Man on phone: How's your brother doing? Is he incarcerated somewhere?
Detroit, Michigan
Man on phone: How's your brother doing? Is he incarcerated somewhere?
Detroit, Michigan
Guy: I have to go see my mom, she just had her hip replaced.
Intern: Where is “hipper place”?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: JDS
Woman #1: I'm so excited about the new mother/meditation room. I can totally pretend to be meditating.
Woman #2: I can totally pretend to be lactating!
Evanston, Illinois
Office worker: After my father died I needed something to fill my head, so I thought “Oh! Celebrity doll collecting!”
Beacon Street
Newton, Massachusetts
Intern #1 to intern #2: Dude, you need to stop making babies!
Virginia
Admin assistant #1 (talking about her daughter's day camp): When I pick her up, I'm going to complain to the camp office. The counselors have these kids eating bugs as a fun, Fear Factor type of activity!
Admin assistant #2: Did your kid eat a bug?
Admin assistant #1: Yeah! Yesterday, she said she ate a butterfly!
Admin assistant #2: A butterfly? That's like eating a baby!
Fairfield, Ohio
Peon, walking into boss’s office: What smells so good? It smells like my grandmother’s cooking.
Boss: Oh, Joan* brought pork chop for lunch. I guess she thought I was emancipated.
Peon, laughing and mumbling: She thought what?
Athens, Georgia
Coworker and mother of a two and a five-year-old : Oh wait! I gotta go. I have to pick my kids up from the jail!
N Willamette Street
Coburg, Oregon
Overheard by: Glad her husband is a sheriff
Mother shouting on cell: How the fuck do I know what he eats? I’m his mother, not his nanny.
New York City Library, New York
Overheard by: Took care of my own children
Old drone #1: You really gotta just close your eyes and gulp it down, I find it spicy, although my daughter says it’s bitter.
Old drone #2: Yeah, I like it though, just don’t get any on your dress, it’s a bear to get out of clothes.
Cindel Drive
Delran, New Jersey
Overheard by: Bruce Banner
