Cashier: You’re new? What’s your name?
Newbie: Ryan.
Cashier: Brian?
Newbie: Ryan.
Cashier: It’s good to know you, Brian.
Newbie: Ryan. It’s Ryan, with an ‘R.’
Cashier: Huh? What do you mean, ‘with an R’? Is there any way to spell Brian without an ‘R’?
Newbie: I suppose not, no.
2020 Gunbarrel Road
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Auto claims adjuster on phone: I'm authorized to offer you $1,000 for the pain and suffering I'm about to give you.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Customer: I need to send an international wire transfer for 1,000 euros please.
Teller: Okay, let me check…yeah, we can do that. How much is that in money?
Customer: Excuse me?
Teller: How much is that in money?
Customer: Do you mean how much is it in US dollars?
Teller: Yeah, how much is it in money?
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Currency Expert
Editor: A 35-year-old woman died, and when her family went to clean out her apartment they found three fetuses in the freezer.
Producer: Were they pre-term fetuses or post-term fetuses?
Reporter: Uh, those would be called ‘babies.
Murfreesboro Road
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: lp’s habit
Office mate: Someday I'm going to have to crawl under my desk and pick up my husband…
Memphis, Tennessee
Overheard by: Andrea
Peon: Yeah, that would be a total chick magnet. Just say, ‘Hey, you wanna come and, uh, meet my manatee?’
1100 Broadway
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Clair
Coworker #1, in call center, taking a caller off hold: Thanks for holding me.
Coworker #2: Are you having problems at home?
Germantown Parkway
Memphis, Tennessee
Secretary: If we call this basket “inhouse” mail, shouldn’t we call this basket “outhouse” mail?
401 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee
Customer: Could you bring some crackers for him? (points to toddler)
Waiter: Sure, do you want me to crumble them up and throw them on the floor for him too?
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
