Animals

Coworker, trying to help another with computer problem: Can I just touch your mouse? Sometimes it helps me think.

Fall River, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Ben

Insurance adjuster: Some guy decides to go chasing buffalo through a field with his pickup and now I have to make a long drive.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Bank teller: I was working drive-through this morning and offered a customer a bone for her dog in the back seat.
Associate: I think it’s nice that we do that.
Bank teller: The customer said it wasn’t a dog, it was her mother.

801 West Big Beaver Road
Troy, Michigan

Loud American coworker in next cubicle: Are you a mammal?

University Research Centre
Sydney
Australia

Cubicle dweller #1: What better way to die, backpacking across Antarctica?
Cubicle dweller #2: I can see the headline now, “Man dies while being sodomized by a leopard seal.”

Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee

Receptionist on phone: He fell into some kind of sink hole, and when they pulled him out he had leeches all over his feet!

Palo Alto, California

Receptionist: What’s that?
Worker: It’s the Phoenix Project logo.
Receptionist: Why’s there a bird on it?
Manager #1: You have got to be kidding?
Receptionist: What?
Manager #2: Bird, Phoenix? Hello?
Receptionist: I don’t get it.
Clerk: Okay, the bird…it’s a phoenix.
Receptionist: Phoenix is a city.
Clerk: …Phoenix is, also, a mythological bird.
Receptionist: Named after the city?

10 Miles South of Battle Mountain
Battle Mountain, Nevada

Designer: Any cat lady with a sticker-printing machine… can make stamps.

Manhattan, New York

Manager: We’re all sharks. Remember, guys.
Employee: Huh? Sharks?
Manager: Yeah, we’re all like sharks. Sharks have to keep moving their whole life or they’ll die. They never stop moving. So keep moving, guys! We’re sharks!
Employee: So basically what you’re saying is that if we stop moving, you’ll kill us all?

208 Chain Lake Drive
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadia

Assistant: Did you know that dogs get breast cancer?
Supervisor: What?
Assistant: I used to work at a vet office, and they would bring in dogs with breast cancer!
Supervisor, after googling it: Yeah, I guess they do!
Assistant: Oh, really?! I made that up!
Supervisor: I'm done with you.

New York City, New York

Overheard by: Digitdy