Woman #1: What are you listening to?
Woman #2: Bing Crosby. Do you even know who that is?
Woman #1: Duh. It’s that guy who said, “Every time a light bulb goes out, an angel dies.”
Woman #2: You idiot, that’s Jimmy Stewart.
315 North Broadway
Tyler, Texas
Co-worker #1: I know why the sales tax isn’t calculating right at our New England site. Nobody entered New England’s sales tax.
Co-worker #2: What?
Co-worker #1: Yeah, we just need to enter the sales tax rate for the state of New England.
Co-worker #2: New England isn’t a state.
Co-worker #1: Ha, ha! Yeah, right!
1 Merrill Circle
St. Paul, Minnesota
Secretary: I didn’t know I could write off a hummer on my taxes!
383 Madison Street
New York, NY
Boss: Just tell him to call me on my mobile.
Employee: Okay.
Boss: Oh, wait, you’ve probably never heard of that since you’re not from New York. It’s the same thing as a cell phone.
2130 H Street NW
Washington, DC
Company prom queen on regional conference call: Are we prospecting for donors who are interested in maternal morbidity?
International Nonprofit
Washington, DC
Overheard by: No, butter is not a carb.
Recruiter on phone: Are you bilingual? (pause) Do you speak a language other than English? Do you speak Spanish? Okay, do you speak English?
Park Ave
New York City, New York
Instructor: Nine times out of ten, if you shoot at something you're either going to hit it or miss it.
Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Loud man complaining to librarian: Can you turn the heat up or the air conditioning down? It's too cold in here. It might be fine for someone with type o blood, but I'm freezing!
Public Library
La Jolla, California
Biology teacher: So, in conclusion, diffusion is ions separating from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
15-year-old blonde: So it’s like an orange, right?
High school
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Overheard by: jess
Worker #1: Oh, didn’t I tell you I’m moving to Colorado?
Worker #2: Really? When?
Worker #1: I leave next week, but I decided I would move to Colorado when I was six. That’s when I heard John Denver sing “Rocky Mountain High.”
Worker #2: That’s why you’re moving to Colorado?
Worker #1: Well, and because it’s so hot here because of all the global warming going on. You know, they don’t have that in Colorado.
Fairfield County, Connecticut
Overheard by: she actually is moving
