California

Male gay CSR to female straight CSR: The underwear I'm wearing right now is so cute I wish I could show it to you!

San Diego, California

Overheard by: Leigh

Production manager, loudly, to graphic artist nearby: Michael! You are just whipping it out today!

Van Nuys, California

Overheard by: Just walking on by

Borders customer: It's by… I don't know her name, but she's the new Poet Laureate.
Borders clerk: Her name is “Laureate”?
Borders customer, sighing: Never mind.

Sunnyvale, California

Employee #1: It's 5 O'clock somewhere!
Employee #2: It's 5 O'clock at my desk. What do you think this water in my bottle here is?

Glendale, California

Coworker to another: Hey, man, if you want to call 'em ramparts, you call 'em ramparts.

Pasadena, California

Cube dweller #1: Know what I was thinking?
Cube dweller #2, watching hottie walking by: Soft luscious hooters and long muscular legs?
Cube dweller #1: Umm… No. (turns to watch hottie) I should have been, but it was something else.

Woodland Hills, California

Overheard by: Gunboat

Read and Heed, Dear Reader

Make-up artist: I heard you broke your wiener.
Male performer: Damn it, who told you? You're the eighth person to ask me that this morning.
Make-up artist: Oh, Mike* told me.
Male performer: That guy!
Make-up artist: He's the wiener whisperer.

Adult Film Company
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: fetishgirl

Male coworker to female supervisor: Sorry about your son.
Female supervisor: He's a wimp!

San Diego, California

Overheard by: Neighbor with headphones on

Receptionist: I'm not so sure I want it now that I put it in my mouth.

San Francisco, California

Female worker, at a work-sponsored pizza party: My older brother picked on me all the time. Play-fighting, just rough-housing, you know. He is deceased, now.
Insensitive female worker: Because she killed him!

San Francisco, California