Admin, looking up from newspaper and greeting guest: Hello, Mr Blue. Please have a seat, director Green will be right with you.
Mr Blue: You know, if you were my employee and you were reading the paper at your desk, I would fire you.
Admin: If I were your employee, I would kill myself.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Civil Servant
Ugly lady: He only comes over and fucks me when he’s really, really angry.
Friend: Oh. Jeez.
Ugly lady: So that’s as wrong as I think it is?
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Black server: I named my baby Cartier.
Timid white server: Oh, yeah?
Black server: My sister named her little girl Lexus Tiara.
Timid white server: Oh, yeah?
Ghetto white server: They always name they babies after shit they can’t afford!
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Scruffy guy #1: So you actually wear little girl clothes?
Scruffy guy #2, nodding a lot: Yeah!
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Laura
Male coworker, almost bumping into female coworker: You know, one of these days we're going to totally run into each other and… bang! (smacks hands together)
Female coworker: I know!
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Mike H
Grad student: You know those pencil sharpeners you had in elementary school? Well, the same thing happens with the electrical concept. And I didn't know.
Lafayette, Indiana
Overheard by: Rachel S.
Director: You were wearing a tube top and you *still* got a ticket?
Indianapolis, Indiana
Manager who has been in the office all week: Uh, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I haven't gotten that to you. Yeah, I know you need it. I haven't been home, I've been traveling.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: liz
Manager, just after he finishes dialing phone: I’m calling ol’ big tits.
Female voice: Uh, hello?
Manager: Oh… Hi. Who is this?
Female voice, angrily: This is ‘big tits,’ apparently.
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Straight cube-dweller, about hole punch: Well, it shouldn't go there. It should be out in the open on the desk where I can see it.
Gay cube-dweller: What, you couldn't see it sitting there?
Straight cube-dweller: Well, it lives on my desk, not in the closet.
Gay cube-dweller: It's a shelf above your desk, not a closet.
Straight cube-dweller: Well, you would know more about closets than shelves, wouldn't you?
West Lafayette, Indiana
