Loud office chick: You're growing new bones in your body! You have to drink milk!
Hudson Street
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Harriet Vane
Loud office chick: You're growing new bones in your body! You have to drink milk!
Hudson Street
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Harriet Vane
Professor: It's an island somewhere…probably in the ocean.
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Overheard by: Anne
Co-worker #1: User Name is your username, and Password is your password.
Co-worker #2: That sounds easy enough.
Co-worker #1: .And if you forget, I have it on a yellow stickie.
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, California
Admin: What time is it in France?
Worker: I think it’s February.
Admin: Really?
3239 Satellite Boulevard
Duluth, Georgia
Co-worker on phone: I’m “kvetching”…ha, ha…well, I guess you’re kvetching…ha ha ha…we’re…ha ha…we’re kvetching together…wait, what does “kvetching” mean?
175 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Coworker on phone with customer: No. We do not accept payments via fax. No, I'm sorry, you cannot fax your money to us. (pause) Ma'am, you can mail your check or money order to us, we can take check or CC over the phone, but we do not accept cash via fax.
Southington, Connecticut
Receptionist: Hey, help me with this list. The boss wants me to go to the store and get some stuff for the coffee room. You know, stuff like filters and cups and stuff. But I can’t figure out what these icet rays are.
HR clerk: Let me see the list…Sweetie, this says ice trays. You know, for the freezer to freeze water into cubes.
Receptionist: Are you sure? Because if the boss wants icet rays, that’s what I better get.
HR clerk: Well okay, if you really want icet rays, try the office supply store and make them check in the back. You may have to ask for their manager.
Receptionist: Thanks, see you in a little while.
HR clerk: You know, I should have used that opportunity to sell her a bridge.
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Office drone #1: Yeah, and Hercules lost all his strength when he got his hair cut.
Office drone #2: Do you mean Hercules or Samsung?
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: DelilahWorkedforSony
New PR consultant: Wait. When you're in the witness protection program… can you tell strangers that?
Manhattan, New York
Accountant: Why did you switch from coffee to green tea?
Analyst: Tea is easier on my throat and it has more antioxidants.
Accountant: What are antioxidants?
Analyst: They keep me from having oxidants…Come on! That’s funny, dammit!
100 East Rivercenter Boulevard
Covington, Kentucky