No, But I'd Love a Stranger Telling Me How to Live My Life

Impossibly cheerful Australian: I'd like two scoops of coffee coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz, please!
Alarmed counter guy: Uh, do you need it?

Ben & Jerry's
Berkeley, California

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on June 8, 2017
California, Default, Employees, Foreigners, Guys, Offers and requests, Questions, Restaurants, Weirdness

I'm Starting to Regret Playing the Trumpet

High CVS employee: Yeah, we went to museums and shit. Took pictures with naked men… and naked women. I mean, that's what you do when you're in chorus.

Garwood, New Jersey

Posted on May 1, 2017
Employees, Memory lane, New Jersey, Sexuality

Even Nymphs and Satyrs Need a Day Off, Sir

Man wearing cargo pants, on day before Easter: So what's this foolishness about you guys being closed tomorrow?
YMCA staff member: Apparently, we're celebrating Easter.
Man wearing cargo pants: But you guys are pagan!

Naperville, Illinois

Overheard by: Lauren

Posted on February 2, 2017
Default, Employees, Guys, Holidays, Illinois, Questions, Religion

Just Show Me Two Forms Of ID and a Picture Of Your Coronary Arteries

Dramatic teenage girl: Um, we would like an Awesome Blossom, extra awesome.
Unhappy waitress: We don't serve that anymore.
Dramatic teenage girl: Yes, you do. Don't lie to me, lady.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Posted on January 5, 2017
Default, Employees, Food, Girls, Lies, Louisiana, Names, Offers and requests, Teens

So We Can Throw Stones, or What?

Slightly confused woman to tour guide of a greenhouse: So, why did they put all of these windows in here?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/353858063/so-someone-would-ask-questions.html

Overheard by: um?

Posted on December 25, 2016
Employees, Overheard in Minneapolis, Questions, Stupidity, Women

And We Can’t Help You

Frazzled female customer: Oh, you have to change my last name on the account, too. I got divorced…
Sales assistant: Congratulations!

Verizon Wireless
Charlotte, North Carolina

Overheard by: i just want my phone upgrade

Posted on April 11, 2016
Customers, Employees, North Carolina, Stupidity

Let Your Mother, God Bless Her, Wear the Army Boots

Teen girl holding shoe: Can I get this in a…
Ghetto shoe salesman: Dayummm girl, that's an ugly shoe!
Teen girl: Em… Aren't you supposed to be selling this to me?
Ghetto shoe salesman: Yeah, but see, y'alls not a ugly person, I can't let y'all buy an ugly shoe.
Teen girl: Thank you?

Los Angeles, California

Posted on March 30, 2016
Beauty, California, Employees, Questions, Shoes, Shopping, Teens

We Take It Ourselves

Meth user: Am I too late to get my methadone?
Young pharmacist: Yes. After five p.m. we dump all the methadone down the drain.
Meth user, very nervous: Are you kidding?!
Young pharmacist, laughing: Yes, I am.

Fort Erie, Ontario
Canadia

Posted on March 10, 2016
Canadia, Comebacks, Default, Druggies, Drugs, Employees, Time Management

And If You Like Him, Like, More Than a Friend

Employee to customer: Excuse me, my boss wants to know if you’re a transvestite.

http://overheardinthevalley.blogspot.com/2007/04/its-mixed-up-muddled-up-shook-up-world.html

Posted on March 4, 2016
Employees, Gender issues, Overheard in the Valley

Knitted Her Own Wings

Female flight attendant on cell: She was the ugliest woman I had ever seen in my life! But I swear she was my guardian angel. (sighs)

Seatac airport
Seattle, Washington

Posted on January 9, 2016
Airports & flights, Compare and contrast, Default, Employees, Girls, Religion, Washington, Words

Employees