Gripes

Guy in cubicle #1: What are you doing?
Guy in cubicle #2: Looking at rivers that can kill ya!

349 Mitchell Street
Groton, Connecticut

Overheard by: Livonthedge

Blocked writer: Do you know how hard it is to write a useful, edifying sermon when you’ve got “Don’t You Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me” stuck in your head?

1701 Delancey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Anne-Cara

Director: If I mail underwear, I’ll get fired.

Direct mail department of a conservative Catholic organization
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Chuckles to Himself

Walking man: Hey, John.
Sitting man: Sphincter says what?
Walking man: What?
Sitting man: Sphincter says what?
Walking man: What are you, five? This is a professional office.
Sitting man: You fell for it.

Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Dennis Carroll

Worker #1: They’re out of orange juice again.
Worker #2: Yeah, and they haven’t refilled the cocoa slot, either.
Worker #1: They’re also out of Dr. Pepper.
Worker #3: Well, you could just have the Diet Dr. Pepper.
Worker #1: I’m not an animal!

1166 Sixth Avenue
New York, New York

CFO: Some days I’m amazed at your talent. Other days I just feel like I have forty extra children.

312 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

Co-worker #1: What are you up to tonight?
Co-worker #2: After the week I’ve had, I’m getting so drunk I pee on something.
Co-worker #1: Cool.

College Station Drive
Macon, Georgia

Coworker: I have one word for this project: absolutely ridiculous.

111 Huntington
Boston, Massachusetts

Patient: So how is your blood pressure?
Dentist: Oh, it’s just fine. Thanks.

Dentist winces.

Dentist: Except when people bite my finger. When people bite my finger, it shoots way, way up.

105 Terrebonne Road
Grafton, Virginia

Nurse on phone: I’m sorry, she said she doesn’t want to talk to you… Uh huh… Well, we can’t make a patient talk to someone on the phone… I’m sorry, that’s what she said. You’re her husband, right? Oh, you’re her mother! Just a moment, please.

10 Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, North Carolina