Overheard in the Burbs

Fun conversations, secrets, confessions. Want to know what people are saying and thinking in the suburbs? Listen.
Customer: This is 50% off?
Sales Clerk: Yes.
Customer: Of what?
Sales Clerk: The original price.
Customer: Last month it was the same price, before you put up the sale sign.
Sales Clerk: No, the original price, before the other price.
-- Overheard in: Gift Store, Evanston ILL --
Piano Mover: It won't fit through the door.
Woman: You said you could move a baby grand.
Piano: It isn't a baby grand.
Woman: It is. I bought a baby grand.
Piano Mover: If you did, it grew, it's now a teenager.
-- Overheard in: Home, Redbank NJ --
contributed by jenniferL on 04/03/2012 | |
Kid: How come there's coins in the fountain?
Mom: People throw them in.
Kid: That's stupid.
Mom: It's tradition...something people have done before.
Kid: What if it was stupid before?
Mom: It's not...
Kid: Can I throw some coins in?
Mom: No.
Kid: Why?
Mom: (pauses) It's stupid. (mom smiles)
-- Overheard in: Fountain S.Hills Mall, NJ --