Coworker #1 : Yo, did y’all know Robert E. Lee was an Aborigine?
Long pause.
Coworker #2: Do you mean ‘abolitionist’?
Coworker #1: Oh, yeah.
1434 Larimer Street
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: John Howard
Coworker #1 : Yo, did y’all know Robert E. Lee was an Aborigine?
Long pause.
Coworker #2: Do you mean ‘abolitionist’?
Coworker #1: Oh, yeah.
1434 Larimer Street
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: John Howard
Girl: So, I’m really scared because I got jury duty. I don’t want to be in the same room as a criminal.
Paralegal: Well, maybe they’re not a criminal. That’s the point of jury duty.
Girl: But… aren’t they guilty if they were arrested? I mean, the police don’t just go around arresting people if they’re innocent.
1355 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York
Overheard by: sam
Travel agent #1: I would go back there in a heartbeat. China was so awesome.
Travel agent #2: I heard that China was insane.
Travel agent #3: Any ugly girl wrestler has to be a little insane. I mean, Chyna was the craziest woman wrestler ever.
Travel agent #1: Ummm… yeah.
Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
Canadia
Toy store clerk #1: Hey, Jessie*, do we still have any of those Communist uniforms?
Toy store clerk #2: I don’t think so.
Toy store clerk #1: What about the Communist soldier figurines?
Toy store clerk #2: Hm… I don’t think so.
Toy store clerk #1: Do we have anything Communist-related?
Toy store clerk #2: I think we still have the stick-on Communist facial hair…
29th Street and Guadalupe Street
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: amused socialist
Woman #1: Oh my god, I got so drunk last night that I ate a cigarette!
Woman #2: What? Did you throw up?
Woman #1: I tried to make myself. I got some of it out, but the filter is still in there. Do you think that’s bad?
Woman #2: I doubt it.
Woman #1: I have no freaking clue why I did it, I just decided to — it was so bizarre!
Woman #2: Oh, man…
1020 19th Street NW
Washington, DC
Guy exiting bathroom: I hate it when I go to the bathroom and the back of my pants gets wet!
Cottage Grove, Wisconsin
Overheard by: My Pants are Dry
Paralegal #1: Don’t you remember Zweiback cookies when you were little?
Paralegal #2: Uh, no.
Associate: You white people are into different things.
180 Maiden Lane
New York, New York
Guy on phone: I’m single, I’m not tied-down, I’m Italian — what the fuck else do you want?
Cupertino, California
Overheard by: tmg
Female coworker: Well, I guess I hadn’t thought it out so thoroughly.
Male coworker: Yeah, and the hookers were like, ‘Woo-hoo, market share!’
Chevy Chase, Building 4
Maryland
Overheard by: Xen
Bearded man in green pixie wig, pink feather boa, and fairy wings: I think about death every day.
577 Western Avenue
Westfield, Massachusetts
Overheard by: it’s halloween
