Middle-aged birthday girl to office who threw her a party she specifically asked not to have: I like my birthday, it's just that I prefer to spend it with close friends… and people.
Washington, DC
Middle-aged birthday girl to office who threw her a party she specifically asked not to have: I like my birthday, it's just that I prefer to spend it with close friends… and people.
Washington, DC
Coworker #1 to 20-something coworker: I will boss you. I'm old enough to be your mother, and I will boss you.
Coworker #2, joining in: And I'm old enough to be your grandmother.
Coworker #1: And we will box your ears together.
(a few minutes later)
Coworker #1: Someday you're going to get married, so you might as well get used to being bossed around.
West Lafayette, Indiana
Overheard by: Rachel S.
Broker #1: Why is she laughing?
Broker #2: She already told you — she thinks it’s funny to buy gag candy and make everyone in the office fart.
Broker #1 laughs.
Broker #2: I mean, she’s so young. We all want to kill the other people in the office and she just wants to make them fart.
Broker #1: Look at her, she’s still laughing.
Broker #2: Ah, youth. All they do is giggle.
399 Park Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: LH
Employee #1: Oh my, that Rue McClanahan did not age well.
Employee #2: But Betty White kept it. Good for her.
Brea, California
Overheard by: rehey
Coworker: Today is my great-grandmother's 100th birthday, and we are going to bury her tomorrow.
Seattle, Washington
Old professor: My computer is so old! At least three people had it before me. Everything I write gets attributed to some secretary who left years ago. (pause) Maybe it's not a bad thing, considering the quality of what I write…
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: the IT guy
Coworker: I told her she's a bitch. She's 8. I said “it's okay that you're a bitch. I'm a bitch. Your mom is a bitch.”
Jersey City, New Jersey
Sales guy: When I was in Princeton [NJ], I worked out every day and I still gained 7 pounds.
Engineer: I gained seven pounds and I didn’t work out at all.
Sales guy: That’s why you’re an engineer!
350 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Male office worker to another: Dude, you smell like my grandma… And my grandma smells delicious!
Des Moines, Iowa
Crazy office lady in middle of rant: Did you laugh during Watergate?
20-something intern: Dude, I was a sperm during Watergate.
Washington, DC
