Consultants

Visiting consultant: I think we saw every public restroom in San Francisco. Just what I wanted — a urine-filled holiday.

5760 Highway 80 East
Pearl, Mississippi

Overheard by: Brain Dancing

Analyst #1: We need something to make this tea better.
Analyst #2: Have you tried rum?

10 minutes later.

Analyst #1: Do you have any more rum?
Analyst #3: It’s ten in the morning.

225 High Ridge Road
Stamford, Connecticut

Overheard by: QRC

Secretary: Well, we’re going to Jersey for that meeting, so we could go to the Village Gourmet.
Engineer: Yeah, that was good the last time.
Surveyor: Doesn’t the guy that owns that one own another one too, right down the street from the Village Gourmet?
Secretary: Yeah, but it’s really expensive, everything’s a la carte.
Engineer: What does a la carte mean anyway?
Secretary: Dude, you’re 26 years old and you don’t know what a la fucking carte means?
Surveyor: Aren’t you French Canadian, too?

One Penn Plaza
New York, NY

Overheard by: Melissa Miller

Auditor: What is a ‘Dutch Auction Tender Offer’? Is that where they go to Dutch and have an auction? … Where is Dutch?

Parham Road
Richmond, Virginia

CCA: So, I have to get some KY jelly for my puppy. I’ve never really lubricated a dog’s rectum before, you know?

Sackville, New Brunswick
Canadia

Senior consultant to underling: I swear to god, if you don't change your answer I'm kidnapping your monkey!

Austin, Texas

Managing editor, on drug screening: We even test the interns. I was shocked by that. I thought everyone just assumed they were stoned all the time.

Newspaper office
Ohio

Overheard by: I didn’t get the job

Partner: If you’re busy making a baby, tell me that. I just want to know who is available.

Tysons Corner
Virginia

Male flight attendant: Okay, folks, one last time — please turn your cell phones off. If the person next to you is talking on their phone, smack ’em! That should teach them.

Southwest flight 1911 to Oakland, California

Overheard by: Katie

Male VP: We'll beat it off for now.
Female general counsel: We'll beat it off for the next five years.
Consultant: That's probably the longest we can beat it off for.
Female general counsel: And then I'll retire.

Washington, DC

Overheard by: If I so much as smile, I'll get fired.