Reporter, rushing up to editor to give him extra work: Hey, Mike.
Editor: So you're running over here to screw me?
Beaumont, Texas
Reporter, rushing up to editor to give him extra work: Hey, Mike.
Editor: So you're running over here to screw me?
Beaumont, Texas
Agent #1: I am really upset today about something I saw on the History Channel…
Agent #2: Was it about Nazis?
Agent #1: No, it was about the universe. There are theories out there that say the universe will end in about five billion years.
Agent #2: And that upsets you? Why?
Agent #1: Well, if it is all just going to up and end one day, then what’s the point of me doing all this paperwork bullshit?
Agent #2: Oh, I know, it really gets to me too, sometimes.
Washington, DC
Woman: I wish I had an overactive thyroid.
Man: Yeah, you’d get a lot of attention that way.
Elevator, 550 7th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Heather
Health Exec: You working late?
Tech Exec: Nah, downloading porn. You?
Health Exec: Oh, you know it. Nursing administration porn. Woo-hoo!
Tech Exec: Send some my way. I’ll send you some telecommunications porn.
Health Exec: “Oh baby, show me your phone. Let me see your router.” Good times.
595 Market Street
San Francisco, California
Reporter, explaining “executive session” privilege to another: The mayor could fuck a donkey in executive session, and they wouldn't have to tell me. But if she does it in the regular session, I'll be all over it.
Weatherford, Texas
Overheard by: Roxie
Senior: Isn’t “Butternut Bread” a brand? I know there is Mrs Baird’s, Iron Kids… Sunbeam…
Intern: Oh, there’s a strip club around here with a one-armed stripper named Sunbeam… But we call her “Nub”.
Senior: [Silence.]
Houston, Texas
Co-worker on phone: I will send it V. I. A. fax.
285 Primrose Lane
Fairfield, Connecticut
Peon: I’m going to be on a jury! I really hope I get a murder trial, since I’m in the city. When I lived in the country, I had to be on a jury for this guy who hit a cow. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to sit through this!’
351 West Camden Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Temp-tation
Coworker #1: Teach me how to say something dirty in Bulgarian.
Coworker #2: I’m not Bulgarian, I’m Bosnian.
Coworker #1: What’s the difference?
Coworker #3: Are you Mexican?
Coworker #1: Hell no!
Coworker #3: That’s the difference.
2157 Main Street
Buffalo, New York
Male worker: There’s already been a killing over a PlayStation 3.
Female worker who waited in line but didn’t get one: Well, at least he got to play it for a while!
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: The Temp
