Woman to boss: You should absolutely take your daughter to see To Kill a Mockingbird. Unless, of course, you’re worried about rape.
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Woman to boss: You should absolutely take your daughter to see To Kill a Mockingbird. Unless, of course, you’re worried about rape.
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Employee: Everything about my life sucks right now! I need to go home, and I need to have a shower, and I need to get laid by someone who knows what he’s doing for once, and then I need to go to bed.
Sackville
New Brunswick
Canadia
Overheard by: Mel
Service manager: We are not here to motivate employees. We are here to make them do their jobs.
Mavis Road
Mississauga, Ontario
Canadia
Colleague, about her cat: Ever since I got those balloons delivered to my house on my birthday, she’s really been into rubber.
Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Chick on cell: So, I’m clearing room in the back for more stock, and those fuckers have a case of beer back there…
Mall
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canadia
Overheard by: Christmas shopper wanted to know what store she works at…
Student to another, after grabbing cookie from unattended table: What?! They left them out! That’s like leaving food out and not expecting the rats to come!
University
Prince George, British Columbia
Canadia
Teacher: That’s an interesting tattoo, Jacob*!
Student #1: Thanks.
Teacher: Are you like the tattooed man from The Great Gatsby?
Student #2, after long pause: Yo, we don’t read!
High school
Whitby, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: freshman whisperer
Blonde salesgirl on phone with IT: My computer is not working.
IT guy: Did you plug everything in right?
Blonde salesgirl: Yes! Of course! The light is on, but nothing’s happening. [IT guy goes to her office, bends over, presses power button and walks out.] But the light was on!
IT guy: That’s your screen. The computer is the big box on the floor.
Office, Meilleur Street
Montreal
Canadia
Overheard by: ID-10-T
Peon #1, talking about proposed ad: Show the guys driving home too quickly and then getting decapitated because they’re driving their car too fast. That’s entertainment.
Peon #2: That’s not good. I’m thinking that’s not selling sandwiches.
Toronto
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: one smelly idiot
Guy: I always say, “To each his own.”
Girl: But what about Hitler? Would you say that about Hitler?
Guy: Well, if Hitler’s happy doing what he’s doing…
2375 Main Mall, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canadia
