Maryland

Teen intern: Is dirt alive?

Suitland, Maryland

Coworker (loudly): Wow, it's really quiet in here!
Sales rep #1: Not anymore.
Sales rep #2: Shut up! You're ruining it!

Camden Street
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Ren

Grad student to undergrad: So I think we’ll probably end up selling our plane tickets, since we kind of need the money.
Professor nearby: Damn it!
Grad student: Um, should I, not sell the tickets, then?
Professor: Oh, oh no, sorry. It’s just that I don’t think I should wear my bathing suit to work anymore.

North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: LabCat

(in a crowded elevator there is a brief, unidentifiable noise)
Co-worker #1 (in Japanese): Keiko*, did you just fart?
Co-worker #2 (in Japanese): Well, my asshole *is* kind of loose lately.
(all Japanese in elevator burst out laughing)
Co-worker #2: What?

Bethesda, Maryland

Overheard by: Minivet

Co-worker: I’m not getting promoted because I don’t show enough cleavage.

Baltimore, Maryland

DBA to male co-worker: I want service! I’m coming to you to be serviced!

Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: I thought that belonged in the men’s room…

Office vet #1: Lisa* was showing me how to use chopsticks at lunch today, you know, cause she’s Asian.
Office vet #2: Lisa*?
Office vet #1: You know, the girl we work with in third party…I don’t know what kind of Asian she is, apparently there’s different kinds, you know…

St. Paul Plaza
Baltimore, Maryland

Statistics professor: … Because honestly, I don’t even know what a box plot is.

University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland

Overheard by: student

Coworker on the phone with her daughter: The days of getting free stuff just because you’re cute are over.

County School Office
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Someone who’s convinced those days are never over

Editor-in-chief: So I can’t say “pubic” on one of our editorials?
Opinion editor: No.
Editor-in-chief: And you won’t let me say “Anal osculation?”
Opinion editor: No!

E Pratt St
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Working at