Woman #1: It has been freezing in here today!
Woman #2: You know why they keep the AC turned up so high, don’t you?
Woman #1: To keep us alert?
Woman #2: No…for the headlights.
Woman #1: Headlights?
1 World Financial Center
New York, NY
Woman #1: It has been freezing in here today!
Woman #2: You know why they keep the AC turned up so high, don’t you?
Woman #1: To keep us alert?
Woman #2: No…for the headlights.
Woman #1: Headlights?
1 World Financial Center
New York, NY
Co-worker #1: How many kilometres in a mile?
Co-worker #2: 1.6.
Co-worker #1: Woo hoo! I’ve walked over a mile!
Co-worker #2: So?
Co-worker #1: Well, I’m wearing my daughter’s shoes, and now that I’ve walked a mile in them she’ll never be able to tell me I don’t understand her again.
223 George Street
Sydney, Australia
Co-worker: Well, if I am being stalked by phone, at least it’s by a funny stalker.
175 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Co-worker on phone: Huh? I’m stalking you? How do you know?
420 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Senior staff: She used to be, like, a little bit crazy, but now she’s really crazy.
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY
Agent: [Kevin], there’s a call for you.
[Kevin]: Who would it be?
Agent: Duh, it’d be the person on the other end of the phone!
15-17 St Johns
Worcester, Worcestershire
UK
Overheard by: mark nice
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
