Overheard

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I stopped at the gas station after my eye appointment. While I was getting a drink, I overheard a conversation between a customer and a gas station employee that amused me.

Customer: How much are the hot dogs?
Employee: 2 for $2.22, see the sign there.
Customer: Yeah, but I don’t want two, I just want one.
Employee: But they’re 2 for $2.22
Customer: I only want one. How much is one?
Employee: I’m not sure. Probably half of $2.22.
Customer: How much is that?
Employee: I don’t know, I’m not working the register today.

Posted on 2011/04/21 at 10:24 am in Life | RSS feed | Respond | Trackback URL

5 Comments to “Overheard”

bethany actually
2011/04/21 at 10:46 am

Seriously?! Ha!

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- Jill Will Run
  2011/04/21 at 10:58 am
  
  Dead seriously! I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh or cry!
  
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Marci
2011/04/21 at 12:20 pm

Reminds of Chris Rock in the rib scene in “Im Gonna Git You, Sucka.”

Ya got change for a hundred?

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Tanya
2011/04/22 at 9:48 pm

Wow, that is sad although $2.22 – that is a pretty big number to be cutting in half…

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tearese
2011/05/19 at 4:26 pm

I remember once sitting in an art studio with another student my age, and an older person. On the radio, they were saying something about the NAACP. The other student asked me what it stood for, and I knew but couldn’t think of the exact wording because I was distracted by my painting, so I just said, “I don’t know,” so they’d leave me alone.
Then of course, the older person in the room was completely shocked by us and told the other student what it stood for. I was so mad at myself, because I knew they were now going to go home and share that story with everyone they knew, to illustrate how ignorant the next generation was. Plus, I always get mad when I do anything to make myself look dumb to other people.
But I do that with kids too…pretend I don’t know the answer to someth9ing because I don’t want to talk to them right now. We can hope that maybe the clerk was doing the same thing…? Or not.

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