# Very stupid overheard conversations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858 "2020-11-30T21:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/381 "2021-03-24T13:24:12Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Her: I need a room! > Me: I’m sorry; we’re sold out. > Her: No, you don’t understand! I’ll take anything! There’s a stable out back… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/382 "2021-03-24T13:38:32Z")
@kitap, there’s a place on the internet for you: [https://notalwaysright.com/](https://notalwaysright.com/) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/383 "2021-03-24T13:49:58Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > kitap, there’s a place on the internet for you: [https://notalwaysright.com/](https://notalwaysright.com/) I don’t feel.comfortable posting them there. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/384 "2021-03-24T13:51:01Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > Her: I need a room! > > > > > Me: I’m sorry; we’re sold out. > > > Her: No, you don’t understand! I’ll take anything! > > There’s a stable out back… “Ooh, that’ll fit in perfectly with my martyr complex!” ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/385 "2021-03-24T15:03:07Z")
A couple of years ago we spent a few days visiting friends in a suburb of Boise. When we checked into our hotel, we were behind some jackass who started ranting to the clerk about how “all the Californians are moving up here and ruining everything.” The clerk responded with one simple sentence: “I’m from California.” To which my wife piped up with “well, we are too! What part?” Jackass finished his check-in in silence. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/386 "2021-03-24T22:56:18Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > Her: I need a room! > > > > > Me: I’m sorry; we’re sold out. > > > Her: No, you don’t understand! I’ll take anything! > > There’s a stable out back… Is there a manger for the baby? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/387 "2021-03-25T02:03:19Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Is there a manger for the baby?  Did she demand to see the manger? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/388 "2021-03-25T04:31:59Z")
Excellent. Though now I’m picturing the mother of Jesus as a dyslexic Karen… ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/389 "2021-03-25T05:50:15Z")
…Lies away at night wondering if there really is a dog in the manger… ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/390 "2021-03-25T22:25:34Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Her: What about your Presidential Suite? > Me: Presidential Suite? We don’t have one. > Her: Yes!! Every hotel does. Her line is straight out of a book called IIRC, “Swimming With Sharks” about how to be rich or something. I read it a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/391 "2021-03-25T23:21:30Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > Her: What about your Presidential Suite? > > > > > Me: Presidential Suite? We don’t have one. > > > Her: Yes!! Every hotel does. > > Her line is straight out of a book called IIRC, “Swimming With Sharks” about how to be rich or something. I read it a long time ago I think it’s someone thinking the old joke is a true story: Clerk: “I’m sorry sir, but we have no rooms.” Customer: “Tell me something. If President Coolidge walked in and asked for a room, would you have a room for him?” Clerk: “The President? Well…yes, we’d find a room for him.” Customer: “OK, then I’ll take his room. I have it on good authority he’s not coming tonight.” ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/392 "2021-03-26T00:10:52Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > Her: What about your Presidential Suite? > > Me: Presidential Suite? We don’t have one. > > Her: Yes!! Every hotel does. > > Her line is straight out of a book called IIRC, “Swimming With Sharks” about how to be rich or something. I read it a long time ago. Lots of people think, since we’re a resort, that we have one. Nope. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/393 "2021-03-26T07:51:03Z")
So he stole the joke! > **[Amazon.com: Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage,...](https://www.amazon.com/Sharks-Without-Being-Eaten-Alive/dp/006074281X)** > > Amazon.com: Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition (Collins Business Essentials): 9780060742812: Mackay, Harvey B: Books This is the book and lots of advice in it was silly, but some was ok. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/394 "2021-03-27T17:46:21Z")
You are a resort hotel? Then you must have a room of last resort! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/395 "2021-03-27T17:51:51Z")
We do. But the previous Karen took that one just 5 minutes before you got here. Neener neener! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/396 "2021-03-27T18:09:41Z")
Thankfully the worst hotel customer I ran across (as far as the employees go. there have been plenty of generically-loud-and-obnoxious ones), was when I was behind someone checking in to a Hampton Inn somewhere in red rock country Utah, who got into a 10 minute long argument with the clerk that even though the hotel was fully booked, (and at least he _did_ have reservations, as did I) that he should be able to park his RV-size pickup-and-trailer taking up several parking spots, and proceeded to throw around that he should get special treatment because he’s a Hitlon Diamond member. Eventually they came to an understanding that he might be called on to make room if other guests can’t park. Speaking of which, the last time I stayed at a Hampton I ran into the same issue, since it was packed with many semis taking up several spots each, and unlike a lot of the time with hotels, they hadn’t come to an agreement with the mall right next to them about parking in each others’ spots. Thankfully I managed to wedge myself one spot behind one of the sideways-parked semis and, also thankfully, did not awake to a damaged car or cries of consternation from a jammed trucker. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/397 "2021-03-27T19:38:41Z")
That reminded me of the time I got stuck behind a guy who got in a 10 minute argument with the clerk because he insisted that they should put him in an extra special room for the price of a standard room, because he stayed there a lot. Although I can’t help but think that that if he really stayed there as much as he claimed he would have been a member of the hotel’s rewards program, which likely would have gotten him the upgrade he wanted. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/398 "2021-03-27T21:19:15Z")
Some of the rewards programs are great - Wyndham Rewards, for example - but people find it easier just to berate the front desk. We’re not really people, after all. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/399 "2021-04-04T17:25:31Z")
Got a new one for ya! We were waiting to go into Texas Roadhouse for lunch and there were 2 men ahead of us in line - obviously not together. One turns to the other and declares that he heard on the news that we’d be required to wear masks at least until the next election because mail-in ballots will no longer be allowed. So 4 more years of masks. I needed a mask to covered my 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/400 "2021-04-04T23:09:06Z")
Walking down my street today; Young person dressed in a two piece matching outfit with bold vibrant flowers. Overhead as I passed: “And so that’s why we always traditionally have a Jesus Pinata. After all, that’s the reason for the season!” That’s all I heard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858.md?page=21)