Gossip

Cube dweller, during lengthy speakerphone conversation: Just between you and me…

Washington, DC

Overheard by: and me…

Nurse to another nurse: So that’s how you get all those huge objects in your happy hole!

1600 SW Archer Road
Gainesville, Florida

Overheard by: SuperClerk

Guy on smoke break: … And when he came home, he only had, like, eight hundred bucks in his wallet — something like that.

St. Paul, Minnesota

Co-worker #1: Oh, no way!
Co-worker #2: What?
Co-worker #1: Taylor Hicks is People magazine’s #1 hottest bachelor.
Co-worker #2: Taylor Hicks, the American Idol guy?
Co-worker #1: Yeah.
Co-worker #2: Is that for the Braille edition?

955 Peachtree Parkway
Cumming, Georgia

Cube rat #1: So I woke up on the train, and my panties were gone! They stole them shits! How ghetto is that?!
Cube rat #2: Fo’ real?
Cube rat #1: And they was the Victoria Secret ones!

530 5th Avenue
New York, New York

Bitter CSR: She got some flowers delivered… I should take them — I bet she doesn’t even deserve flowers… But I probably don’t deserve her abusive boyfriend.

2610 Portland Street
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: also flower-less and bitter

Male peon: I was a pink My Little Pony for Halloween once.

312 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

Woman #1: Is Aaron* coming to your house during the holiday?
Woman #2: No, he’s going to Connecticut to spend the money his mother stole from his father.
Woman #1: Well, that’s not all bad.

Clothing store
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

Overheard by: Cashier

Coworker on phone: But he always says, ‘I can’t dance, I can’t dance…’ No, it’s because his breasts jiggle around when he swings his hips, and he’s so insecure about his breasts. That’s why he can’t meet any girls — his breasts move whenever he dances.

Austin, Texas

Assistant manager: Where the hell did you go? I came up front, and a bunch of girls were dragging you out of the store.
Coworker, chuckling: They needed me to show them how to roll a joint.
Assistant manager: I didn’t hear that [walks away].

291 Highway
Liberty, Missouri