Developer #1: We’ve never run the application in a clustered environment.
Developer #2: Yeah, but we’ve run it in a cluster-fucked environment.
Canal Park
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Developer #1: We’ve never run the application in a clustered environment.
Developer #2: Yeah, but we’ve run it in a cluster-fucked environment.
Canal Park
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Girl on cell: Let me tell you, there is nothing quite like liquid nitrogen to the vagina…
Outside clinic, Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Keeping My Legs Closed
Customer service rep #1: Is it raining?
Customer service rep #2: The ground is wet.
Customer service rep #1: But is the… air… wet?
Newton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Tom
Cube dweller: Dude, there’s like fucking rivers coming out of my uterus.
850 Broadway
Medford, Massachusetts
Aggravated nurse, complaining about slave monitor malfunction: Can someone come help me with this goddamn thing again?
Helpful, tech-savvy male nurse: What's the matter?
Aggravated nurse: My slave is black!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Speechless, blinking….
Peon #1: Greenfield Community College has gone communist — they’re doing Vagina Monologues.
Peon #2: Don’t get me started on Greenfield’s vaginas.
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
CSR: Nancy had, like, a nervous breakdown after a phone call that lasted an hour and a half. I felt bad for her, but it was also kinda cool. It was like watching glass shatter.
Newton, Massachusetts
Account rep: Is this other elevator still broken?
Receptionist: Correct.
Account rep: But, but, isn’t that, like, a fire hazard?
Receptionist: Um, see those signs that say ‘In case of fire, do not use elevators’?
Account rep: Oh. Right.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: glad she’s not a firefighter
Blonde coworker: But that's the problem with this country, people are lazy now, never put any thought or effort into anything. They're sloppy. Like, some guy passed a bank teller a “this is a holdup” note on the back of his damn pay stub from his job. I can't respect that kind of stupidity.
Manager: You know what? You would be a really good criminal. I mean that as a compliment.
Blonde coworker: I know, right? It's almost scary. I'd never get caught.
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Not sure I want to sit by her anymore
Presenter: So which button do I hit to get to the next slide?
Coworker: The space bar.
Presenter: Okay, and which one is that?
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: mystified