Creative director: Okay, well… just… put it on the back burner for now. And maybe it will go away.
Art director: I like where your head is at.
Ad agency
Hudson Valley, New York
Overheard by: Staci Lynn
Creative director: Okay, well… just… put it on the back burner for now. And maybe it will go away.
Art director: I like where your head is at.
Ad agency
Hudson Valley, New York
Overheard by: Staci Lynn
Peon #1: It smells like someone took a huge shit. What the hell is that?
Peon #2: It’s the tacos. I had tacos for lunch. Does it smell like tacos?
69 North 69th Street
New York, New York
Male manager to female assistant carrying two cups of coffee: Double fisting? … Wow, sorry. I’m sorry.
175 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Emily
Coworker about manager: What would I even say to him? Let's have sex again?
6th Avenue
New York City, New York
Old man: An hour I’m waiting here! What’s the point in making appointments if they make you wait?
Middle-aged son: What’s your hurry, Dad? You have no place else to go.
Old man: That’s not the point! When they make an appointment they should take you in at that time!
Middle-aged son: Hey, Dad, that’s why they call it a ‘waiting room.’ See all these people? They all have appointments, too.
Old man: When I see that doctor I’m gonna give her a piece of my mind.
Middle-aged son: I wouldn’t do that if I were you, Dad. One little injection and they’ll carry you out of here dead, and nobody’s gonna ask why a 91-year-old man died suddenly.
Doctor’s waiting room
Rockville Centre, New York
Overheard by: Big Larry
Male coworker: But Anne Heche is oddly hot, and she’d be okay with another woman in the bedroom. Plus, she’s insane, which makes her fun.
Female coworker: Well, guess if you’re fantasizing about someone bi and crazy she could be interesting…
Male coworker: See? See? I think she might actually be an alien. That’d be even better! Aliens are sexy.
Female coworker: No, no, now you’re just getting weird and nerdy. Aliens are not sexy.
Male coworker: I always imagined the female alien from Cocoon to be really sexy. She had a great body when the skin was on her, but there was something scary and yet awesome about the glowing part. I’d want her to keep her human skin on, but I imagine sex with her to be like nothing else you’ve ever imagined. And I imagine her kisses to taste like candy and electricity, like pop rocks or something.
Female coworker: Okay, now you’ve let me know too much information, and you’re still getting all nerdy.
Male coworker: Okay, you’re right. This is starting to sound weird.
Elmsford, New York
Overheard by: Bored Beyond Belief
Engineer #1: You ever have one of those drives into work where you swear they’re giving out driver’s licenses as prizes in people’s cereal in the morning?
Engineer #2: Mine came with a free decoder ring!
151 Court Street
Binghamton, New York
Housing: You need to sign this form that talks about the potential risks of lead paint.
Student: Lead paint? Could that be dangerous?
Housing: No.
Student: Really?
Housing: Well, I wouldn’t lick the walls.
400 West 119th Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: djlindee
New girl: How do you file your customer requests?
Veteran: By subject.
New girl: But what if there are two subjects in one request?
Veteran: You pick one.
116th and Broadway
New York, New York
