Manager: I’ll never get promoted. I’m misunderestimated.
[manager leaves]HR Clerk: If “misunderestimated” is defined as crapping your pants at work, then he is misunderestimated.
Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Manager: I’ll never get promoted. I’m misunderestimated.
[manager leaves]HR Clerk: If “misunderestimated” is defined as crapping your pants at work, then he is misunderestimated.
Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Female co-worker on the phone: When is your wife going out of town? We need to get together.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Overheard by: D
Blonde peonette #1: Is this the fax machine?
Blonde peonette #2: It *sounds* like it is.
Beale Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: wicked
Big boss to bigger boss, while on phone with car seller: How much are your car payments?
Bigger boss: An arm, a leg, and a testicle!
Worcester Road
Natick, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Meg
Cute brunette: I have to buy my 92-year-old grandmother a gift, what should I get her?
Old hag of a coworker: Something perishable.
Downtown Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Rhymes with Regina
Analyst #1: I tried working out last night.
Analyst #2: How much did you lift?
Analyst #1: I had 225 on the bar.
Analyst #2: Did you get it up?
Analyst #1: Nah, I chickened out.
Cookeville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Diddy
Female co-worker, just returned from holiday: Oh, Shanghai was wonderful, but I was amazed at how Chinese it was.
Canberra
Australia
Overheard by: What? China’s Western isn’t it?
Worker on phone: Say catastrophe.
Worker on loudspeaker: Castastrosy.
Worker on phone: Yeah, now say catastrophic.
Worker on loudspeaker: Castrastrosic.
Worker on phone: See?
Worker on loudspeaker: See what?
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
England
Overheard by: Yes i see, this is defintitely catastrophic
Co-worker: Some people buy rubbers for other reasons: I buy them to eat them.
Tampa, Florida
Overheard by: Cheryl