CCA #1: There are so many people here who are pregnant!
CCA #2: Must be something in the water.
CCA #1: Yeah, seems like.
Male supervisor: Man, I hope I don’t get pregnant.
2 Charlotte Street
Sackville, New Brunswick
Canadia
Overheard by: Mel
CCA #1: There are so many people here who are pregnant!
CCA #2: Must be something in the water.
CCA #1: Yeah, seems like.
Male supervisor: Man, I hope I don’t get pregnant.
2 Charlotte Street
Sackville, New Brunswick
Canadia
Overheard by: Mel
Peon #1: Did you hear they’re thinking about banning all gel-enhanced bras on airplanes?
Peon #2: Women wear gel in their bras?
Peon #1: It’s like padding, but gel, which gives it a more natural enhancement and feel.
Peon #2: That’s false advertising!
Nova Scotia
Canadia
Editor: I really like Ethiopian food.
Publisher: Melanie* gained 10 pounds when she was in Africa.
Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia
Male worker on phone: What? Was it my fault? I’m sorry, I said the wrong thing… So she’s still in heat?
11th Avenue
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Needs a new desk soon
Employee #1: Alright, so I could say, ‘One thousand, one hundred twenty-five — the average number of apples on a tree.’
Employee #2: Hey, wait, no — that’s not right. It’s too many.
Employee #1: Well, can you prove it? You would have to count every apple on every tree in the world.
Employee #2: No, I’d just count out of a hundred apple trees and get an average from that.
Employee #1: But that’d be an incomplete average, and I said ‘every tree,’ so you’d have to count, like, pine trees and…
Employee #2: There are no apples on pine trees!
Mapleview Drive
Barrie, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: fellow bewildered worker-bee
Manager #1: I don’t understand why they didn’t process these taxes… Hey, do you ever find your fingers swell and contract, like, every day? A lot?
Manager #2: No.
277 Front Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
CEO discussing a potential partner: I think they’re more pregnant with us than they’d care to admit.
Waterloo, Ontario
Canadia
Female student #1: I dunno — maybe I should give up drinking.
Female student #2: That’s never a good idea.
Female student #1: It’s just that I’m older, y’know? The drinking scene is so played…
Male student, joining them minutes later: So, what are you guys doing this weekend?
Female student #1: Getting fucking hammered.
Female student #2: What happened to giving up drinking?
Female student #1: Oh, please, that was so two minutes ago.
University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: the iPod was just a front
IT guy #1: Yeah, it’s my grandmother’s one hundredth birthday next March.
IT guy #2: Wow, really?
IT guy #1: Yup. I’m going to send her a strip-o-gram.
7th street and 7th Avenue
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia
Salesman on phone: Yes, I’m calling to speak to Stan*.
Guy answering phone: One moment, I’ll see if he’s in the office. [Muffled] Stan, there’s someone on the phone for you. What should I tell them?
Stan: No, tell them I’m not here.
Guy answering phone, to salesman: I’m sorry, sir, he must have stepped out. Hhe’s not in the shop.
Salesman: Are you kidding? I could hear you yell, ‘Stan, there’s someone on the phone for you,’ and then he yelled back, ‘Tell them I’m not here…’
Guy answering phone: Oh, sorry… Yeah, I should have muted it. Yeah, he’s actually in the shower right now and can’t get to the phone.
Salesman: … I’ll call back later.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Andrew
