Older woman: It isn’t good for your metabolism to eat too little.
Younger woman: Yeah, I remember when I was a kid and saw those starving African kids on TV. I said, “They aren’t fat, look at their bellies!” That’s what happens when you don’t eat enough, you get bloated.
1500 University Drive
Billings, Montana
Co-worker #1: Do you want to go to lunch?
Co-worker #2: I’m on a diet.
Co-worker #1: But we’re going to get ice cream afterward.
800 E. 96th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana
Lobbyist #1: You remember how it was in school…drinking, gambling,
and being investigated by the IRA.
Lobbyist #2: Don’t you mean the IRS?
Lobbyist #1: No, the IRA. Irish Republican Army.
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
Girl #1: You’re from Utah?
Girl #2: Yes.
Girl #1: Do they make you, like, wear bonnets there?
Girl #2: Yes.
Girl #1: Really?
Girl #2: No.
1000 Longfellow Blvd
Lakeland, Florida
Overheard by: Denise
Jet-Setting boss: I have to go to fucking Appleton, Wisconsin. Appleton, Wisconsin! What am I going to do there?
Secretary: Well, there’s always cow-tipping.
512 7th Avenue
New York, NY
Bank teller: Are you sure you sent the wire?
Branch manager: Yeah. I sent it to Sweden. Or Switzerland. Or some country that starts with an “S”.
1281 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, New York
Overheard by: Bee
Office girl: I know she’s somewhere but not here right now.
555 Broadway
New York, NY
Coworker: Those people in the Tsunami, they deserved to die. They were being greedy, collecting fish from the sea…they should have known there are three phases of a Tsunami.
60 Livingston Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota
Co-Worker #1: Do you know the generic country code of London?
Co-Worker #2: Umm, London is a city, not a country.
Co-Worker #1: Oh OK, was not aware.
440 9th Avenue
New York, NY
Senior Manager: They’re paying him $70,000 a year. What is he going to do? Live in a shack in the Bronx?
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
Co-worker #1: Well, well, that’s an interesting name! What backround is that?
Co-worker #2: It’s Turkish.
Co-worker #1: Really! That’s so interesting, because I just spent the last twenty years in Germany and there are apparently a lot of Turks there. I don’t think I’ve ever actually met one, but there are supposed to be a lot of them there.
165 Markham Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
