Coworkers

(sound of whip cracking)
Next cubicle coworker: Ahh, my eye!

Mission Street
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: Ian

Coworker: Here it is: “Allen Ginsberg was a 60s era poet, most notable for the poem Howl.” Oh. I thought it was about werewolves, or vampires or something…

Long Island, New York

Cubicle dweller #1: What better way to die, backpacking across Antarctica?
Cubicle dweller #2: I can see the headline now, “Man dies while being sodomized by a leopard seal.”

Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee

Coworker #1: I wasn't that drunk by that point. I mean, I was sober enough to realize that they were branding each other's asses with Christmas cookie cutters.
Boss: Sure…
Coworker #1: No, legit. Sticking the cookie cutters in the fire and branding each other's asses.
Coworker #2: Can you imagine shacking up with someone with an inverted Christmas pointing right to your pooper?

Hicksville, New York

Overheard by: Traumatized

(toilet, stall to the left)
Coworker: Corn? Corn? When did I have corn?

Harrisburg , Pennsylvania

Overheard by: in between stalls

Coworker #1: I feel so bad for them.
Coworker #2: I know, their son is in a coma and only has 30% of his brain working. He's a vegetarian.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Can't believe no one else heard that

Vietnamese coworker using cardboard to fix cubicle, happily: It's like being in refugee camp all over again.

Austin, Texas

Server girl (about black guy in pink shirt): Wow, look at that pink shirt that guy's wearing!
Server boy: What about it? I think it looks kinda cool.
Server girl: But who would wear that?
Server boy: That guy obviously.
Server girl: Okay, you're right, it's okay on him…but on a person?
Server boy: That's fucked up.

Restaurant
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Overheard by: server thenn, idiot now

Coworker: Know what else is farfetched? Hydroelectric power.

Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Julia

Tech guy: And then you hit CTRL+P to finish processing the claim.
Coworker: But it's not letting me CTRL+P. Why can't I control my p?

Victoria
Canadia