Dumb girl: I'm really good at those things.
Supportive guy: What things?
Dumb girl: Those things, like with the letters. Like Roy G Biv and stuff like that.
Supportive guy: Oh, like mnemonic devices. That's good.
Asshole guy: So do you know what an i-d-i-o-t is?
Dumb girl: Uh… (thinks)… Shit! No!
Asshole guy: That's, like, really important for our job. You have to know an i-d-i-o-t.
Dumb girl: But I don't! Crap!
Hempstead Turnpike
Wantagh, New York
Overheard by: Kim, the Anit-Idiot.
Engineer to lunchroom: So do you guys know if we’re officially called ‘United States of America’ or is it just ‘United States’?
413 Pine St
Seattle, Washington
Employee: “Isolate”? Why’s there an E on the end?
Supervisor: …
Employee: Oh. Just kidding!
Supervisor: Seriously?
Employee: It looked weird.
Supervisor: So when you go to the coffee shop, do you order a “late”?
Employee: No, I order a latt. Two Ts.
500 Dulany Street
Alexandria, Virginia
Mail guy: Damn, you really want to get out of here.
Lawyer: Yes, like a bat out of hell.
Mail guy: Those are my sediments exactly.
212 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey
Overheard by: Elaine Van DeLay
Customer: Do you have a circular for this week?
Cashier: Uh, no. We don’t have those.
Customer: You don’t have a flyer advertising your weekly specials?
Cashier: Oh, you mean this?
Customer: Yeah! The circular. What I said.
Cashier: Ma’am, this is not a circular. This is a rectangle.
Target
Waldorf, Maryland
Overheard by: SeeNoSpeakNo
Old lady: Are they big ones?
Young lady: You only want big ones?
Old lady: That's all I ever do anymore.
Young lady: I'll find you a couple big ones.
Old lady: What's big to you?
Delran, New Jersey
Overheard by: Bruce Banner
Male flight attendant holding garbage bag and walking down aisle: Trash, garbage, jewelery, wallets. Trash, garbage, jewelery, wallets…
Continental Flight from Berlin to Newark, New Jersey
Office girl #1, singing: Sometimes I feel like saying “Lord, I just don't care,” but you got the love I need to see me through.
Office girl #2: Fitting with the rapture and all tomorrow. Sarah's pissed cause I am going to heaven and she isn't. Apparently the Jews are having rapture parties.
Burlington, Massachusetts
Workbee on cell: Woah, she clogged that toilet? That’s a new toilet! What’d she do, take a gorilla shit or something?!
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Eileen
Old office lady #1: I found out what “buggery” means.
Old office lady #2: What?
Old office lady #1: It means “sodomy.” It must be an older word for it.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Overheard by: PS
