HR manager, as phone rings during conversation: I don't know where my daughter is. That's a bit of a problem since she's only eight… I should take this call.
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: #1mom
HR manager, as phone rings during conversation: I don't know where my daughter is. That's a bit of a problem since she's only eight… I should take this call.
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: #1mom
Coworker: Okay, have a good weekend. I'm off to a sweet sixteen party. (pause) From Bloomsday to sweet sixteen: the sublime to the ridiculous.
Manhattan, New York
Employee #1: My stepdaughter won over $2000.
Employee #2: What's she gonna do with all that money? She should put it towards college!
Employee #1: She's 13 and a redneck. She ain't goin' to college. Plus, she's fine, so she just needs to find her a good lookin' redneck with lots of money, and she'll be set.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Radiologist, dictating: The patient is an 80-year-old woman with a history of constipation. The films of the patient's abdomen are non-diagnostic, because there is a child in the way. Repeat films should be obtained to determine if the child is actually in the patient's abdomen or lying on the image plate behind her.
Lakeville, Massachusetts
Old office lady #1, looking at People magazine: Matthew Broderick has gray hair!
Old office lady #2: Who?
Old office lady #1: Matthew Broderick… He was in the Karate Kid movies.
Des Moines, Iowa
Overheard by: B Fraz
20-something woman to 50-something coworker: If you didn't want to be so old, you shouldn't have been born so long ago.
Melbourne
Australia
Loan officer #1: Wouldn't a 55-and-over development have lower market value because your applicant pool is so small?
Loan officer #2: No way, there's a ton of old people.
Eastern Shore, Maryland
Female office worker to pregnant coworker: His mother said we should wait until we're older to have kids, but she's old. She's 40. I told her that we're 23 and 24. We're of child-bearing age. We're supposed to be having children.
Fleet Street
Baltimore, Maryland
40-something VP, about weather: What a great day–55 today!
Project manager: Wow! I would have never guessed–happy birthday!
Warwick, Maryland
Geek #1: It's really hard to find an adult Girl Scout costume.
Geek #2: I wonder why, I'm sure there are fat Girl Scouts. (pause) I'm not saying you're fat! I'm just saying you're old.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Had to run from the room.
