Retail Workers of Reddit, What's the oddest conversation you've "overhead" or listened to?

Well...

If I could expand your question to include just "oddest conversations overheard in retail...", seeing that I was actually the customer...

And if I could also expand your question to just "heard" instead of "overheard", since I was the one being spoken to...

(I know I'm really stretching things here! Sorry!)

Then ya:

Essentially, I once walked into a Subway restaurant and the guy behind the counter was acting kinda loopy, and then all of a sudden he volunteered:

"Sorry if I seem out of it, but I just had a giant cyst removed from my @ ss crack."

I laughed thinking he was joking--thinking, ok, that's an odd joke for an employee to make, but I'm good with it since it was funny!--but then he actually started describing, in detail, the medical procedure, ending with explaining how his boss forced him to still come into work that day at Subway--and to work the shift alone!

Anyways, so I wished him good luck, and hoped that his @ ss crack would heal soon, and just as I was finishing up paying, a female customer walked in. As I then turned to walk out the store, I kid you not, he literally turned to her and said:

"Sorry miss if I seem a bit strange, but I just had a giant cyst removed from my @ ss crack."

The moment I was out of view of the Subway store windows, I immediately doubled over in a long fit of uncontrollable laughter, for a good minute. People at the mini-mall probably thought I was nuts!

Even later, after driving away in my car, I kept bursting out laughing a few times at the image of him turning to that lady and repeating the same story about his @ ss crack surgery.

But ya, the poor guy was forced to work by his boss, while still obviously under the rather strong influence of anesthetics unfortunately.

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