Coworkers

Coworker: Sometimes I just go out to the warehouse dock and stand on the edge and think about jumping.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Coworker #1: Have you been to Joey’s*? It’s awesome.
Coworker #2: Not in a long time. Not since it was a deli.
Coworker #1: Oh, you should go. They have those big hooba wooba pipes…Hooba booba…Hooba hooba pipes?
Coworker #2: Do you mean hookas?
Coworker #1: Yeah.

330 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, California

Overheard by: Violet White

Female: My nipples are boring.
Male: Does our insurance cover that?

5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi

Overheard by: Brain Dancing

Lunchbreaker: Do you want half my cheeseburger?
Worker: No.
Lunchbreaker: Oh, d’oh. I forgot.
Worker: If I’m going to eat meat again, I wanna eat a slab of beef that is over thirty dollars. I want to make sure that when I’m in the bathroom with cramps, that it is worth it.

1 Easton Oval
Columbus, Ohio

Coworker on the phone: I’ve been doing the balls and it’s been working.

6412 Maple
Westminster, California

Coworker #1: Yeah, so this is what I wrote back to her. [Hands coworker #2 a piece of paper] Coworker #2: That looks fine, and you made a good argument.
Coworker #1: Yeah, and I wasn’t mean.
Coworker #2: No, not at all.
Coworker #1: Though I did sign it “Stop being a fucking moron – Sarah*.”
Coworker #2: Good call.

3350 Riverwood Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: n-ro

Coworker: I know anytime I go to a place with Ted Danson’s picture on the wall, they are gonna have great food.

200 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Coworker #1: If she had been paying attention, she would have caught that.
Coworker #2: Does she know to look for it?
Coworker #1: No, she doesn’t know enough to look for it. I’m not ready to show her that, yet.

150 Batson Drive
Manchester, Connecticut

Coworker #1: I think he had some kind of superdog
Coworker #2: What is a Superdog?
Coworker #1: I think they are dogs that do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to retarded kids or something.
Coworker #2: Oh… okay, yeah, I know the ones.

5885 NW Cornelius Pass Road
Hillsboro, Oregon

Overheard by: Curious Listener

Coworker on phone: Hello? Hi honey. Yes? No, no. Mayonnaise. M-A-Y-O-N-E-S. M-A-Y-O-N-E-S. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise? Mayonnaise? M. A. Y. O. N. N. A. I. S. E. Mayonnaise? Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Okay, see you tonight.

1150 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York