Black coworker: You're German?
White coworker with German last name: Yes.
Black coworker: How long you been German?
White coworker: Uh…since I was born.
Black coworker: I thought you were white!
Manhattan
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Animal
Black coworker: You're German?
White coworker with German last name: Yes.
Black coworker: How long you been German?
White coworker: Uh…since I was born.
Black coworker: I thought you were white!
Manhattan
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Animal
Executive director: Yeah, I liked that candidate.
Director: Yeah, me too.
Executive director: But she seems to me like she could be a potential serial killer, you know? It was just something about her eyes.
Madison Ave
New York City, New York
Guy: Yeah, so now’s the time I go home, take my shoes off, change into sneakers and sing “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”.
Chick: That’s kinda creepy.
Guy: Yeah, I guess it is kinda creepy. But that’s what I was going for.
Avenue of the Americas
New York City, New York
Middle-aged guy: It took me forever to find this building; it was confusing because the numbers were written with letters.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Devoted Puppy
Phone rep: If I were my eyebrows where would I be?
915 Broadway
New York, New York
Doctor, to patient: I just saw an x-ray of your arm and it looks like shit.
North Shore Hospital
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: Ladle
Paralegal #1: When there is a hurricane, do you know why they tell you to fill up your bathtubs?
Paralegal #2: I think it’s because the water in the bathtub will hold down the floor.
1633 Broadway
New York, NY
Overheard by: No Double Posts
Queer temp on phone: God, I hate Lynn*! I can never spend any long periods of time with her because we can never eat. Why does she have to be anorexic? Why can’t she just be bulimic so she can at least eat with me and then puke it all up later? Hell, she can even use my finger or toothbrush!
1515 Broadway
New York, New York
Overheard by: Jas
Office girl: No one go in the ladies’ room. The Bathroom Bomber strikes again.
1520 Front Street
Yorktown Heights, NY
Overheard by: miss earwell
Guy in jeans and flip flops walks into office at 11 a.m. and high-fives two employees on the way.
Newbie in suit: Dude, he’s totally pulling an Office Space. We better watch him — he might set the building on fire. Or start gutting fish at his desk.
Cube dweller: Okay, first of all, that was Milton who set the building on fire, not Peter Gibbons. Second, it’s Casual Friday, which is probably why he’s dressed like that. And third, he doesn’t work here.
Insurance office
Long Island, New York
