Worker at desk, startled when colleague walks by: Oh! You scared me! I thought you were a rubber band!
Bridge Street
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: JRH
Worker at desk, startled when colleague walks by: Oh! You scared me! I thought you were a rubber band!
Bridge Street
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: JRH
Puzzled Irish girl: Look at that! Magnetic bookmarks! What a stupid idea!
Puzzled boyfriend: Why?
Puzzled Irish girl: Well, where are you ever going to find a metal book?
Puzzled boyfriend: Hmm, yeah, you’re right.
Perth, Australia
Overheard by: Gina
Young receptionist: I keep finding cat scratches all over me!
Female accounts: Do you even have a cat?
Young receptionist: Yeah, I had to wash him.
Female accounts: Why in the hell would you wash a cat, they're self-cleaning!
Croydon Road
Australia
Colleague: How long do you think you'll be?
Female colleague: We've just gotta pick up our balls and then we'll come back.
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: confused but amused
Woman in lift, noticing man cleaning doors: I can’t believe they clean a fucking elevator shaft, but it takes them a week to clean dried-up vomit in the foyer!
Queen Street
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: Admin
Girl #1: What country is Paul* from?
Girl #2: He’s Albanian. [Girl #1 is silent.] You know… Albania?
Girl #1: Isn’t that where all the albinos come from? I didn’t know Paul was albino!
Copperfield College
Melbourne
Australia
Boss on cell: It's sort of like that throat-clearing noise favored by the Germans, you know?
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: Ahem
Customer: Can you direct me to the problems office please?
Receptionist: The problems office? I’ve never heard of them.
Customer: Oh… Maybe they closed down…
Receptionist: What kind of problems did they solve?
Customer: Any kind of problems!
Receptionist: Am I able to help?
Customer: Nah…I’ll just come back another time.
Gold Coast
Australia
Overheard by: Cam
