, you all don't like Miley Cyrus?
St. Louis, Missouri
Coworker to new employee: Love the Avril Lavigne poster, Susan*. I had no idea you were such a fan!
New employee: Never missed a concert in the Midwest! Avril really speaks to me. Her songs are so profound.
Arrogant man in cube across: Oh, come on Susan! As a 40-something woman with bad style and three kids, what could a 18-year-old possibly teach you that is so profound? If you started wearing heavy black eyeliner and fishnets, then maybe I would believe you.
Edina, Minnesota
White female applicant taking computer test: Wait. My screen just went all Stevie Wonder.
Manager: Stevie Wonder?
Female applicant: You know… All black.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Overheard by: Seriously?
