Female coworker: Does your phone have a touchscreen?
Male coworker #1: Well, I can touch it, but it doesn't do anything.
Male coworker #2: Do not tell us anymore about that.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: I wanna hear more
Female coworker: Does your phone have a touchscreen?
Male coworker #1: Well, I can touch it, but it doesn't do anything.
Male coworker #2: Do not tell us anymore about that.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: I wanna hear more
Administrator, on phone: What? The internet's going to go down? Why don't you just suck all the oxygen out of the building?
Manhattan, New York
Tourist: Excuse me, do you know where Randall's log cabins is located?
Local clerk: Randall's log cabins?
Tourist: Yes, do you know where they are located?
Local clerk: Where they are located?
Tourist: Yes, they are somewhere in this area.
Local clerk: In this area?
Tourist: Yes, do you know where they are?
Local clerk:Do I know where they are?
Tourist: Yes, Randall's log cabins, I need directions to it.
Local clerk: You need directions?
Tourist: How about a map, do you have a map of this area?
Local clerk: Do I have a map of this area?
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Overheard by: jocko james
Cubicle rat to cubicle neighbor: I told you about the gynecologist who left me on the table to deliver a baby and didn't tell me, right?
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: This is why I wear headphones
Coworker on phone: Are you sitting down? Okay… I need you to understand you do not feed dog food to your sister. What you did was not okay. Your punishment is no iPod, no computer, no television, you are grounded to your room. You love to write, right? Well, I want you to go to your room and write a story of two sisters who love each other, but one sister was mean and tricked her sister into eating dog food. This sister must apologize to her sister that she tricked, and to mom and dad. You will read this story aloud.
Silicon Valley
California
Colleague: He has trouble communicating. He can only say one word at a time.
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Overheard by: Exceptional Communicator
Guy on phone: No, I'm not calling you. I'm not calling you right now. I'm e-mailing you. This is an e-mail, not a phone call.
Toledo, Ohio
Overheard by: Confused Puppy
Cook: So I'm going to school to get my MBA.
Waitress: Oh, what's that? “Master's, Bachelor's, and Associate's”?
Fort Worth, Texas
Receptionist: How long is your flight going to be?
Employee: By the clock, it will be two hours to LAX and nine hours back, taking into account layovers and the time zones. But I'll only be in the air for a few hours.
Receptionist: Why does it take so long to get back?
Employee: They are three hours behind us, and I have a layover in Atlanta.
Receptionist: Well, I don't think I could be in a plane for nine hours.
Greenville, South Carolina
Overheard by: Ape
Mentor: You really shouldn't wear shorts to work.
Intern: I know, but I had to.
Mentor: Why?
Intern: It was raining.
Oil Company
Houston, Texas
