Coworker #1: I dated this girl with a house in the Hamptons.
Coworker #2: Oh yeah, the Hamptons, in the middle of the state, known for the rolling green hills.
Coworker #1, looking befuddled: What?
Northampton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Al
Coworker #1: I dated this girl with a house in the Hamptons.
Coworker #2: Oh yeah, the Hamptons, in the middle of the state, known for the rolling green hills.
Coworker #1, looking befuddled: What?
Northampton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Al
Intern: North Korea is only the scariest country on the planet.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Overheard by: Temp
Boss: At least we aren't in Tahiti!
Marketing guy: Tahiti?
Boss: Yeah, I heard they had a bad storm there.
Marketing guy: I didn't hear about that.
Boss: Oh… I think it was an earthquake actually.
Marketing guy: Uh-huh. You mean Haiti?
Boss: Yeah, that's it. An earthquake in Haiti.
Beachwood, Ohio
Overheard by: ~The Cleveland Kid
Salesman on phone: No, no: it's a merger, not a takeover. It's kind of like when Germany merged with Poland in World War II.
New Albany, Ohio
Overheard by: I can't tell if he's joking or not
Coworker giving directions on the phone: You need to go west. Do you know which way's west?
Oregon
Goofy redhead: Third world countries are just… so poor.
Louisville, Kentucky
Overheard by: And water is just… so wet.
Customer: Now, your bank operates in 18 different countries? That's throughout the world, I suppose.
Paris
France
Overheard by: Peter
Guy to complaining girl: Well… At least we're not in Auschwitz.
Seattle, Washington
Doctor: I'm thinking about going up to Austin this weekend.
Nurse #1: What's in Houston?
Doctor: Austin.
Nurse #2: What about Houston?
Doctor: Austin!
Smart-ass tech: Boston?
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
Overheard by: Geographically Declined
Coworker: This one student went to school in New Mexico, so that's a foreign school, right?
Boss: Um… No, New Mexico is a state.
Coworker: Oh, really? New Mexico is a part of the United States?
Portland, Maine
