Retail

RVP: Hey, I thought you were out sick today.
Sales manager: Nope, I was just tired.
RVP: [peeved] Nice.
Sales manager: Hey, you brought me here for my brutal honesty.

8833 W. Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, California

Busboy: I’m joining the national guard next week. You get lots of tuition for only one weekend a month and two weeks a year.
Manager: Yeah, right. Pick me up a key chain from Baghdad, would you?

Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu

New-Age employee: Yeah, my granddaughter is an Indigo Child. She can talk to the dead. But, if you ask me, her parents really aren’t doing enough with her talent.

1712 Spring Garden Street
Greensboro, North Carolina

Overheard by: Atheist cashier in the wrong line of work

Young boy: Mom! We’ve been in line for a really long time!!
Mother: No, not really. Stop complaining.
Young boy: Yes we have! We got here at 10:00, and it’s almost 12:30!!
Mother: Damn the public school system for teaching you how to tell time.

Petco
Enfield, Connecticut

Overheard by: Dark_Kitty

Collegiate on cell: Hey, Mom, you’ll be proud of me — I actually bought books at Borders — to read!

Barnes & Noble, Center City
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: book stacker

Old woman: How dare you pick me up in a truck? I drive a Cadillac and you pick me up in a truck?! This is the last Cadillac I ever buy from you!
Manager: That’s not much of a threat, now, is it? Seriously, look at you. I mean, there’s not a lot of Cadillacs left in you, is there?

Car dealership
Ohio

Manager to bagger: I need you to do a big favor for me… Actually, it’s not a favor so much as your job.

Food and drug store
San Diego, California

Overheard by: Sarah

Cashier: Ma’am, you do realize there’s a fire ban in effect that includes charcoal grills?
Customer: Oh, I thought that was only for the locals.

City Market
Buena Vista, Colorado

Overheard by: One of the locals

Manager: Alyssa calls burritos “burros.” What's the difference? I've always heard it called “burrito.” What do you call it?
Graphic artist and authentic Mexican: “Taco grande.”
Web designer and office coquette: That was my nickname in high school.

Sex Toy Company
Las Vegas, Nevada

Overheard by: Looks like Diva

Customer: How much for a bulk load of cedar mulch?
Teen cashier: Uhhh… it’s about 50 dollars per yard.
Customer: What’s topsoil?
Teen cashier: It’s like dirt.

350 Goose Lane
Guilford, Connecticut

Overheard by: Donde Esta