Supervisor: How was the soup the clients brought?
Worker: Didn't you get any?
Supervisor: I had a lot of work and by the time I got there it was sublimed.
Worker: “Sublimed”?
Supervisor: Yeah, I used the wrong word. That happens a lot when I'm stressed off.
Culver City, California
Government employee to admin: Do we have any vanilla folders up here?
Admin: Let me check. No more vanilla folders. We'll have to order some more.
Department of Justice
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Tasty Office Supplies
Grocery store clerk: What is this?
Customer: It's a cucumber.
Troy, Michigan
Overheard by: The Natural EMP
Female coworker: What is that?
Male coworker: Spicy beef.
Female coworker: Is it spicy?
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: She didn't look that stuipd
Woman in bathroom: Smell that peach! You know it's clean!
Pflugerville, Texas
Boss: Do you have any gum? I smell like tuna.
Secretary: Yes?
Boss: Thanks, I don't understand why I smell like tuna, I haven't eaten any today…
Reston, Virginia
Bossman, loudly: I need three large boxes of navels, shipped out tomorrow.
Office peon: Ew… bellybuttons. That's gross. So, is that a meat order, then?
Hill Country, Texas
Overheard by: front desk of the fruit shippers
Male cook: Fine, we'll spell it your way!
Female front desk agent: No, seriously! “Banana” is spelled b-a-n-a-n-a.
(later that day)
Female front desk agent to male front desk agent: Hey, how do you spell “banana”?
Male front desk agent: B-a-b…
Female front desk agent, cutting him off: Forget it.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: David
Manager: Sarah*, why do you have all of those little baggies at your desk?
Sarah: Because you never know when someone will need one, or when we have those potlucks and people want to take things home, or try someone else's dish, or take it home to their kids…
Manager: Sarah, are you sure you're not dealing?
Sarah: Well, maybe I should…I do have a scale at my desk…
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: I'll buy some
Large Korean who likes burgers: You better bring back In-N-Out. I hate Dick's, but love it when it's In-N-Out. Dick's are so small, they never fill me up, that's why it's always gotta be In-N-Out.
Jet City, Washington
Overheard by: Big Fan of Burgers-
