Intern, after a lengthy conversation with a make-up artist: Oh, and by the way, I’m here to do more than have conversations about murder and rape…
Sargent Place
Los Angeles, California
Intern, after a lengthy conversation with a make-up artist: Oh, and by the way, I’m here to do more than have conversations about murder and rape…
Sargent Place
Los Angeles, California
Accountant: The boss is charging all his personal expenses to the firm. We'll have to use a little creative camouflaging to make them look like office expenses.
Trainee: How do we show his father's funeral coffin?
Accountant: Packaging & forwarding?
Garden Square
Panjim
India
Overheard by: Paige Turner
Temp: I, like, can’t believe I don’t have herpes yet.
1212 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York
Intern, freaking out: Will somebody please help me? My pen fell down my pant leg and I can't find it!
Birmingham, Alabama
Temp #1: I have great hearing! Remember the test we'd take in school?
Temp #2: Yeah.
Temp #1: I remember one time you heard that girl, it was on half a zero and I heard it.
Cedar Place
Valhalla, New York
Overheard by: evildead
Boss to intern: Oh, you're from Kentucky! Is there anything important there?
Kentucky-born intern: Uh, the gold vault.
Boss: (blank stare)
Kentucky-born intern: You know, Fort Knox.
Boss: Oh, yeah! That's where they get the saying “She's locked up tighter than Fort Knox!”
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Peon: I’ve seen her before at bars, but now she’s just different… She’s more cold now.
Intern: It’s just sobriety. It changes people.
Peon: Good point. Wait, aren’t you, like, 19?
Intern, offended: I’m 20.
F Street
Washington, DC
Office worker: Can you come in tomorrow, say, 6PM?
Intern: Naw, I got my fencing class.
Office worker: What?
Intern: You know, just in case the English attack again.
717 D Street NW
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Dannie Boyer
Airhead intern, chatting loudly on cell: I have to go, they actually gave me something to do.
7th and 34th
New York City, New York
Intern: Candace’s* mom is sixty-five! And she’s had seven kids from, like, eight different guys.
1325 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, Maryland
Overheard by: mathwizrd
