Questions

Man on cell: What made you stick a magnet up your nose?

5th & Jackson Streets
Topeka, Kansas

Manager #1: So did you have a nice birthday party?
Manager #2: Not yet. My older brother’s birthday is two weeks after mine, so we always just have one big party that weekend.
Manager #1: Oh, wait, wouldn’t that make you the older brother?

Panera, 3043 Glendale Avenue
Toledo, Ohio

Boss: So did you work things out?
Intern: Yeah, I talked to him when I dropped the tumor off.

Martin Street
Raleigh, North Carolina

Overheard by: sleeping with my eyes open

Intern chick: Where’s Ithaca?
Bronx boy: It’s upstate.
Intern chick: Upstate?
Bronx boy: Way upstate.
Intern chick: So where are we?
Bronx boy: We’re southern. The very southern tip of New York.
Intern chick: OK, how far north is it?
Bronx boy: Really far north… it’s near prisons, if you really want to know the truth.

125th Street & Lenox Avenue
New York, New York

Receptionist: Thank you for calling Widgets Inc.* How may I help you?
Customer: I got a letter from my insurance company telling me to fill out a paper with my social security number on it and send it to you. Who are you?
Receptionist: We work with the government to help you with your appeal.
Customer: Oh. So you won’t be selling my social security number to anybody in Nigeria?
Receptionist: No, sir, not today.

50 Square Drive
Rochester, New York

Overheard by: We’ll sell it tomorrow

Sales chick, holding sales order: How big is this part? Can it go UPS or does it need a skid?
Warehouse guy: Oh, no, that one is real small. It could fit up my nose.
Sales chick: Um… OK, moving on… They asked for this part a week ago, so I’m going to have it ship today instead of with their large order. Thanks!
Warehouse guy, sticking finger up his nose: Are you sure you don’t want to see how big it is?

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Dad: What are birds made of?
Little girl: Chicken?

505 Broadway
Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Overheard by: Chicken soup

Blond barmaid: What’s in a whiskey and coke?

Pesto Café
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Overheard by: retired from the service industry

Girl: Hey, Pete*, are you feeling smart today?
Guy #1: Maybe, why?
Girl: Do you know if Korea is a separate country, or is it, like, part of China or Japan?
Guy #1: I have no idea. Why do you need to know?
Girl: I’m trying to look up UPS rates for Korea, but I can’t find Korea.
Guy #1: Troy*!
Guy #2: Yes?
Guy #1: Is Korea a separate country from China or Japan?
Guy #2: Yes.
Girl: OK, well, I can’t find it on the drop-down. Is it called something else?
Guy #2: Republic of Korea?
Girl: No.
Guy #2: South Korea?
Girl: Oh… OK, there it is!

Phoenix, Arizona

Grease monkey #1: That woman over there…
Grease monkey #2: Yeah?
Grease monkey #1: Is she deaf or something?
Grease monkey #2: Yeah, she’s deaf.
Grease monkey #1: But she looks just like any other woman, yo!

Jiffy Lube, Rosecrans Boulevard
San Diego, California

Overheard by: BigWig