Sales

Sales associate: Can I help you find something, ma'am?
Woman: Oh, no thanks, my husband is just looking for a screw.

Hardware Store
Falmouth, Massachusetts

Sales rep: Where's Eric?
Secretary: Oh, he went to buy a trash can for tampons.

Countryside, Illinois

Sales rep, about receptionist's coat: What kind of fur is that? Gerbil?
Receptionist: No, I think it's some kind of fox, but it's spelled “f-a-u…”

Los Angeles, California

Retail lackey: I am fucking the shit out of this giraffe right now!

Folsom, California

Salesperson: You need to get the tri-band phone so you'll have service in all 63 states wherever you go.

Hargray Wireless
Ridgeland, Mississippi

Female sales associate to male sales associate: Am I really that dumb?
(male sales associate gives her a blank stare)
Female sales associate: Oh my god! I really am that dumb!

Woodbury Commons, New York

Sales associate #1: So I might go to Japan.
Sales associate #2: You should go. I would be Japanese as shit.
Sales associate #1: The only reason I wouldn't would be to get my degree in pharmaceuticals.
Sales associate #2: Oh. You should do that. I always need drugs.

Clothes Store
Williamsburg, New York

Complaining sales girl: I'm freezing!
Jaded sales girl: No, you're not, it's an illusion. They paint the walls a color that fools your brain into thinking it's cold.
Complaining sales girl: Really?
Jaded sales girl: No, not really. Now go put on a damn sweater and quit complaining to me!

Shop
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: sasha

Sales guy: I couldn't believe it! In the middle of the meeting with Frank* there, he just flips his thong up on the desk!

Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Overheard by: good heavens

Salesperson: I find it mildly insulting that, like, the entire state of Florida does not call me back.

New Providence, New Jersey