Client: We’d like the design to stand out. But in a really subtle way.
437 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Captain Obvious
Client: We’d like the design to stand out. But in a really subtle way.
437 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Captain Obvious
Receptionist: How was Ireland?
Office manager: Actually, I was in Scotland.
Receptionist: That's not the same place?
Park Avenue
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Sammy Sanchez
Woman #1: I can’t just walk. I want a six pack.
Woman #2: Oh, I’ll never have a six pack. I’m round in the middle, and I got no back!
Man: What the hell?
Woman #2: It’s a rap song. Ain’t my fault you’ve got no culture.
460 West 34th Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: ahhaha
Temp #1: I have great hearing! Remember the test we'd take in school?
Temp #2: Yeah.
Temp #1: I remember one time you heard that girl, it was on half a zero and I heard it.
Cedar Place
Valhalla, New York
Overheard by: evildead
Admin on phone: Hello? (pause) Oh, hi Mary, this is Bob. Oh, wait. No. Hi, Bob, this is Mary! (laughs)
Middletown, New York
Overheard by: cubicle neighbor
Supervisor: He was just so big. I mean, they were married for five years, and they didn’t even consummate the marriage!
Subordinate: Wow…but did they have sex?
260 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Marian
Worker bee #1: As soon as he was naked he started touching himself.
Worker bee #2: Oh my god!
Worker bee #1: Sometimes she touches herself… but not in a long time. Every time he’s naked he diddles himself!
New Hyde Park, New York
Professor: A modern example of the peasant revolt of 1381 are the anti-poll tax riots that took place under Margaret Thatcher. She refused to work with the public, and it brought down her government. We should take a lesson from this… I hope there are no microphones in here.
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
Overheard by: Hopes There Aren’t
Gossipy secretary: I don't mean to say she's a moron, but she's a moron.
New York City, New York
Candidate: At my last job, our supervisors drilled it into us that we had to document everything we designed.
Interviewer: And what was the purpose of documenting your designs?
Candidate: They were getting ready to fire us.
47 Mall Drive
Commack, New York
