Co-worker #1: Is there an ice cream truck outside?
Co-worker #2: I would be very surprised.
Co-worker #1: Are you sure?
Co-worker #2: There’s a trash truck outside…
Co-worker #1: …Oh, it’s your radio.
Co-worker #2: You mean the Bach Concerto?
130 West Canal Street
Winooski, Vermont
Overheard by: Kelly G.
Southern woman, responding to coworker's story: You might could do it.
Southern coworker who told the story: There ain't no might could about it, y'all!
Georgia
Overheard by: Yankee new to the South
Worker #1: Jane* is leaving. Not to a different job, just to figure stuff out.
Worker #2: I wonder where she's going…
Worker #3: Well, she could move. She has no family. No kids. No husband or partner.
Worker #4: Oh, then maybe she's just going to go kill herself.
Worker #1: I think she just saw Eat Pray Love.
Worker #2: Are you guys being sarcastic?
Reston, Virginia
Coworker in cubicle on phone at 7 am: I can't talk about that right now. I don't want everyone here to know my business this early in the morning.” (after a few seconds pause) I usually wait until the afternoon.
Elkridge, Maryland
Old lady #1: Tea bag? I can't get the teabag to work.
Old lady #2: Why not? It's not like you're bothering anyone.
Old lady #1: Well, I'd have to lay down and my face might get wet from the teabag.
Old lady #2: Yeah, you don't want teabag juice gettin' all over your face.
Delran, New Jersey
Overheard by: Bruce Banner
Coworker #1: Hey, want to go outside to smoke?
Coworker #2: Yeah, I need to hit the can first.
Coworker #1: I already went.
Coworker #2: That wasn't an invitation.
Waterloo
Ontario
Canadia
Female coworker, about male coworker: He let me spray him before!
Raleigh, North Carolina
Coworker on phone: “C” as in “telephone”? Oh, “a” as in “telephone”…
Grandview, Ohio
Overheard by: Ty
Coworker: Did she come?
Secretary: Oh yeah.
Coworker: Wow, that was fast!
Secretary: Yup, in and out!
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Ian
