Office lady, from cubicle: White! (pause) Did you like my answer when I said white? Sometimes it's purple.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Office lady, from cubicle: White! (pause) Did you like my answer when I said white? Sometimes it's purple.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Female coworker #1: If you hold it up to the light it looks blue.
Female coworker #2: Ohhh.
Female coworker #1: Actually, they both look blue.
Female coworker #2: It is blue!
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Office director to peon: Look what she's taking!
HR rep: I've decided to take your pink fly swatter!
Peon: Yay! Are you taking it home or to your new office?
HR rep: I think… home.
Old manager: What are you going to do with that ugly thing?
HR rep, grinning: Nothing work-related, I assure you!
New manager on first day: Wow. Huh!
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Overheard by: Peon
Male salesperson on phone to female customer: But I can't do that. I can give you a six-inch white one or an eight-inch brown one. I don't have an eight-inch white one!
Majestic Parkway
Bedford Heights, Ohio
Female: But there's like four or five on one arm!
Male: I know they're green, but are they hard? Soft?
Female: Big. Green.
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Overheard by: Rina
Office girl: Why don't you get a baby? A cute little brown baby?
Gay office worker: I don't want a gay-by!
Office girl: Oh yeah, a cute little chocolate baby!
Gay office worker: I'd eat him! I love chocolate! (pause) Anyway where's my urn?
Manhattan, New York
Advisor #1: Wow, you're really almost done packing up your office. All the rainbow stuff is gone…
Advisor #2: I never had any rainbow stuff up. It was just colorful.
Advisor #1: True. It's like the party's over.
Advisor #2: Yup. The make-up's off. My hair's messed up… Can't find my underwear.
Advisor #1: Wait, how is that different from any other day?
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Daniel
Female coworker: I used to spray tan, but they make you orange and then you smell like Chinese food.
Male coworker: Good Chinese food or bad Chinese food?
Female coworker: Not the good kind. And then it gets all dark in the creases, and you get jaundiced knees…
Male coworker: Just what every man wants…the munchies and a sickly white woman.
Female coworker: I wanted to look Italian.
Male coworker: But instead you wound up with jaundice, smelling like Chinese food.
Plaza VII
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Hungry now
Account manager, yelling across the hall: He needs you to bring more photo paper, and black ink.
PR exec, yelling back: A black cape?
Account manager: No, ink!
PR exec: A cape?
Account manager: He wants ink!
PR exec: Why does he want a cape?
London
Canadia
