Boss, looking out window at parking lot full of snow: It's like a parking lot out there!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Boss, looking out window at parking lot full of snow: It's like a parking lot out there!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Secretary: I would prefer it if you yell at me once in a while; it keeps me on my toes.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Analyst reviewing error report: Working this report requires critical thinking skills.
Department head: What kind of critical thinking skills?
701 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sales lady: Hello.
Crazy lady: Don’t you talk to me! You don’t know me! We don’t know each other! You have no right to talk to me!
Rochester, Minnesota
Overheard by: Katie
Thin male college student: I’m hungry all the time. I must be a fatty–that’s the only reasonable explanation, I think.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Woman #1: I don’t think I can handle a two-hour meeting.
Woman #2: The trick is to doodle in your notebook the whole time; it looks like you’re taking notes.
Woman #1: I can design outfits for my cat rodeo!
330 South 3rd Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Cora
Coworker #1: Helen Keller… She’s the blind one, right?
Coworker #2: Yeah. Blind and deaf.
Coworker #1: I always get her and Anne Frank confused.
Coworker #2: What? Why? Because they’re both girls?
Coworker #1: Yeah, and they both wrote diaries.
Coworker #2: Uh, I don’t think Helen Keller kept any diaries.
800 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Employee: I just sent you that email with the summary of all the outstanding issues on the project.
Boss: Thanks. Could you write a summary of that email?
111 3rd Avenue S
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Boss: Hey, Joan*.
Admin: Hey, Darren*.
Boss: How's the new pooter?
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Older office lady to another: Oh, that's right, because they couldn't get the shaft to fit my hole…but if you got me the right cable, and put a little tension on it…yeah, I could probably do it upright.
Marquette Ave
Minneapolis, Minnesota
