Gossip

Cube worker #1: I think I found the secret project.
Cube worker #2: Mine?
Cube worker #1: You have a secret project?
Cube worker #2: Uh, no.

390 North Robert Street
St. Paul, Minnesota

Sales guy #1: If I said it was hot in here, would anyone argue with me?
Sales guy #2: No.
Sales guy #3: It is pretty warm in here.
Sales guy #1: I was gonna say… It feels like an attic in here.
Sales guy #2: I would say it feels like the trunk of my car, but I don’t want to go there.
Assistant: Hmmm… If you said that, we would be obligated to ask how you know what the trunk of your–
Sales guy #2: –Yeah, I don’t want to go there.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Male coworker to deskmate: I’m still waiting for Emmitt Smith and Jesus to accept my MySpace friendship.

466 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: Ro

Manager: Man, you guys from Alabama are hard-core putting someone getting the chair on the back of your quarter.
Boss from Alabama: That’s not someone getting the chair — that’s Helen Keller!
Manager: You guys electrocuted Helen Keller?!

Campus Point Drive
San Diego, California

Coworker: Like, when the guy comes to the campus center with all the animals, I wanna know about that. I don’t wanna go in and see the trained skunk and think, ‘I’m not ready!’

Amherst, Massachusetts

Coworker: My sister got bit once, and she needed to get a tetanus shot.
Receptionist: What kind of dog was it?
Coworker: No, it was a girl at Taco Bell.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Overheard by: What am I doing here

Chick: ‘Cause, you know, if you’re fucking a guy and you need, say, 10 or 20 dollars, he should give it to you, no questions asked.

880 Roosevelt Boulevard
St. Petersburg, Florida

Overheard by: Norcross

Woman to young girl: Oh, I got some news that will make you so jealous! I have two colons!

87th Avenue and Roberts Road
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: sarah

Coworker: Every time he gets out of jail I end up pregnant.

Masonic Drive
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: Nurse

Straight guy #1: Are we actually watching the Ellen DeGeneres Show?
Straight guy #2: It’s just on.
Straight guy #3: I think she’s hot.
Straight guy #2: Ellen DeGeneres is hot?
Straight guy #3: Yeah.
Straight guy #2: I saw her in real life once.
Straight guy #3: Yeah, where?
Straight guy #2: I was in a lesbian disco in West Hollywood.
Straight guy #3: Wait, she’s gay?
Straight guy #2: Ellen? Are you kidding?
Straight guy #3: Oh, I thought we were talking about Rachael Ray.

1260 Library Street
Detroit, Michigan

Overheard by: little*bit