Boss: (blows nose)
Annoyingly nice coworker: Are you alright? Can I help you with anything?
Boss: Are you serious? I'm blowing my nose. How do you want to help?
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: lori
Boss: (blows nose)
Annoyingly nice coworker: Are you alright? Can I help you with anything?
Boss: Are you serious? I'm blowing my nose. How do you want to help?
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: lori
Attorney: It's not so cold out.
Secretary: Is that why your nose is bright red?
Attorney: No, that's because I've been drinking.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: amused intern
Office guy: I spent a year of my life having chocolate milk and a Butterfinger Bar for breakfast.
Office girl: Oh my god! I hate boys! Girls could never do that!
Office guy: That's because women have babies.
Boston, Massachusetts
Admin on phone with engineer: Hello, it's me. (pause) At the desk. (pause) I know, what are you wearing? (pause) Haha…okay, we need to end this conversation, because I do not need to go to a seminar.
Boston, Massachusetts
Suit on cell: He was a good bad guy, y'know? But they should have made him disappear into a vortex!
Westwood, Massachusetts
Coworker: I don't have a listing for anyone, period. Okay, wait…that is a lie. I have listings, just not like on a list or anything.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rusty
Female coworker on phone with manager: Yes, I know it's an impossible request. (pause) I don't know, either he thinks he's freakin' Jesus or he thinks I am. Either way, I'm about to get a cheap, perverse thrill out of crushing his entire belief system.
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Overheard by: I think I'm Santa
Faculty director, holding out banana: Would you like a banana?
Female program coordinator: Uh, no thanks, I'm all set.
Faculty director, holding out flowers: Well, maybe you'd like these instead!
Female program coordinator: Oh! That's so nice of you! Aw, you're off my bad list.
Faculty director: Wow, and I thought I would get off with just the banana!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Allison
Man #1, discussing peanut usage in Asia: Peanuts are not native to Asia! The peanut was invented by George Washington Carver!
Man #2: That is completely false! You cannot invent a peanut, you can only discover it, and that happened way before George Washington Carver…he invented peanut butter.
Man #1: Listen, I am not a man of pride, but I know this much: George Washington Carver was a good man and he invented the peanut by using cross-breeding! This is what I have been told my whole life!!
Man #3: I'm googling that business right now. (uses BlackBerry) Wow, that man was obsessed with peanuts!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Someone clearly struck a cord with this topic
60-year-old boss, walking in late to a meeting: Sorry I'm late, guys. I got caught up watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch this morning.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Overheard by: sabrina lover
