Editor #1: Is it fiction?
Editor #2: Yeah, it’s an adult book. I mean, regular fiction, not young adult. That always sounds so weird, adult book.
Editor #1, laughing: I know!
Editor #2: Like it was a little book that grew up!
Editor #1: … Yeah. Like that.
Murray Hill
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
IT dork: It’s like Christmas when you get to open a new server!
Berkeley Street
Boston, Massachusetts
IT guy to IT manager: Nice shoes, are they new?
IT manager: Yeah, but they’re too clean and white. They need to be scuffed up more.
IT guy: You know what they should do? They should make the seven-year old Taiwanese kids who sew these wear them for a few days first.
IT manager: Yeah, that’s perfect. Pre-scuffed shoes. They’d be flopping around in shoes way too big, but at least they’d have shoes for a few days.
Good Hope Road
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Intern: Honestly, I can only dance naked in so many places! Sometimes the studio really is the most convenient.
Washington, DC
Office vet #1: Lisa* was showing me how to use chopsticks at lunch today, you know, cause she’s Asian.
Office vet #2: Lisa*?
Office vet #1: You know, the girl we work with in third party…I don’t know what kind of Asian she is, apparently there’s different kinds, you know…
St. Paul Plaza
Baltimore, Maryland
CSR #1: So, no one was murdered yesterday?
CSR #2: Yeah, I guess it was a good day.
CSR #1: Depends on your point of view.
CS supervisor: I’m leaving.
Staples Drive
Framingham, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Heater
Internet sweatshop girl: Its getting cold in here!
Internet sweatshop guy: Does it make you want to put on all of your clothes?
Hell’s Kitchen
New York City, New York
Coworker: With as much time as we spend pulling stuff out of our ass around here, it’s amazing they even give us chairs.
Fort Worth, Texas
Token black kid: When Obama is elected we’ll have fried chicken Fridays!
Super white Californian: I love fried chicken!
[they quickly embrace]
UMass
Amherst, Massachusetts
Overheard by: wallflower
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
