Office guy #1: Look! There goes the cocaine lady! You should try to catch her!
Office guy #2: Damn, she’s gone! Maybe next time.
Clackamas, Oregon
Overheard by: Stephanie
Office guy #1: Look! There goes the cocaine lady! You should try to catch her!
Office guy #2: Damn, she’s gone! Maybe next time.
Clackamas, Oregon
Overheard by: Stephanie
Woman: Oh, I want the baby. I just don’t want the pregnancy. If I could just go to a fast food place and order a baby, I would.
4910 16th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana
Coworker #1: What are we getting for lunch today?
Coworker #2: Wang.
Coworker #1: Again? I'm sick of Wang.
Coworker #2: That's a lie, you never get sick of Wang.
Glastonbury, Connecticut
Overheard by: Can't wait for my contract to end
Coworker asking about wireless: I know absolutely nothing about wireless here; my computer is very wireful.
New York City, New York
Overheard by: ED
Woman: So I had sex with the older guy.
Man: What? When was that?
Woman: Like a couple weeks ago.
Man: I can’t believe you didn’t tell me! You didn’t even text me…you know, I e-mail you all my sex.
United Nations
New York, NY
Ranting coworker filling out deposit: Where do all the paper clips go? Everything gets paper-clipped together, and I never see the paper clips again! I’ll bet the bank takes all the paper clips from our deposits, puts them into little boxes and sells them back to us — that’s where the bank really makes its money, you know.
291 Highway
Liberty, Missouri
Overheard by: stealing the paper clips
Female caseworker #1: It was so cute. The one kid wrote, “you are awesome.” but spelled it a-w-s-u-m.
Female caseworker #2, after pause: Wait… was that wrong?
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Coworker, on phone with husband: Well, I think they fell out of my… (pause) That's alright, there's a lot of shit to clean up.
Iowa City, Iowa
Overheard by: Shocked and Awed
Coworker #1: Yeah, I didn't wash my shoulders afterwards.
Coworker #2: Trust me, it was worth it.
Los Angeles, California
Guy #1: Shouldn’t you know?
Guy #2: Dude, I don’t know anything. I’m not a Sultan.
West Greenwich, Rhode Island
Overheard by: Stan
