Coworker: Who won the World Cup game?
Supervisor: Ghana beat the U.S.
Coworker: Aw, I wanted the U.S. to win!
Supervisor: Why? The U.S. wins everything. That’s why we have the Olympics.
1145 East 4th Street
Tucson, Arizona
Overheard by: Rasputin
Coworker: Who won the World Cup game?
Supervisor: Ghana beat the U.S.
Coworker: Aw, I wanted the U.S. to win!
Supervisor: Why? The U.S. wins everything. That’s why we have the Olympics.
1145 East 4th Street
Tucson, Arizona
Overheard by: Rasputin
Girl: Yeah, so I have to go buy this see-through tank top and a see-through skirt for tennis. It’s so stupid. And I will have to wear another tank top underneath my see-through tank top and some shorts to cover up my balls–I mean… [laughs really hard]
Career Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Overheard by: not-so-smart asian.
Auditorium worker: …she has shelves full of them. If you visit her she goes on and on about all her Hummels. And for each Hummels she has some goddamn story to go along with it. Bores you to death. That’s why I don’t go over there.
700 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: 2qrs
Salesman: Hello, Nicole*.
Receptionist, collapsing on the floor: Oh my god! I’m throwing myself off the building!
8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Temporary Receptionist
Worker #1: Your friend came over. She wanted to borrow a screwdriver.
Worker #2: Why, to shut her fucking mouth?
3600 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, Nevada
Overheard by: Frank Grimes
Salesman: It’s this whole ‘No Child Left Behind, let’s get all the kids to graduate college’ bullshit. If everybody goes to college, who’s gonna do the work? Huh? Who’s gonna dig the ditches? Who’s gonna pick up the trash? We don’t need that. We need kids to drop out of school and do the work.
Birch Street
Brea, California
Secretary: [The client] keeps calling and asking for me. And you know what? The next time he does that, I’m going to tell him that you lied to him.
Boss: What? Why?
Secretaty: Because you tell him you’re going to do all these things for him, and you don’t!
Boss: That’s because he’s an idiot!
527 West Jefferson Street
Louisville, Kentucky
Designer: Any cat lady with a sticker-printing machine… can make stamps.
Manhattan, New York
Suit on cell: I’m going home and changing into shorts. It’s so hot out there I need to throw up.
Washington Mutual
Livermore, California
Overheard by: Stephen
Disgruntled employee at table filled with others: I don't know what's gonna win the race: a heart attack, finding a new job, or getting laid off.
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
