Italy

Junior Boss: I once crashed a car into a tree for the insurance money.

31401 Via Della Pace
Vicenza
Italy

Overheard by: Lorelie Long

Telecom guy: Hi, I’m here to fix [Barry]’s phone
[Larry]: It’s [Larry], actually.
Telecom guy: Whatever.

International Broadcast Center
via Nizza
Torino, Italy

Overheard by: jk

Blonde: Oh my god, I had the most terrible dream last night!
Distracted-looking friend: Oh, really? What happened?
Blonde: I dreamed that someone told me I could only have one of the plastic surgeries I wanted! I almost cried! (entire elevator stifles laughter) No, really, why are you laughing? It was horrible!

Rome
Italy

Overheard by: struggling to keep a straight face

Employee #1: Shit!
Employee #2: What?
Employee #1: I told you how I had eleven thousand spam messages in my other email address?
Employee #2: No, I didn’t knew that.
Employee #1: So I did as [Filippo] said, I grabbed them from within Yahoo! mail, figuring out it would throw the spam away automatically.
Employee #2: Really.
Employee #1: Apparently it doesn’t do that for another email account. Shit. Now I screwed my Yahoo! mail too. I can’t believe it. I’ll have to manually check eleven thousand messages as spam on this precious address. I am going to kill myself.
Employee #2: Wait, you have to read eleven thousand messages? Who send you that?

Translated from the Italian.

Viale Bianca Maria 6
Milan, Italy