Older salesman to younger engineering draftsman having a meltdown: Are you potentially going to go postal on us?
Birmingham, Alabama
Overheard by: Stefanie
Salesman: And then you’re cruising for a bruising.
Sales manager: How old are you?
Salesman: What?
Sales manager: "Cruising for a bruising"? My grandma said that!
Salesman: How about "truckin’ for a fuckin’"?
Sales manager: OK.
111 Oak Street
Bonner Springs, Kansas
Sales guy: Sooo, how do I get on our intranet again?
His assistant: We put this on your Favorites list, remember? We’ve done this before.
Sales guy: No.. no.. I’m not seeing it.
Assistant: Yes, the very first time I showed you how to log in, I had you add it to your Favorites first.
Sales guy: I don’t know, but I know I’m not seeing it.
Assistant: Hmm, I can’t remember if it was under a subfolder or not.
Sales guy: What are you talking about?
Pause
Assistant: Okay, let’s start from the beginning… Open up your Internet Explorer….
Sales guy: Okay… done…
Assistant: Now click on Favorites….
Sales guy: Oooh. Is it called [Company Inc]-home?
Assistant: Mmm hmm. That would be it.
Cubicle neighbor: Is this the same voice you use to explain things to your daughter?
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Sales to admin: I'll be missing golf next week because I'll be off getting married. Oh, wait… It's the week after next.
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Customer: I'm looking for the bible.
Shop assistant, typing into computer: Who's it by?
Bookshop
England
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
Sales rep on phone: Okay, so that’s V as in ‘voluptuous,’ A as in ‘anatomy,’ N as in ‘nutrition…’
6105 Oakleaf Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Ren
Salesperson: But yeah, I agree with you — you should really stop pissing on my shoes when we go to the toilet together.
Reihstrasse 28
Aachen, Germany
Overheard by: PW
Salesman: Is it the size that you didn't like or can I somehow make it better for you?
Beachwood, Ohio
Sales guy to another: The town I grew up in was a little village, like a Mayberry; it had bars and stuff to do…
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Mayberry had alcohol!?
