Supervisor: Just do whatever’s easier for you.
Word processor: It’s easiest to do it this way, ’cause then I don’t have to think.
Supervisor: Well, you want to think a little bit…
Word processor: Nah, not really.
1 World Financial Center
New York, New York
Office drone #1: So my new next door neighbor’s name is Amanda and she has a 2-year-old named Mercedes.
Office drone #2: Good luck keeping that one off the pole.
15 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Employee #1: What the fuck. This sandwich is impossible.
Employee #2: It looks like a big, gaping vagina.
Employee #1: It’s like eating out a big vagina. Look! Chunks are falling off!
Employee #2: Your sandwich has an STD! Like hooker poon.
Employee #3, holding identical sandwich missing a single bite: Well, looks like I’m done. If anyone wants my dirty vagina sandwich you’re welcome to it. Thanks for the lunch convo.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Kathryn
Coworker: So, has the National Guard taught you head shots yet?
UPS guy: Nah, but we’re gonna start with civilians.
17 Battery Place
New York, New York
Overheard by: Kona Gallagher
Trader #1, wearing yarmulke: …and your business is in Brooklyn?
Trader #2: No, Brooklyn is where the yams hang out. You know, your people.
200 Vesey Street
New York, New York
IT manager: Sometimes when I’m down and nothing makes any sense, I just pretend I work for Emeril Lagasse.
West Village
New York, New York
Former secretary: They fired me! Can you believe that? They fired me because they said I had a shitty fuckin’ attitude!
Student government office
New York, New York
Overheard by: Still laughing
Man: It’s OK. We can still do it in my office.
Woman: That sounds fantastic.
Route 9
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts
Overheard by: twelve step
Engineer #1: This milk’s gone bad.
Engineer #2: So you just put three quarters of a gallon of bad milk back in the fridge?
Engineer #1: I told Hal* this morning and he said he’d take care of it, but obviously never did, so now whoever used it is gonna end up sick in bed tomorrow.
Architect: That’s ok, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow.
71 West 23rd Street
New York, New York
Female coworker: I went out with friends last night.
Male coworker #1: That lie again?
Male coworker #2 butting in: I thought I was the only one who lied about having friends. We have so much in common!
Male coworker #1: So, what about your husband? He didn’t go out with you?
Female coworker: That wasn’t my husband. That was a male escort I hired to pretend to be my husband.
Male coworker #2 butting in: See? I don’t have a husband either! That was just a male escort I hired! We have so much in common.
Pause
Male coworker #1: Ok. You crossed a line with that one.
214 W 39th Street
New York, New York
