Event planner: Don’t you think we should have background music?
Manager: That would be too expensive.
Event planner: What about just one person playing a harp?
Manager: Do you know someone?
Event planner: Yeah. I know a harpoonist.
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Tim
Boss, singing: Blue and yellow! Yellow and blue! Blueeee! Yelloooooow!
Employee: Here she goes again.
Reston, Virginia
Overheard by: Carly
Confused coworker on phone: My day? I just found out that the lead singer of Rush isn’t a girl.
Portland, Oregon
Employee: I have “Holly Jolly Christmas” in my head, and it’s all the bathroom’s fault.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: Meghan
Coworker: Bon jovi’s on American Idol?! Good god, this calls for a new pack of batteries and the tv on in the bedroom!
Portland, Oregon
Coworker: On a scale of one to Chris Brown, how angry are you?
Houston, Texas
Queer (in tears): What you did hurt me, it hurt me to the core!
Fag hag: What are you talking about?
Queer: That was my song, I sing that song – you stole it from me!
Fag hag: It’s a song, it’s karaoke…fucking get over it!
Queer (still in tears): You don’t understand, it’s my song!
Brooklyn, New York
Manager: Where’s Mike Love’s file? I need Love by 9 o’clock!
Richmond, Virginia
New office girl: Oh! You just had to go and print on the noisy tractor-feed printer. Now I can’t hear my song!
(printer stops)
Old office girl #2: Is that…?
Old office girl #3: The Titanic Song?
Old office girl #2: Are you serious?
Old office girl #3: THIS is your song?
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tech guy to intern: If you take that network diagram, cut and paste it into word, save it as an mp3 and play it back, it will be circus music.
Solana Beach, California
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist