New Jersey

Cube rat #1: Damn, you had braces for seven years and your teeth are still that fucked up?
Cube rat #2: Yeah? You’ve been on a diet for two years and your ass is still that fat?

Trenton, New Jersey

Female receptionist #1: Yeah, now he's all disfigured.
Female receptionist #2: A chipped tooth? They can fix that easy.
Female receptionist #1: Yeah, but we're trying to get a prescription for medical marijuana. Or at least a handicapped parking decal.

Jersey City

Overheard by: It's painful just listening

Carrie Canyon Set the Bar Pretty High

Old drone #1: In my father's day all the men used to get in a circle and measure each other.
Old drone #2: Well, women do that stuff all the time.
Young drone: What?
Old drone #2: Yeah, don't you be askin' your girlfriends if somethin makes your boobs or butt look big?
Young drone: Yeah, but we don't sit there and see who has the biggest vagina. Gross!
Old drone #2: Yeah, well, you wouldn't want to win that contest.

Delran, New Jersey

Overheard by: Bruce Banner

Engineer #1: You don't want me designing that machine. Not even if I was the last man on earth.
Project manager: If you were the last man on earth, who would there be to ask you to design it?
Engineer #2: The last woman on earth?
Engineer #1: I definitely wouldn't do it then. No matter what I did, she would make me wrong. Fuck that!

Paterson, New Jersey

Postdoc: No, my landlord won’t allow two people living in the apartment.
Grad student: But it’s just your wife living with you.
Postdoc: Right.
Grad student: But wives don’t count as people!

Carl Icahn Laboratory
Princeton, New Jersey

Cubemate to another: You know, I am thinking and typing at the same time…

Jersey City, New Jersey

Office man: Watermelon seeds look like ticks.
Office lady: No, they don't.
Office man: Yes they do!
Office lady: They don't have legs!

Plainsboro, New Jersey

IT guy #1: You just need to shut your mouth and cowboy up.
IT guy #2, shocked: Cowboy up!?
IT guy #1: Yeah, cowboy up.
IT guy #2, dismissively: Cowboy up, my ass…

New Jersey

Overheard by: Sully

Suit #1: Why didn’t you call me?
Suit #2: I didn’t have your number.
Suit #1: If you called me I could have given it to you.

32nd Street
Jersey City, New Jersey

Overheard by: Hobo Whisperer

Director (without any trace of irony): So we're going to do a high five every time? That's a great idea!
Producer: Yeah–let's get you all in a circle for the high five.
Onscreen talent (forming a circle): Let's get merchandising! (group high five)

Westfield, New Jersey