Male coworker: Dugong! I wonder what dugongs taste like.
Female coworker: Hippos?
Male coworker: Except saltier.
Grahamstown
South Africa
Overheard by: EnvironmentalScientistsAreWeird
Male coworker: Dugong! I wonder what dugongs taste like.
Female coworker: Hippos?
Male coworker: Except saltier.
Grahamstown
South Africa
Overheard by: EnvironmentalScientistsAreWeird
Colleague to another who has been ill: Your doctor's sick note looks like it came from a vending machine.
Cape Town
South Africa
Associate #1: I've been planning to do that when I get a day off.
Associate #2: Ok… So when do you get off?
Law Firm
Johannesburg
South Africa
Overheard by: Luke Wolfson
Trainer: In America, when our kids don’t finish their meals we tell them that there are starving kids in Africa. What do you tell them?
Clients from Kenya: [Silence]
Cafeteria, Hazina Towers, 258 Monrovia Street
Nairobi, Kenya
Salesman to manager: One of my customers is looking for prices on a laptop.
Manager: Okay, what is he looking for?
Salesman: A laptop.
Manager: Yes, but what is he looking for? I can get him a piece of crap for next to nothing, or a real expensive one. What is he looking for? What specifications and size is he looking for, and what extras?
Salesman: Okay, I'll find out.
(three minutes later, after phoning customer)
Salesman: He is looking for one, the size of an adult male's hands placed next to each other.
Pretoria
South Africa
Annoying coworker on phone, loudly: Yes, just a wax. (pause) What's a Hollywood?? (pause, then softly) Oh, no, hang on… No, I don't think so.
Johannesburg
South Africa
Overheard by: Gael
Client staring at fish in tank: They are pretty when they swim around.
Hostess: Would you like to join them, sir?
Sandton
Johannesburg
South Africa
Customer: Do you have a bottle of coke?
Waitress: No.
Customer: What do you have?
Waitress: Coke.
Corper’s Lodge
Okobo, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
