Chick: Who was that?
Guy: He works for one of our other brands. Isn’t he hot?
Chick: Very handsome. Is he Indian or black?
Guy: Black.
Chick: Dark meat’s the best.
Guy: I haven’t done that yet.
Chick: Really? You haven’t lived!
575 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Thompson
Guy: You seriously want to move to Halifax?
Girl: Yeah, why?
Guy: Because it means that you’ll have to be a pirate as well as a lesbian.
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: colin
Office drone on phone: … So he fit two fingers up his nose?
Back Bay
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: amused passerby
Lady cube dweller: Well, didn’t you get bigger last time?
Man cube dweller: Yeah, but I was thinking about something else.
Lady cube dweller: What were you thinking about?!
Man cube dweller: Your sister.
Lady cube dweller: You’re an asshole.
Man cube dweller: Well, she is my girlfriend.
4015 Shore Drive
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Not her sister
Engineer #1: What’s up? Where have you been the last couple of days?
Engineer #2: I threw my back out from wearing armor all day Sunday.
Engineer #1: Bummer. Plate mail is tough on your back. I usually wear a heating pad under it.
Commercial Street
Manchester, New Hampshire
Office chick: Is that an Islamic newspaper?
Office guy: It’s the Wall Street Journal.
15 East 26th Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: Erak
Worker bee #1: FYI, dude, don’t email the CEO on things that don’t concern you. I was already handling that with Dick.
Worker bee #2: I’m sorry, did something happen?
Worker bee #1: Yeah, he flipped out! You just missed my ass getting totally reamed out by Dick! [Long pause.] Did I just say what I thi–
Worker bee #2: –Yeah, you did.
Worker bee #1: Fuck! I’m calling him Richard from now on!
Tysons Corner, Virginia
Guy #1: How was your meeting?
Guy #2: Short and sweet — I have absolutely no action items, except for one.
2141 Rosecrans Avenue
El Segundo, California
Overheard by: they think my iPod is on
Lady to coworker: It talked like a pig, so I could understand it. And there was a one-eyed llama with its ear hanging down, and a buck that’d been shot in the shoulder. Those were all real animals, but it was the cartoon shark that bit me.
1st Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Coworker #1: New Mexico is a state? Since when?
Coworker #2: Uh, for quite some time now.
Coworker #1: Oh. Well, I didn’t know West Virginia was a state until last year.
New York, New York
Overheard by: She has a college degree
