Animals

Customer service rep: Aaaaahhhhhhh!
Planner: What’s wrong??
Customer service rep: I just saw a mouse!
Planner: Um, yeah, so? That’s just George.
Customer service rep: What?
Planner: Sometimes George likes to come out and play.

Plainfield Pike, Rhode Island

Overheard by: Stuck in my cube

Boss: What are you doing?
Employee: Working.
Boss: Seriously?
Employee: Nah. I am actually watching video bulldogs riding on skateboards. Check it out!
Boss: [Walks away shaking head.]

7th Avenue
New York City, New York

Receptionist on phone: It was a male chicken, 12 inches tall. It was corn-fed in Iowa and its sign was Pisces… Yeah, bone in.

Constellation
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: Kaleb

Female workbee #1: *Dan takes this rubber cockroach and tosses it over into *Linda’s cubicle. She just freaks and goes running out of the building screaming at the top of her lungs.
Female workbee #2: Do you know if anyone ate her donut?

City Offices
Houston, Texas

Excited sales guy on cell: There’s nothing you could do to a pig that I don’t like.

Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Amazing Amanda

Worker #1: I think my fish is blind.
Worker #2: Seriously?
Worker #1: Yes, he can’t find his food.
Worker #2: Maybe he’s not hungry…
Worker #3, eavesdropping: Blind fish need homes too…

Anderson Street
Loma Linda, California

Office worker: So then he launches into this big spiel about how black dogs taste better than white dogs.

Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: matt

Event planner: Oh, damn, this is terrible news. I just lost a snack set-up. First the breakfast burritos and now this! What’s next… Anything but the Swedish fish!

West 23rd Street
New York City, New York

Cat owner #1: So I went to the doctor yesterday, I asked him what was causing this rash on my forearms, he says, “It’s your cat”!
Cat owner #2: My cat?

Rosewood Drive
Pleasanton, California

Overheard by: Jimmybob

Bank employee, accompanying exterminator: [Sings.] Spraying for bugs!
[She realizes she sang that out loud to a room full of customers.]Bank employee, under her breath: Oops. Just kidding, we don’t have bugs.

Tucson, Arizona

Overheard by: Ken