Boss: Let’s get things set up. Let’s move the mouse.

Bethesda, Maryland

Grunt #1: Is that a wine bottle in the front seat of your car?
Grunt #2: Yes. I like to drink on my way to work.

Owings Mills, Maryland

Overheard by: widget

Library supervisor: Can you hand me those staplers? I’ve gotta take them back to those who dwell in the rear.

Library
Columbia, South Carolina

Office chick: How was your weekend?
Office guy: I got a sunburn! Look, my skin is flaking off! [Rubs his arm.]Office chick: Stop! You’re flaking into my coffee!

San Antonio, Texas

IT help desk: Mine are nothing like yours. Yours get so fluffy when I put them in my mouth.

500 Howard Street
San Francisco, California

Girl answering phone: Hi.
Guy on speaker: Hey… What are you doing?
Girl: Nothing.
Guy: Don’t e-mail me today.
Girl: Why?
Guy: They are using my computer for a presentation.
Girl: Oh, okay.
Guy: I don’t need them seeing ‘Eff you!’
Girl: Haha, I never put that in the subject line.
Guy: Right… Or ‘I eff-ing hate you… And I’m not joking.’
Girl: Hahaha, I haven’t said that in so long!
Guy: You texted that to me last night.
Girl: Oh. Hahaha. No, I said, ‘You better be dead… And I’m not even joking!’

Law office, Highway 10 and 403
Ontario
Canadia

Suit: When Barry* is out, who should get this report?
Boss: Give it to Barry — he’s in.
Suit: When I asked Susan* I thought she said he wasn’t working today.
Boss: She’s absolutely right. But he is here today.

2nd Street
Jersey City, New Jersey

Overheard by: Hobo Whisperer

Salesman: We’re looking for your shorts!

8531 East Marginal Way South
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Lowly Clerk

Lieutenant: I can’t wait to get my hands on your package and give it a good scrubbing.

Oak Harbor, Washington

Male coworker: All I hear is, ‘Yap, yap, yap, I’m cold, yap, yap, yap, I’m a woman.

Gainesville, Florida

Overheard by: Erin