Cubicle partner: it's like spilled milk under the bridge…
Manhattan, New York
Cubicle partner: it's like spilled milk under the bridge…
Manhattan, New York
Female Excel nerd: Time to go make more price lists! Excel is my bitch.
Redheaded dominatrix: And you are mine.
42nd Street
New York City, New York
Attorney reading medical report: Sue*, is this right?
Sue, the paralegal: Yup. Sure is.
Attorney: But… Why does it say ‘Christina*’ on this set of reports, and ‘Christopher’ on this set?
Sue, patting attorney on back: Read it all the way through, you’ll get it.
Attorney, from rear office five minutes later: Oh, lord… He’s… I mean, she’s… I mean… Sue? Can you come in here, please?
Sue, yelling across the office: Did you see the pictures yet?
Attorney: What?! There are pictures?! Where…? Oh, my good god! Sue!
Law office, Broadway
New York, New York
Guy #1: Man, I wish we had one of those things. You know, you put money in and food comes out?
Guy #2: Vending machine?
Guy #1: Yeah. Right.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Scott
Intern #1: Well, we got these power packs for our laptops. But how do we charge them?
Intern #2: Um…you plug it in the wall!
Intern #1: How was I supposed to know that?
300 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Woman #1: I've been drinking tons of water.
Woman #2: Oh, yeah?
Woman #1: Yeah, I've been peeing like crazy.
Woman #2: Oh, yeah?
Woman #1: Yeah, like every five minutes. I hate peeing. It is so boring.
New York City, New York
Worker guy #1: I love names that are states. Or cities. Madison, Dakota, Georgia…
Worker guy #2: Jordan…
733 Third Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: the temp
Co-worker: I just walked past the copy and fax machine area, and all the hair on my arms stood straight up like a science fiction movie!
640 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Boss: I don’t want you to answer the department phone anymore. Unless I’m on another line, that is.
Drone: OK…sure. Uh, what happened? I mean, did someone complain about me?
Boss: Not yet.
7 Times Square
New York, NY
Man in armchair, to no one: You’re always fuckin’ starting with me. Every morning! [Long pause] And then you start in on the gay thing. I’m not talking to you! You started it, and then you tell me to shut up. You shut up! Always, you start it then tell me to shut up. [Long pause] And you try to tell me I’m sick… Read a goddamn newspaper! There’s child porn, and Anna Nicole Smith is dead and they’re fighting over her baby, and you tell me I’m sick?!
Book store
Greece, New York
Overheard by: confused reader
