Pilot: We have two great flight attendants, and one that you'll find is only so-so.
Flight over Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: AL
Pilot: We have two great flight attendants, and one that you'll find is only so-so.
Flight over Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: AL
Older female coworker: Yeah, you got to just put your face right under it.
Unfortunate-looking coworker, sighing: With my luck, I'd get it in my eye!
Quincy, Massachusetts
Overheard by: TGIF
Cube monkey #1: You?re heading home already?
Haggard telecommuter that came into the office: Yup!
Cube monkey #1: Okay…um…drive safe!
Cube monkey #2: Don't whip the gerbil too hard!
Cube monkey #3: What? I thought he said he was going home?
Billerica, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Boter
Customer: I don't care! I don't care that I need to talk to him! I don't care that he's unavailable! Do you hear me? I don't care.
Customer service rep, blandly: Then why have you called us today, sir, if you're so apathetic?
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: i used to be his supervisor
Peon #1: So, I finally got my new car–it's a Scion.
Peon #2: Oh yeah, dude, you like?
Peon #1: Yeah, it's sweet. It's a standard.
Peon #2: Why?
Peon #1: Well, my brother only has one arm, so this way he can't borrow my car.
West Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Julianna
Girl on elevator: How mad should I be that he is still publicly declaring love for someone else?
Friend: You could point it out, say, “You know, I'd feel better about all the time you spend texting your ex-skank if you took down that you love her on Facebook.”
Girl: I don't want to jump to conclusions or be crazy anymore, he said that she was like a sister.
Friend: It's really absurd to text that much though.
Girl: I don't know if maybe he meant like in The South?
Boston, Massachusetts
New male employee: Does our company have a policy restricting facial hair?
HR: No. If we started restricting facial hair for men, then we'd have to restrict the women too and that's just too much work.
Technology Parkway, Massachusetts
Peon: I will lay pipe to get clients.
Boss: We will lose business if you do that. They'll be like “woah, they're inadequate. We're not working with those clowns again.”
International Place
Boston, Massachusetts
Boss to peon: I tried googling “hamster mating rituals”.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Secretary to boss: So then I put a sweat sock over his head and left it there for about seven hours.
Boston, Massachusetts
