Illinois

Photo person cleaning out pump nozzle of green hand sanitizer: This is just like picking boogers out of a toddler!

Prudential Plaza
Chicago, Illinois

Angry boss: Aristotle is not Belgian!

Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Hear No Evil

Male coworker: I don't understand gentrification. I'm from Idaho.

Chicago, Illinois

Part-time receptionist: This is why people should have more arms.

Naperville, Illinois

Overheard by: Ready to go home

Co-worker #1: Are you okay?
Co-worker #2: I’m okay. But if I could slap people through the phone, others wouldn’t be okay.

515 North State Street
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Peter Gibbons

Policewoman: Right. So then I had to search her, and I found a crack pipe shoved somewhere that a crack pipe should never be shoved. So I entered it in the log, and then I threw it into the garbage. Then she said, ‘No, you can’t throw it out. That’s my best one! I’ll never get another one like it!’
Mother: Oh my god, honey, how nasty! I don’t like you working in situations like this.
Policewoman: Well, but my point is this: of course she’ll get it back. Soon as I release her, she’ll just go digging in the trash and find it, and shove it right back where I found it.

Belmont Avenue and Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois

Suit: We need that information RSVP.
Minion: Uh, ASAP?
Suit: I don’t think so.

Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Joe

Junior art director: Hey, what month is eleven?

Chicago, Illinois

Broker #1: Okay, here's one: would you rather lick the bulge on Jimmy's leg or eat the skin that Richard peeled off his foot last year?
Broker #2: As sick as this sounds, I'd take Jimmy's bulge in a second. I had to sit next to Richard. His foot had a crack in it so deep you could stick a pencil in it.

Chicago, Illinois

Office drone to coworker: She had a very busy weekend, but what she was most excited about was the sausage party!

Chicago, Illinois