Voice #1, on other side of the wall: You know, the one with the heroin thing and double-ended dildo!
(silence)
Voice #2: Are we still talking about movies?
Princeton, New Jersey
Overheard by: Amanda
Voice #1, on other side of the wall: You know, the one with the heroin thing and double-ended dildo!
(silence)
Voice #2: Are we still talking about movies?
Princeton, New Jersey
Overheard by: Amanda
Employee: I have to leave, my mother’s bleeding.
Manager: Again?
Employee: Bleeding somewhere down there [gestures below waist] — she’s not sure where.
Manager: What kind of doctor do you call for that?
Rochelle Park, New Jersey
CSR: I really hate it when customers are named that.
Supervisor: What?
CSR: ‘Dick.’ [Giggles] Because then I have to say that…
473 Ridge Road
Dayton, New Jersey
Overheard by: office peon
Boss to distant customer inquiring about the weather: Holy fuck–it's rainin' harder than a cow pissin' on a flat rock.
Columbia, New Jersey
Employee to boss: Number 1, this is number 3 calling.
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Young drone on cell: We were talking about my shirts and how my butt crack hangs out, then Mae* pulled on my shirt and ripped it… So yeah, that's what happened.
Delran, New Jersey
Overheard by: Bruce Banner
IT guy: This is brand new. It's pre-owned.
Coworker: So is it brand new? Or pre-owned?
IT guy: It's brand new pre-owned.
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Overheard by: God help us.
Cubicle-dweller, on phone: I think they might be swingers.
Piscataway, New Jersey
Overheard by: Tom
Employee #1: There’s a fire in the kitchen!
Employee #2: Should we call the fire department or pull the alarm or something?
Employee #3: No, because they’ll make us evacuate.
259 Prospect Plains Road
Cranbury, New Jersey
Employee: It's scary when your own government is telling you that the unemployment rate will raise and economy will worsen.
Friend: Hmm. Debatable.
Employee: It's like your parents telling you that you're going to be a junkie in the coming year.
Piscataway, New Jersey
Overheard by: Caroline
