Co-worker #1: Are you doing the Chicago marathon this year?
Co-worker #2: No. I would but I’m already doing another marathon this year and doing two marathons in one year is just too much.
Co-worker #3: How hard is it to train for a marathon? Left, right, left, right, repeat!
Chicago, Illinois
IT nerd: So, we’ll move that code to production at 5 AM on Thursday.
Programmer: Is that in the morning?
Mt. Prospect Plaza, Illinois
Overheard by: smeagol
Boss: I smell your cheese… Or your feet.
Employee: Really? I ate it twenty minutes ago… Wait… What?
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: LOL
Female coworker #1: What did you do at the tailgate party?
Male coworker: I just started playing beanbags with some random people.
Female coworker #2: Hey, have you ever heard of a game called Redneck Horseshoes? It’s sort of like beanbags.
Male Coworker: No, I haven’t heard of it.
Female Coworker #2: Oh, it must just be a Missouri thing.
Female Coworker #1: That’s sounds more like a Missour-ah thing.
Female coworker #2: Missour-ah…where’s that?
Female coworker #1: You know. Everything that’s not St. Louis.
Female coworker #2: Is that a state, or a city or something?
West Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois
Developer, talking about boss: Yeah, and I was giving him crap because he wouldn’t come out with us because his wife’s gay… I mean pregnant!
State & Water
Peoria, Illinois
Overheard by: only girl in an office of men…
Coworker #1: Yeah, I went to Egypt but I didn’t really like it that much because it was so commercialized.
Coworker #2: I felt the same way about Israel… It was like there were just too many gift shops.
Ex-army coworker: I went to Iraq. It wasn’t commercialized at all.
Schaumburg, Illinois
Overheard by: Emily
Associate: No, I don’t eat dog food. Maybe I used to…
Vernon Hills, Illinois
Overheard by: just buying candy
Male employee: Well, I guess we’re the last ones here.
Female employee: Yeah, we’re like… the Lone Rangers.
Male employee: Oh, yeah? Who gets to be Tonto?
Female employee: I don’t know. Who was he, again?
Male employee: The Indi– Native American.
Female employee: Oh. Well, all he wore was a loincloth.
Male employee: That’s not gonna be me, then.
Female employee, looking down at her large breasts: It sure isn’t going to be me! … Besides, I’d rather be a horse… Look, that didn’t come out right, okay?
Scott A.F.B
Illinois
Overheard by: they overlooked me
Coworker: I’m going to go draw lasers.
111 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Hear No Evil
