Teller at post office: What's your box number?
Customer: “O” as in “honest.”
Manhattan, New York
Teller at post office: What's your box number?
Customer: “O” as in “honest.”
Manhattan, New York
Loan officer: My husband’s parents were married for 50 years.
Receptionist: What’s the secret of being married that long?
Collector: Alcohol.
802 South Westnedge Avenue
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Overheard by: just passing by
CFO to staff: You are the tools who get things done…
Raleigh Road
Raleigh, North Carolina
Overheard by: tool
Bank teller to customer at drive-through: Sorry, I can't wait on you. I must go home, I've messed myself.
Madisonville, Kentucky
Finance controller: Semantics matter when you're getting screwed!
Brampton
Ontario
Canadia
Accountant: The boss is charging all his personal expenses to the firm. We'll have to use a little creative camouflaging to make them look like office expenses.
Trainee: How do we show his father's funeral coffin?
Accountant: Packaging & forwarding?
Garden Square
Panjim
India
Overheard by: Paige Turner
Banker on phone to call center (shouting): I need the washing machine and dryer installed in my house by tonight! This is completely unacceptable. Tonight! Do you understand? This isn't a debate! (now exasperated) It's an emergency: I've got no clean underwear left.
London
England
Overheard by: So many answers, so many questions
Exec: Hey [Nick], I’ve got a question for you.
Tax Manager: Yes?
Exec: I was thinking about you while I was in the shower this morning and–
Tax Manager: You probably shouldn’t be thinking about me in the
shower [James]; you’re a newly married man.
Exec: …
123 Robert S. Kerr Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Tech manager: Okay, I gotta go finish writing this nasty gram to a client.
Account manager: Hurry up! I want puppies. Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Oops, that sounded bad.
Rockville, Maryland
Overheard by: Cindy
Account manager, yelling across the hall: He needs you to bring more photo paper, and black ink.
PR exec, yelling back: A black cape?
Account manager: No, ink!
PR exec: A cape?
Account manager: He wants ink!
PR exec: Why does he want a cape?
London
Canadia
