Female coworker: Can I ask you a question?
AP clerk: I'm not allowed to answer questions anymore.
Female coworker: Never? Regardless of what the question is?
AP clerk: That's what they told me.
Deerfield, Illinois
Female coworker: Can I ask you a question?
AP clerk: I'm not allowed to answer questions anymore.
Female coworker: Never? Regardless of what the question is?
AP clerk: That's what they told me.
Deerfield, Illinois
Office worker on phone to friend: No, go ahead and ask the question–I can think and work at the same time.
Jeanerette, Louisiana
Maintenance guy: I’ll tell you. Back when I was in prison, at first, I couldn’t sleep because of all the noise. But I got so used to it that now I can’t sleep when it’s quiet.
Boss: When you were where?
Senlac Drive
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: Need to call the Temp Agency
Guy on smoke break: … And when he came home, he only had, like, eight hundred bucks in his wallet — something like that.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Office lady: I kept the Crock-Pot under my desk and stirred the meatballs all day.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Overheard by: Scared of the foot food
Batty old receptionist to worker: So what did you do over Thanksgiving weekend?
Worker: Oh, I delivered twins!
Batty old receptionist: Okay…
Worker: I'm a Big Sister with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and my little sister got pregnant. Guess that means I'm not such a good Big Sister…
Beverly Hills, California
Male flight attendant holding garbage bag and walking down aisle: Trash, garbage, jewelery, wallets. Trash, garbage, jewelery, wallets…
Continental Flight from Berlin to Newark, New Jersey
Receptionist: Joe Barnes, please come to the office, you have a phone call.
Employee: You might have to speak up. And also? If he shows up, I’m leaving.
Receptionist: Why, don’t you like him?
Employee: No, it’s not that, it’s just that he’s been dead for two years.
5900 West Chester Road
West Chester, Ohio
Workbee on cell: Woah, she clogged that toilet? That’s a new toilet! What’d she do, take a gorilla shit or something?!
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Eileen
Old office lady #1: I found out what “buggery” means.
Old office lady #2: What?
Old office lady #1: It means “sodomy.” It must be an older word for it.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Overheard by: PS
