Doorman: Where is the building you’re looking for?
Lady: It’s on 40th.
Doorman: 40th and what?
Lady: I’m almost positive they said between Sixth and Avenue of the Americas.
–40th between 5th & 6th
Overheard by: conor hogan
Archive for the ‘Clerks’ Category
Well, First Of All, That’s Your Credit Card…
White girl to subway clerk: I just swiped my card and it is saying “insignificant fare”.
Subway clerk, smiling: It is saying that?
White girl: Is “insignificant” even a word?
–Clark Street
…By Glazing Over the Truth.
Old lady covered in baby powder: Give me six donuts.
Donuts clerk: Okay, which ones?
Old lady covered in baby powder: Six donuts.
Donuts clerk: These are all donuts… Which ones?
Old lady covered in baby powder: Six donuts.
Donuts clerk: Okay, I’ll just give you a selection of six. (starts putting random donuts in bag)
Old lady covered in baby powder: Six donuts, don’t trick me.
–Flatbush, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Save the Whales, Save the Whole Thing
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up
Salad guy: I have bleu cheese and goat cheese, too.
Customer: What’s bleu cheese?
Salad guy: It’s a sad cheese.
–Hale & Hearty Soup
Are You Fucking With Me, Ma’am?
Animated blonde salesgirl: If you get the apple pomegranate body butter…
Weary brunette: I only see the display.
Animated blonde salesgirl: We have more in the back. Okay, well, if you get two or more products from the bath line, like this and our shower gel, you get a free bathtub!
Weary brunette: Huh?
(animated blonde salesgirl points to a little plastic bathtub)
Weary brunette: That’s… tiny. Like, I love the scent but I’m afraid I don’t have any kittens or fetuses to bathe in that tiny tiny tub.
–Sephora, Times Square
Says the Woman Who Chooses to Live in Omaha?
Older tourist woman to NBC tour guide: So, we are going to see the rock at the top?
Guide: It’s called “the top of the rock.“
Woman: Well, that doesn’t make any sense?
–30 Rockefeller Plaza
Overheard by: Michael
Having Strangers Discipline Your Kids Is Mmm Mmm Good
Screaming child: I want a new hat!
Latino nanny: Calm down before I turn you into soup!
–Madison Ave & 81st St
Wasn’t That a Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Song?
Bodega guy to old Dominican guy: What’s up, sister?
Old Dominican guy: I got your sister swinging!
–Throop & Vernon
Overheard by: johnny
And That’s Why We Have the Rule
Little girl: Can I have a job here?
Clerk: How old are you?
Little girl: Nine.
Clerk: Well, you have to be at least 14 to work at the library.
Little girl: Oh, yeah? Well, you have a big head!
–Queens Library
Guess That Also Explains Why You’re So Fashionably Thin!
Woman with crew cut to salesman: Excuse me, my husband’s glow necklace is leaking–may I exchange it?
(glow necklace salesman hands her a new one)
Salesman: And that’s a lovely haircut you have!
Woman, not amused: I’m going through cancer.
–Prospect Park
