School director to parent considering enrolling child: Our classes are full. We have a waiting list.
Parent: [Blank look.]School director: You are Chinese?
Parent: No, Korean.
School director: But you speak Chinese.
Parent: No, Korean.
School director: Well, that’s the same thing, right?
Irving, Texas
Engineer to secretary: I don't want to be accused of misplacing nine years of your life!
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: 812
Admin: Well, it's not every day that you see a pig being chased by a monkey.
Clerkenwell Road
London
England
Overheard by: Murray
Attorney on phone with secretary: Hello. (pause) A package? Who's it from? He brought it by hand? Can you open it for me? Just want to make sure it isn't a bomb. (pause) What? No, not like that, I mean a legal bomb. Like detrimental paperwork.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Office Manager
Secretary, getting off business phone call: I don't have time to work with all of this… I need to be planning my Easter dinner.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: work always gets in the way
Office admin: I'm no one's monkey! My dances are spontaneous!
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: snapszen
Assistant: Can you stick around? I need supervision for this.
Manager: Really? I'd rather have super hearing than super vision. (pause) Oh, you meant “supervision,” didn't you?
Assistant: Do you think someone else could help me with this?
Baltimore, Maryland
Manager: I've got number one done and now I've just got to work on number two. Number two is a bit trickier, though, so it's going to be at least another 15/20 minutes.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Secretary: Now the plant's by me, I can make sure none of you are over-watering it!
Random office peon: Or urinating in it when no-one's looking.
Wellington
New Zealand
Overheard by: pretty sure that happened
Admin to another: I just got peed on by a radioactive cat, hold on.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Andy
