Receptionist: It was 190 miles off the coast.
Secretary: That's like from here to Montauk.
Receptionist: I don't know. I don't know anything about geometry.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
Receptionist: It was 190 miles off the coast.
Secretary: That's like from here to Montauk.
Receptionist: I don't know. I don't know anything about geometry.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
Girl to another: No, Pennsylvania is one state and Philadelphia is another!
Boynton Beach, Florida
Overheard by: Napalm Seth
Woman in line: I want to go somewhere foreign this summer. How about Guam?
Cashier: Actually, Guam is part of the United States.
Woman in line: Ugh, these things change so often. We must have gotten it, like, a year ago, right?
Cashier: Actually, we've owned Guam since the 1800s. It sends a non-voting member to Congress, but they have no elector, so they don't matter for presidential elections.
Woman in line: Oh, thank god.
Rite Aid
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Boss: My daughter used to have a friend when she was little. The kid's mom was from Sweden and the dad was from Slovenia, one of those countries in…where is it again?
Admin: Eastern Europe.
Boss: Exactly, one of those Indian countries.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: workingwithmorons
Mailroom boy #1: And they say chivalry's dead.
Mailroom boy #2: What's “chivalry”?
Omaha, Nebraska
Cube rat #1: My son asked me last night what happens if the President dies. Does the Vice President really take over? I wasn't sure what to tell him.
Cube rat #2: Yeah, I believe that is what happens, or maybe they hold another election to re-choose the President.
Cube rat #1: I guess it is hard to tell, since it has never happened before.
Cube rat #2: Yep.
San Diego, California
Overheard by: Poking my eyes out
Man #1, discussing peanut usage in Asia: Peanuts are not native to Asia! The peanut was invented by George Washington Carver!
Man #2: That is completely false! You cannot invent a peanut, you can only discover it, and that happened way before George Washington Carver…he invented peanut butter.
Man #1: Listen, I am not a man of pride, but I know this much: George Washington Carver was a good man and he invented the peanut by using cross-breeding! This is what I have been told my whole life!!
Man #3: I'm googling that business right now. (uses BlackBerry) Wow, that man was obsessed with peanuts!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Someone clearly struck a cord with this topic
Salesperson: You need to get the tri-band phone so you'll have service in all 63 states wherever you go.
Hargray Wireless
Ridgeland, Mississippi
Employee, on 9/10: Ohhh…I just realized what tomorrow is.
Boss: Talk like a parrot day?
Employee: Uhh…no.
Cleveland, Ohio
Overheard by: Intern
Office manager: I think in my past life I was born in the Depression.
Hallway, Washington
