Drinking

Student worker #1: Seriously, why?
Student worker #2: Because I was too lazy to go to the bathroom.
Student worker #1: Were you that drunk again?

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Overheard by: I Hate Student Help

Oblivious female coworker trying to drink soda through a straw: I think it's broken. I keep sucking and sucking, but nothing comes out.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mature female manager #1: Let's get beer in paper bags and drink them on the train!
Mature female manager #2: Cool! I've never drunk beer out of a paper bag!

Manhattan, New York

Female HR manager: I got so drunk last night, I slept in just my socks!
Disinterested female coworker: Ummm, good for you?
Female HR manager: It's one of my levels of drunkenness. It means I'm really drunk.
Disinterested female coworker: Okay.
Female HR manager: You know why I picked this long dress to wear today?
Disinterested female coworker: Ummm, no, why?
Female HR manager, proudly: Because I could skip the underwear!
Horrified female coworker: (silence)
Female HR manager: I think I might still be drunk.
Horrified female coworker: I'm starting to wish I was.

Great Valley, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: everybody has their freak flag

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

Very white girl in business suit on cell in cafeteria: No, I haven't told him yet, I just found out for sure this morning. (pause) Well, I don't have his phone number anymore, I took it out of my phone so I wouldn't drunk dial. (pause) I don't know, I know his address, so maybe I'll just send him a card. “Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm having a baby, and so are you”. (pause) Hey, maybe a singing telegram to him at work. That'll go over big. (pause) He's an elementary school teacher… that would probably get him fired. (pulls out ghetto accent) And you know my baby daddy better have hisself a job!

Princeton, New Jersey

Overheard by: Currrly!

Attorney: I drank 14 beers last night.
Admin: You counted?
Attorney: I counted this morning. That was a solid performance, if I do say so myself.

Pearl Street
Austin, Texas

Coworker in break room: She said it was in college and she was drunk. I don't care how drunk you are, you don't poop on a pillow.

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

Coworker #1: This is Matcha.
Coworker #2: What's Matcha?
Coworker #1: It's tea.
Coworker #2: I feel like a tea bag…

Los Alamitos, California

Overheard by: Lisa

Store clerk to another: Next year I'm going to be totally not pregnant and I'm going to get wasted!

Richland, Missouri

Overheard by: Mac