Co-worker #1: Is there an ice cream truck outside?
Co-worker #2: I would be very surprised.
Co-worker #1: Are you sure?
Co-worker #2: There’s a trash truck outside…
Co-worker #1: …Oh, it’s your radio.
Co-worker #2: You mean the Bach Concerto?
130 West Canal Street
Winooski, Vermont
Overheard by: Kelly G.
Co-worker: One of the people I was meeting with was Ray Charles…the white, Jewish Ray Charles.
550 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Southern woman, responding to coworker's story: You might could do it.
Southern coworker who told the story: There ain't no might could about it, y'all!
Georgia
Overheard by: Yankee new to the South
Consultant from India: They should have a word in English for update, like “updation”. Then you can know that the thing has been updated.
Consultant from America: Well, if you look in the dictionary, they list all the verb tenses there are… and I… don't think that's a word.
Consultant from India: Yes, I made it up. Like that super power friggy-liscious word from the Mary Popplins.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Lah
Coworker on phone: “C” as in “telephone”? Oh, “a” as in “telephone”…
Grandview, Ohio
Overheard by: Ty
Clueless coworker, holding up bracelet she found at H&M: The store is exactly like Forever 21.
Patienceless coworker, raising eyebrows: No. It's not… at all! Not even remotely.
Clueless coworker: Well, it's kinda sorta similar in some ways.
Sacramento, California
Manager: If I break your chair, then it's broken!
Durham, North Carolina
Overheard by: Well…yeah
Clueless admin: What does Raj do?
Office manager: He does the same thing Sheldon does, a cosmologist.
Clueless admin: A cosmologist is a beautician.
(pause)
Office manager: Do you mean cosmetologist?
Melbourne
Australia
Intern #1: I work for Toyota. I don't work for Japan.
Intern #2: Aren't they the same thing?
Washington, DC
Grad student female: My dad's a mailman.
Grad student male: Really? Mine was a milkman.
Grad student female: There was a milkman?
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: mike sereny
