Colleague: I just ate a pen cap thinking it was a tootsie roll. Always look before putting stuff in your mouth.
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Overheard by: oh dear
Colleague: I just ate a pen cap thinking it was a tootsie roll. Always look before putting stuff in your mouth.
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Overheard by: oh dear
CSR #1, listening to “Pretty Woman”: I love this Elvis song.
CSR #2: This isn't an Elvis song!
CSR #1: Yes, it is.
CSR #2: Did you fall on your head?
CSR #1: I tore my mother's placenta.
Scarborough
Canadia
Overheard by: Cnote
Puzzled IT worker holding tortilla in one hand and piece of raw cod in the other: So what you're saying is that this isn't sushi?
Coworker: It's not sushi.
IT worker: But it's raw fish!
Coworker: Well, sushi is a special kind of way of preparing it. That's just a piece of cod you bought from the fishmongers, wrapped in a tortilla.
IT worker: So… I shouldn't eat it?
Coworker: No… This is like the jam incident, isn't it?
IT worker: Fuck you! Jam is healthy–there's bloody fruit in it!
Coworker: And you wonder why you're single…
Leamington Spa
England
Overheard by: Bleep
Claims supervisor to claims processor: You will need to send out a denial form on this one. The renter's policy does not cover contraction of sexually transmitted diseases while visiting the apartment.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: GirlFriday
VP of development in grant meeting: Shooting the bird is not a process.
Cedar Street
Austin, Texas
Rowdy male coworker: So the third time I went to jail, I was outside of this bank…
Train station
Bronxville, New York
Overheard by: Beth Ann
Coworker on phone: My cell phone stopped working, it fell into the soup I had for lunch. What should I do?
Seattle, Washington
Coworker, hanging up phone: My daughter swallowed a Lego, I gotta go.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: The_SuperVixen
Guy in cubicle: I seemed to have dropped my camera in the toilet.
Baltimore, Maryland
Female coworker, almost colliding into male: Oops! I just come like a hurricane!
Adelaide
Australia
