Animals

Boss, reading random facts to assistant: A turtle can breathe through its butt!
Assistant: I may not inhale, but I certainly exhale from there.

Coronado, California

Store manager: Someone smells like a hamster!
Startled employee: What?
Store manager, sniffing startled employee: It's you! You smell like a hamster!
Startled employee: I don't own a hamster.

Toy Store
Bridgewater, New Jersey

Overheard by: Startled Customer

Boss: This Chinese guy stroked my turtle.

Edmonton
Canadia

Boss: So I asked my vet if I should let him eat the placenta.
Worker: What the heck did my ears ever do to you?

McKinney, Texas

HR rep: I thought we killed the dinosaurs!

Toronto
Canadia

Supervisor to manager: You know I’m leaving work early today, right?
Manager: That’s right… For what, again?
Supervisor: I’m getting my cat shaved.
(pause)
Supervisor: My cat… like, our pet cat. A feline.

Ambassador East Hotel
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: laughing one cubicle over

Coworker on phone: It doesn't still smell like squirrel, does it?

Portland, Oregon

CEO: That would basically put me in the position of a shitting duck.

Calgary
Canadia

Redneck high school kid checking out campus: Guantanamo Bay? Is that one of the places the bugs attack in Starship Troopers?

UT Campus
Austin, Texas

Overheard by: Flabbergasted Longhorn

Developer: So we need to get those trees down before the rafters come back.
Underling: “Rafters”?
Developer: R-a-f-t-e-r-s. You know, like a hawk? They’re gonna nest in the trees if we don’t cut ’em down first.
Underling: Right. Raptors.

855 Capitolio Way
San Luis Obispo, California