Admin: Do you need help with anything?
Engineer: Nobody ever asks that here. What are you up to?
Anchorage, Alaska
Overheard by: Overworked
Admin: Do you need help with anything?
Engineer: Nobody ever asks that here. What are you up to?
Anchorage, Alaska
Overheard by: Overworked
Bar patron #1: You gonna have another drink?
Bar patron #2: No, I gotta get home before mid-life.
36th Avenue and Arctic Boulevard
Anchorage, Alaska
Overheard by: thinking it was already too late
Boss: We won’t do it wrong. We’ll just do it a different way that won’t be right.
Anchorage, Alaska
Overheard by: Mark
Lady peon: I really want to fuck him, but I can’t. I’m trying to be monogamous in my non-relationship relationship.
Club restroom
Anchorage, Alaska
Employee: Nice skirt, boss!
Boss: I'm wearing pants.
Anchorage, Alaska
Mechanic #1: I climbed your tree last night.
Mechanic #2: You climbed my tree?
Mechanic #1: Don't worry about it.
Alaska
Cube rat #1: Oh! (inhales deeply) I love that smell! Do you smell it?
Cube rat #2: No. What smell?
Cube rat #1: Skunk! I love the smell of skunk!
Cube rat #2: It is the middle of winter…there aren't any skunks this time of year.
Cube rat #1: You know, you're right. Hmmmm, I wonder…
Cube rat #2: I just farted.
Cube rat #1: Are you kidding me? You mean I have been standing here enjoying your fart?
Cube rat #2: Um… (pause) Yeah, guess so!
Fairbanks, Alaska
Secretary #1, spreading butter on bread: Butter is evil! If Satan could ejaculate, it would be butter!
Secretary #2, also spreading butter: If that were the case, I might actually ask to give him a blow job!
Fairbanks, Alaska
Overheard by: Not Me!!
Technician loudly on cell, working in server room: Yeah! His name's “golden.” (pause) You know, like “golden shower.”
Anchorage, Alaska
Father, trying to get his teenage daughter excited about reading The Odyssey: It’s like a horror movie… for really, really old people.
Public Library
Anchorage, Alaska
Overheard by: not-so-old but I still like The Odyssey
