Older woman: This is the first day since you started here that I haven't talked to you!
Younger man: I know! I'm going to go home and write about it in my diary!
Anoka, Minnesota
Overheard by: Will he use his sparkly pen?
Older woman: This is the first day since you started here that I haven't talked to you!
Younger man: I know! I'm going to go home and write about it in my diary!
Anoka, Minnesota
Overheard by: Will he use his sparkly pen?
VP: This’ll be the director’s Easter present to you.
Coordinator: Oh, you mean I don’t get any eggs this year?
VP: No, you don’t.
Coordinator: Well, can you at least hide it so I can find it?
VP: Yes, we can do that.
900 Simpson Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
Male coworker: You should send the calls to the UK, since they'll be open tomorrow. They don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Who else will be working tomorrow?
Female coworker: Jewish people. No…wait, that's Christmas.
St. Paul, 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
