Director: I don’t think that will cut the mustard.
Manager: You mean “pass muster”?
Director: No, it’s “cut the mustard!”
Manager: I think you’re trying to say you cut the cheese.
8001 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, Calif.
Overheard by: Pffft
Director: I don’t think that will cut the mustard.
Manager: You mean “pass muster”?
Director: No, it’s “cut the mustard!”
Manager: I think you’re trying to say you cut the cheese.
8001 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, Calif.
Overheard by: Pffft
Cube rat #1: You’ve got to be shitting me… My grandma is trying to add me on MySpace.
Cube rat #2: That’s sort of sweet.
Cube rat #1: I’m her second friend. I didn’t know she knew what a computer was…
Cube rat #2: Dude, pop her comment cherry!
1932 Wildcat Canyon Road
San Diego, California
Worker bee: No, he was there. My sister and I came home from school and found her on the floor covered with ketchup, and you know what? Rosanne Barr’s mother did the same thing!
25500 Hawthorne Boulevard
Torrance, California
Overheard by: Robb Banks
Office girl: So, are you psyching yourself up to play the show tonight?
Office guy: Um, if by ‘psyching’ you mean ‘writing code,’ then yes, I am.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Naomi
Model #1: I want to put babies in you.
Model #2: You want to impregnate me?
Model #1: No, I want to slice you open and shove babies in you.
Model #2: That's sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me.
Adult Film Company
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: fetishgirl
Suit, about lady smoking crack on stoop: Isn’t she a little dressed up for a crackwhore?
3008 Lincoln Boulevard
Santa Monica, California
Overheard by: Not smoking any
Female co-worker: Yeah, these bruises on my legs? I wish I could say they were from S&M. Actually, I was just drunkenly stumbling around.
33 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: McN
Supervisor: Don’t worry, [the new procedure] is not that confusing.
Employee: I’m not confused, I always look like this.
202 C Street
San Diego, California
Overheard by: Emery Ann Harris
Office dweller #1: What is a civil servant?
Office dweller #2: Like someone that serves you in your house, like a butler.
Office dweller #1: Oh, I thought it was like a post office worker or something.
Office dweller #2: Nope, pretty sure it's a butler.
Cube world, San Diego
Overheard by: Tired of the nonsense
Photo assistant: Can I have your camera again? I think Sylvia just put mustard on her log.
Culver City, California
Overheard by: LaLa Land
