…And 36C.

Girl selling coffee: Do you want sugar in this?
Guy buying coffee: How big are your cups?
Girl selling coffee, face turning red: That's a bit personal!

Scotland

Overheard by: somedaftlassie

Posted on June 25, 2010
Customers, Employees, Food, Offers and requests, Questions, Rack, Scotland, Undies

He Gives the Same Answer to “Is the Bathroom Clean?”

Customer: Is this a cheese danish?
Hipster barista: It's lemon creme…kind of cheesy, I guess.
Customer: Is it good?
Hipster barista: Kind of… It's subjective.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Posted on June 10, 2010
Baristas, Customers, Food, Hipsters, Pennsylvania, Sensory experiences

…This Is My Cardio.

Butcher, holding up mallet: Do you want me to tenderize that for you?
Customer: Oh, no, that's okay, thanks.
Butcher: Please?

Adelaide Central Market
Australia

Posted on May 19, 2010
Australia, Customers, Employees, Weirdness, Wishes

Just As Well– I'm a Little Fuzzy on the Whole “Bagel” Concept

Customer: Do you have any lox?
Wal-Mart employee: Of course. They're over in hardware.
Customer: No. Lox, like bagels and lox.
Wal-Mart employee: Lots? Lots of bagels?
Customer: I'll just go to Publix.

Wal-Mart
Nashville, Tennessee

Overheard by: Heading for Publix, too.

Posted on May 3, 2010
Compare and contrast, Customers, Employees, Food, Idiots, Stores, Stupidity, Tennessee, Words

…Since That's What This Pie Looks Like.

Bakery clerk: It's not like my dog is going to run off and do drugs!
Confused person next in line: Um, ha ha, you never know.
Bakery clerk: Oh, we were just talking about childbirth.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Posted on March 26, 2010
Animals, Birthing, Compare and contrast, Customers, Drugs, Employees, Pennsylvania, Weirdness

It Also Slices, Dices, and Makes Julienne Fries

Shopper: I don't think I would trust a pregnancy test from a dollar store.
Cashier: Oh, it works. Trust me.

Montgomery, Alabama

Overheard by: not pregnant

Posted on February 15, 2010
Alabama, Customers, Employees, Money, Pregnancy

Coupons Are Just What the Government Uses to Distract You from the Aliens

Barista: That will be $9.74, please.
Customer: I have a coupon.
Barista, singing as she rings up new total: Lies, lies, lies.

Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Trouble

Posted on January 13, 2010
Baristas, Customers, Lies, Massachusetts, Money, Singing

The Most Exciting Thing That's Happened in Tukwila, Washington in Years

Man on cell in line at bank, clearly agitated: After what happened last time, you expect me to do that? (pause) What? I can't work with that! (dead silence, then yelling) Look, you motherfucker… I know what the goddamn price of heroin is, and that's not it! (runs away from bank, gets on his 745 BMW)
Customer in line: Did he just say what I think he said?
Teller: I totally heard “heroin.”

Tukwila, Washington

Posted on December 31, 2009
Customers, Drugs, Employees, Guys, Insults, Money, On the phone, Washington

Counting the Nuts, Of Course

Young ice cream customer: I'm going to get a large sundae.
Competitive young ice cream customer: Oh, yeah? I once had a sundae that was so big it was…it was… (thinks about it) up to the top of Jesus!

Dairy Queen
Victoria
Canadia

Overheard by: bemused in Dairy Queen

Posted on May 30, 2009
Canadia, Compare and contrast, Customers, Default, Food, Jesus, Kids, Offers and requests, Questions

…And Scuttling Away, Like a Hermit Crab.

Female shopper, surveying bathing suits: The crotch in this looks a little, uh…narrow. Tiny, actually. I feel like it doesn't provide full coverage.
Sales girl: I know. It's sort of the style now, though.
Female shopper: What do you mean, “style”? My labia showing?
Other shopper, walking up: Yeah, I agree. I don't want my vagina suddenly falling out at the beach.

American Apparel, Capitol Hill
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Celessa

Posted on April 1, 2009
Clothes, Compare and contrast, Customers, Default, Employees, Fashion, Feelings, Girls, Questions, Stores, Vagina, Washington, Words

Customers