Boss: I need you to email this to [Kevin].
Assistant: No problem, I have the electronic version right here. I’ll email it out in a sec.
Boss: Great…Oh, and make sure my notes don’t show up when you send it out.
Assistant: Your notes?
Boss: Yeah, the notes I wrote there in the margins.
Assistant: Um, don’t worry. They won’t.
Boss: Great, thanks.
Assistant: Just fucking retire already…Jesus!
300 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Adviser: Okay, is everyone here? Great. So, John*, why don't you tell us what you've worked on this week?
John: Well, I did…
Adviser, interrupting: Actually, John, I'm just going to hummer you for a minute while I show them the data.
Female grad student: Um, what?
Adviser: I'm going to hummer him and just show everyone this, you know, like run over him like a big fucking car.
Female grad student: Uh, okay, but you can't say that.
Adviser: What? Why?
Female grad student: I'll tell you after lab meeting.
Adviser, angrily: What is so bad about saying that? Is it like mean or something to “hummer” someone?
Female grad student: Well it's not mean, it's just… Yeah, don't say that. Ever. We'll talk later.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: LabCat
Nurse: I think I have worked at every hospital around here. If I ever get anything stuck up my ass, I’m going to have to drive, like, 4 hours to find a hospital where nobody knows me.
100 East Carroll Street
Salisbury, Maryland
Co-worker: It’s been my 12th year in this godforsaken country and I never made it past Baltimore.
2910 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Shara Jenkins
Conductor #1: I found a purse back there, I'm taking it up front.
(walks through the cars)
Conductor #2 on PA: Attention passengers, if anyone has a pair of red high heels to match Alan's* new bag please see him in the first car.
MARC Train
Brunswick, Maryland
Janitor #1: Daaamn man, I feel you!
Janitor #2: Yeah, man, but then there was that other thing…
Janitor #1: What you talkin’ ’bout, man? She’s fucking hot!
Janitor #2: The whole gang-rape thing. Dunno ’bout that.
Janitor #1: … Oh.
Main Breezeway, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: just another med student
Coworker, on phone to husband: Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but… You should tell the doctor that you've… gotten smaller.
Annapolis, Maryland
Worker bee: I guess he’s a she now. Or again, I guess. Gender pronouns don’t really apply, apparently.
3215 Corporate Court
Ellicott City, Maryland
Boss: It smells good in here! What is that? Grape?
Female employee: Uh, no, it’s cranberry. Cranberry room spray.
Boss, after long pause: So, did you just fart or something?
4511 Knox Road
College Park, Maryland
VP: Have fun tomorrow!
Underling: Not that much fun, 'cause I'm going to a funeral…
Bethesda, Maryland
