Coworkers

Woman: …and by “different,” I don’t mean “gay.”

Co-worker: I need about 15 to 20 minutes of your time to understand physically what’s expected from your eyes.

Man: I’m the Imelda Marcos of ties.

10877 Watson Road
St. Louis, Missouri

Office lackey #1: I need some experience before I apply to pharmacy school.
Office lackey #2: Have you considered a crack den?
Office lackey #1, thoughtfully: I wonder what UIC would think of that. “I interned at a meth lab last summer…”

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: University Lackey

Cube dweller: I don’t see why people need fertility counseling. They should just buy some cheap liquor and rent a Camaro. It worked for everyone I know on the South Side.

Norman, Oklahoma

Co-Worker #1: Weather is the great conversational equalizer.
Co-Worker #2: Yeah.
Co-Worker #1: ‘Cause every place has weather. And chipmunks. But nobody ever talks about chipmunks.

1593 Galbraith Avenue
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Overheard by: Playtah

Co-Worker: Okay, on the spreadsheet we need the city and postal codes for all of your employees in the Netherlands.
Client: Uh, there’s none on file. We just send to “the Netherlands.”

3600 Mansell Road
Alpharetta, Georgia

Overheard by: jenny from the block

Co-worker #1: What’s inside these things?
Co-worker #2: I don’t know, Chocolate, I think.
Co-worker #1: There better not be anything gross inside.
Co-worker #3: That’s why I don’t eat balls, because you never know what’s gonna come out of them.

117 Kendrick Street
Needham, Massachusetts

Male office drone: So my friend says that instead of trying to stop human nature, we should focus our innate racism at a race that doesn't exist anymore. Like the Tuscans.
Female office drone, barely paying attention: Sounds like a cracker.

Norristown, Pennsylvania

Coworker #1: Has anyone ever been to Hoover Dam?
Coworker #2: No, but I hear that the Canadian side is much better than the American side.

Pendleton, Indiana

Overheard by: Watching for invading Canadians

Male peon: I’m confused… What ever happened to the dad on Good Times? Did he actually die?
Lady peon: I don’t think so, but I’m going to be really sad when Carl Weathers dies.

51st Street and Lexington Avenue
New York, New York

Head cashier: Suck my cock!
Cashier: I'm gonna hang you by your ovaries!

Lake Success, New York