Words

Lady, to receptionist: Hi, I’m here for my internment…Oh, no! I mean internship!

875 Stevenson Street
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: Waiting for Internment too

Clerk, watching two inexperienced clerks trying to help each other: That’s like the dog leading the blind.

South Lamar Street
Roxboro, North Carolina

Overheard by: Dun Ben Ther

Delivery driver: I’ve never had to stop and check in before.
Guard: Yes, you have. We started doin’ it after two-eleven.
Delivery driver: You mean nine-eleven?
Guard, rolling eyes: No. Two-eleven, when them people crashed them planes. Two-eleven.
Delivery driver: That was in September.
Guard: Two-eleven.

Circle Center Mall Security Office
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu

Sales girl #1: Hey, guys, there are two Oriental ladies walking to the back. Help them if you can.
Sales girl #2: We Orientals prefer to be called “Asians.”

South Coast Plaza
Costa Mesa, California

Overheard by: another oriental

Co-Worker, on phone: When were the children terminated?…Were they terminated here in Tulsa? I’ll need to see a copy of that order.

41st and Mingo
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Guy #1: Who was Chief then?
Guy #2: According to the record, Dick Eaton.
Guy #3: Wait. Dick Eaton? So if he were filling out a form today, last name first, he’d be…
Guy #1: You’re right! Case closed, that says it all!

26 Federal Plaza
New York, New York

Overheard by: R. Smith

European: Did you just use the word “impetus”? I think you’re the first American I have heard use that word.

3695 Freedom Circle
Santa Clara, California

Overheard by: bbs

Admin: I just ordered the pizzas, but I don’t know if it’s gonna get here. I kept telling them, “Our building is on Exalander Road,” and they didn’t even know where that was.
Boss: We work on Alexander Road.
Admin: I know, that’s what I kept telling them. Exalander Road. But they had no clue.

Route 1 South and Alexander Road
Princeton, New Jersey

Overheard by: Emily

Library patron: Do y’all know where this book is?
Library employee: Try looking by periodicals.
Library patron: Who?

100 Decatur Street
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: Jebediah

Co-Worker #1: Don’t say “big business.” They’ll just write us off as anti-corporate crazies.
Co-Worker #2: But we are anti-corporate crazies.

Pause.

Co-Worker #1: Yes…but we don’t want to be written off as anti-corporate crazies nonetheless.

1700 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC

Overheard by: ECO