Coworker: Like, when the guy comes to the campus center with all the animals, I wanna know about that. I don’t wanna go in and see the trained skunk and think, ‘I’m not ready!’
Amherst, Massachusetts
Coworker: Like, when the guy comes to the campus center with all the animals, I wanna know about that. I don’t wanna go in and see the trained skunk and think, ‘I’m not ready!’
Amherst, Massachusetts
Coworker #1: Yeah, my DVD won’t record my VHS tapes over to disks. I was messing with it all night.
Coworker #2: Well, DVD players sometimes have different formats — maybe you just didn’t get the right format.
Coworker #1: Here are the disks I was using. Are these the right format for my DVD recorder?
Coworker #2: These are CDs. Where did you get these from?
Coworker #1: What?
Coworker #2: You need to get DVD disks, these are for music.
Coworker #1: I just want to put my VHS tapes on DVDs, and it’s not working.
Coworker #2: You bought CDs, you need to go and buy DVDs to do that.
Coworker #1: I’ve been working on this for the past two days.
Chicago, Illinois
Coworker on speakerphone with messenger center: Last name is Baratta.
Messenger center: Spell it.
Coworker: B-A-R-A-T-T-A.
Messenger center, repeating: P-V-R-G-G-A?
Coworker: … What does that even spell?!
1 Park Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Davey
Coworker #1 looking at a nickel: What the heck is this?
Coworker #2: It’s about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Coworker #1: Didn’t they eat each other?
Wichita, Kansas
Black coworker: Oh, it’s Hanukkah! That’s why I keep seeing so many Jews around.
Jewish coworker: What the fuck? You just wait until Martin Luther King day and see what I say to you…
42nd Street and Park Avenue
New York, New York
Coworker: My sister got bit once, and she needed to get a tetanus shot.
Receptionist: What kind of dog was it?
Coworker: No, it was a girl at Taco Bell.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Overheard by: What am I doing here
Large coworker: What you do is you split the Krispy Kreme in half and grill it, then put the cheeseburger on it, and I swear, it’s the best way to have it.
Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Jessica
Coworker: Every time he gets out of jail I end up pregnant.
Masonic Drive
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: Nurse
Lady coworker #1 standing in hospital cafeteria line: Wow. Cod again? Why can’t they have a bigger variety of seafood?
Lady coworker #2: It would be great if they would serve something besides fish, like shrimp or crab.
Lady coworker #1: Shellfish is always best when it’s fresh, though. Whenever I go to the East Coast I always come back with crabs.
2801 W Oklahoma Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Chinese immigrant driver: Everyone is talking about gay marriage. What is ‘gay’?
Lady driver: It’s, uh, when two men or two women like each other in a, uh, sexual way.
Chinese immigrant driver: Oh! We don’t have that in China.
Calgary International Airport Parkade
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Girl Driver #2
