Meals and Snacks

Female office worker, while eating trail mix: Man, all these nuts are making my throat itchy.
Male coworker, excitedly: That's what she said!

Baltimore, Maryland

Bulgarian coworker: There is nothing like the joy of opening a can of tomatoes.

13251 Roosevelt Boulevard
Clearwater, Florida

Overheard by: her accent makes it sound great

Mom, to young child: That’s just more junk. I’m not going to buy you something to write with. How ’bout I get you some candy instead?

Dollar store
Detroit, Michigan

Overheard by: it’s not all like this

Coworker: What’s it gonna take to get you to eat this sausage?

Merchandise Mart
Chicago, Illinois

Associate director: So I found myself on the floor, bleeding, and all I could think was, “Really? I just cut myself with spaghetti?”

Commonwealth Ave
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: cube rat

Engineer cleaning out her purse: Hey look! I had four cereal bars in there!
Geeky coworker: Look at the way those are laying next to each other on the desk, one right next to the other… Those aren’t cereal, they are parallel universes!

Richmond Road
Cleveland, Ohio

Overheard by: The Surly Programmer

Dude: I bought a tea today in the first time in months.
Chick: I’m proud of you…?
Dude: Well, I threw it away when I got back here.
Chick: What? Why?
Dude: There wasn’t any sugar in it.
Chick: Did you ask for sweet tea? Wait, we’re in the South — it should just be assumed you want sweet tea.
Dude: Yeah, I know, right? But it wasn’t.
Chick: You should have asked them if they just weren’t catering to their southern customers and made a scene. That would have been fun.
Dude: Well, I did yell at them. I was, like, four miles away at the time, but I was really cussing them out.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Peon: It still wouldn’t look like soup to me, even if the dog was swirly.

143 South Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Temp: All the food here is good, especially the bacon. I mean, this is real bacon, not the kind you buy at the store.

Culinary school
Pasadena, California

Overheard by: I’m surrounded by idiots

Coworker #1: I love Angie's box.
Coworker #2: No way, Kat's box is tons better. It would kill Angie's box in a fight.
Coworker #1: But Angie's box is filled with those special Oreo balls!

Pensacola, Florida

Overheard by: New Girl