Male office worker: So, are you looking forward to the symphony this weekend?
Female office worker (excitedly): Oh yes! Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio!
Male office worker: Have you heard it before?
Female office worker: No, it's my first opera. But I've been reading about it. Beethoven was a genius!
Male office worker: Yeah. But why do you say that?
Female office worker: Well, he wrote all that music, and he was blind!
St. Louis, Missouri
Grad student: How was the meeting?
Neurology professor: It was great, and this time I took really good notes, see? Right here I wrote, “Why is the neurons are gone?”
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: LabCat
Male coworker: What's up with everybody being sick right now?
Female coworker: Seriously! I was sick a few days ago and went to the walk-in clinic. The doctor gave me an antibiotic but I didn't take it. I gave it to my husband because he's sick too.
Male coworker: What do you mean you didn't take it? Why are you being non-compliant with treatment?
Female coworker: Well, this is probably TMI, but I can't take antibiotics. They give me yeast infections.
Columbus, Indiana
Overheard by:
Interviewer: On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the lowest, and 10 being the highest…
Interviewee (interrupting): Do you ever do 1 as the highest and 10 as the lowest?
Interviewer: No, I really like 10 as the highest.
Interviewee, thoughtfully: Yeah, I do too…
Omaha, Nebraska
Girl to friend: Did I ever tell you that for like a year in high school I wore pantyhose everyday, even if I was wearing jeans, I'd have pantyhose underneath them.
Dallas, Texas
Dingbell: I love shopping at Trader Joe's! Their frozen food is so fresh!
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Overheard by: Gary
Senior VP: For all you people who are worrying about this problematic new travel coordination system, I just want to reassure you that there is, truly, light at the end of the rainbow.
San Francisco, California
Passenger to another: Federal law requires that you must follow all instructions from uniformed crew. If a naked flight attendant approaches you, you don't have to listen to them.
Southwest Flight
Islip, New York
Outdated salesmen: Why didn't you respond to my text?
Office lackey: I never received your text!
Outdated salesmen: From now on, when you don't get my text you have to call me and let me know.
Office lackey: (walks away mumbling)
Burnsville, Minnesota
Overheard by: Eric Bouchey
Coffee girl #1: Yeah, he's hot but he has weird thighs.
Coffee girl #2: Do guys have thighs? I mean, I know they have legs but do they have thighs?
Coffee girl #1: Ummm…
Wollongong
Australia
