Coworker: What’s it gonna take to get you to eat this sausage?
Merchandise Mart
Chicago, Illinois
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
Cube dweller #1, dressed as redneck hunter: Whew, that salsa’s hot! I can’t eat any more of it!
Cube dweller #2, dressed as kitty cat: She’ll eat wild beaver, but not hot salsa… [Coworkers stare.]
New Mexico
Overheard by: ummmm…..she’ll eat what?
Weird coworker: I had a nightmare, too! I was standing in a pool eating taquitos, except they were filled with cream cheese and fruit!
111 Founders Plaza
East Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Bamber
Woman carrying takeout lunch: This bag is fully biodegradable and compostable… like my career!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
