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 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
Female employee: I'm going to wear a handlebar mustache. For that androgynous look.
City Centre
Bristol
England
Girl: How big is it?
Guy: 19 inches.
Girl: Only?
Edmonton
Alberta
Canadia
Telemarketer with heavy Indian accent: Hello, I would like to speak to whoever handles your Yellow Pages or SuperPages needs. Who would that be?
Guy, interrupted at work: Do you not see a problem with the phonebook sales person calling and saying they don't know who they are calling?
Honolulu, Hawaii
Girl #1, entering bathroom stall: Sorry, I didn't feel like peeing next to you.
Girl #2, without skipping a beat: Oh, that's okay.
Salisbury, Maryland
Girl: Which one will fit in my port?
IT guy: The plugs are all the same size.
Girl: Oh, so I just push it in? I don't want to just jam it in there and not have anything happen for me.
NIH Campus
Bethesda, Maryland
Coworker sprawled on couch, humming taps: This is for all the brain cells that have been lost today.
Willow Lawn
Richmond, Virginia
Overheard by: Still giggling
Office drone to another: I just put it in my mouth thinking it was sweet, started sucking on it and it keeps getting hotter.
Department of Commerce
South Carolina
Office peon to big boss lady: Oh, move! You're taking up the whole hallway!
Big boss lady: I beg your pardon?
Office peon: Did I say that out loud? You know how people usually say that when they're joking? I'm not joking… I really didn't mean to say it.
Big boss lady: Perhaps you should follow me to my office.
Office peon: Yes… probably.
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: better at (not) talking
Hotel guest: Do you have any forks?
Girl at front desk: Yeah, how many would you like?
Hotel guest: Two. But they're forks, right? Not sporks? You know what sporks are, right?
Girl at front desk: Yes, they're hybrid spoon/fork things.
Hotel guest: Yeah… Reminds me of when I was in prison.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: …what?
