Meals and Snacks

Office worker: Why does it say “lack of milk”? The whole fridge is full!

Translated from the Swedish.

Arstaangsvagen 21
Stockholm, Sweden

Office worker #1: Coffee, coffee, coffee…I love coffee…Here goes down…down in to my belly. Coffee is the greatest drug ever.
Office worker #2: Seriously, especially since you don’t get fat because it doesn’t give you the munchies…I need to drink more coffee.
Office worker #1: Yeah, you do.

9785 Towne Centre Drive
San Diego, California

Building service: Coffee’s shit, man.
White collar: Yeah. Gotta work, though.

The building service person snorts an imaginary line from the countertop.

Building service: Dat’s da shit you need, man. Coke id up.

1114 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY

Suit: You’re Asian, so I bet you want tea. We Americans like our morning coffee.
Asian interviewee #1: No, I had Starbucks on the way here.
Suit: We Americans like milk in our coffee. Asians drink it black, right?
Asian interviewee #2: No, I take mine light and sweet.
Suit: Well, you still wanna work here, right?

Midtown
New York, New York

Overheard by: Laughing in America

Operations manager: This chart really gets into the details if you're interested.
Assistant director: I don't think we really need to go into all the sausage-making details.
Director: Yeah, I've seen way too much sausage.

Portland, Oregon

Overheard by: Worst part? No one else laughed.

Employee #1: Oh, so you are talking apples and oranges?
Employee #2: No, I am talking about two different things.

701 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Coworker: Whoever invented coffee was amazing!!

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: thought God did that?

Worker: The vendor wants to come in to finalize the program we discussed last month. Can you meet with him next week?
Boss: No, I am booked all week. Wasn't he supposed to send some follow up information?
Worker: I don't know, I was eating lunch.

Washington, DC

Lady on phone: Girrrl, you done sound like an apple pie that’s been baked!

Evanston, Wyoming

Obese woman on mobility scooter, scowling: Whatever happened to rational soups?

Employee cafeteria
Salisbury, Maryland

Overheard by: minnie stronie