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PETCO employee: All of the employees here love the wee wee pads. We use them all the time!

PETCO
San Rafael, California

Overheard by: Housetrained

Distraught manager: My William Shatner pictures are gone! What happened to my Shats?! [Sigh] Life is like a box of crap…

720 Executive Park Drive
Greenwood, Indiana

Editor, on phone with reader: Sir, the phrase “Stick a sock in it” is pretty common. It’s a common phrase.
[Pause.]Editor: It’s no one’s sock, sir. It’s not a threat.
[Pause.]Editor: Well, I disagree. I think it is a pretty common phrase and I think everyone understood what I meant.
[Pause.]Editor: No, sir, it’s not my sock. It’s nobody’s sock.

Walnut Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin

Coworker #1: So he said “I don't know why humans aren't having children, but this stork sure tastes good!”
Coworker #2: Ha! That's funny!
Coworker #3: I don't get it. Where's the joke?
Coworker #2: Retard.

Manhattan, New York

Boss: It's cold in here. I think there's a draft. Do you feel a draft?
Suit: No. It's all in your head.

Jersey City, New Jersey

Overheard by: Hobo Whisperer

Coworker: If she's a whale, then I'm a planet.

Jersey City, New Jersey

Editor: Is there any way we can get hold of someone in accounting to see if this invoice has been paid?
Assistant: I've been trying.
Editor: There's nothing you can check online?
Assistant: No.
Editor: Well, can we sacrifice a cow or something? Will that get it paid?
Assistant: You know accounting is in india, right?
Editor: Gotta hit 'em where it hurts.

Camden Street, Baltimore, MD

Overheard by: I love the smell of blasphemy in the morning…

Boss: Did you draw on my banana?

Hofstra University
Long Island, New York

Technician #1 to technician #2: When the boss asked me where I was at on the calibration I just thought to myself: “If I stand here very quiet and don’t respond maybe he’ll forget he asked me”.

Avionics Shop, Washington

Hungarian coworker with heavy accent on phone with auto repair shop: I drive a 2007 black Foreigner. (pause) Yes, Foreigner, Foreigner -like the Toyota.

Broomfield, Colorado