Man smoking outside office door: What year is this anyway? It’s 2006, isn’t it?
Goswell Road
London
England
Overheard by: Ava
Man smoking outside office door: What year is this anyway? It’s 2006, isn’t it?
Goswell Road
London
England
Overheard by: Ava
Hick #1: Oh, Frost/Nixon. I wanted to see this.
Hick #2: What’s it about?
Hick #1: It’s about when Nixon gets assassinated.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Overheard by: I just work here
Coworker #1: The new shredder shreds CDs… Cool.
Coworker #2: Yeah! And it shreds DVDs, too!
Columbia, Maryland
Overheard by: it says moops
Female peon: I love eating a rare steak and then sopping up all the juice with some bread.
Male peon: You know what I like? To puncture a hole in a small animal that runs by my house and catch the blood like a fountain.
Female peon: Um, yeah, that would work, too.
4653 Cotton Gin Loop
Phoenix, Arizona
Overheard by: RebeccaB
Office drone: That guy is like a cross between a goldfish and a pimple. He doesn’t have much going on between his ears, he’s unsightly, and he never goes away as fast as you want him to.
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Male coworker #1: Well, we played with it enough, it’s not hanging out as much.
Male supervisor: Yeah, if you beat on it enough, eventually these things go in.
(uncomfortable silence)
Male supervisor: Do you think I could go see it?
Male coworker #2: Yeah, just make sure you don’t pull on it!
Richland, Washington
Overheard by: I think they were talking about a server…
Supervisor: Hey, we’re all here today… Let’s have a meeting!
Employee #1: About what?
Employee #2: American Idol!
Financial center
New York, New York
Overheard by: working hard
Receptionist on phone in earshot of a client: She said that she told her manager, ‘I hate my fucking job.’ I told her that it was completely inappropriate to say ‘fuck’ at work.
Austin, Texas
Mom, as toddler runs into doorway: Look out, Helen Keller!
E Hadley Road
Indiana
Overheard by: Amanda
Manager on phone: Making kids restaurant-friendly… Here’s a tip, hire a babysitter. The number one problem with the housing bust is that instead of moving out of my hip, edgy neighborhood when they want to start a family, couples can’t, so they breed in place, which totally inconveniences me.
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: iheartmaps
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