Senior staff: She used to be, like, a little bit crazy, but now she’s really crazy.
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY
Senior staff: She used to be, like, a little bit crazy, but now she’s really crazy.
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY
Co-worker: One of the people I was meeting with was Ray Charles…the white, Jewish Ray Charles.
550 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Consultant from India: They should have a word in English for update, like “updation”. Then you can know that the thing has been updated.
Consultant from America: Well, if you look in the dictionary, they list all the verb tenses there are… and I… don't think that's a word.
Consultant from India: Yes, I made it up. Like that super power friggy-liscious word from the Mary Popplins.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Lah
VP, strolling into cube farm: Toasters or toaster ovens?
Staffer #1: Toasters.
Staffer #2: Toasters.
Staffer #3: Toaster ovens!
VP: Toasters, right? We already have a toaster oven.
Staffer #4: Definitely toasters.
Staffer #3: No, toaster ovens!
VP: Wait, I want to hear Alice*'s perspective here.
Staffer #3: Toaster ovens do more and they break less often!
Several other staffers: But toasters are faster!
Staffer #5: Boo!
Staffer #3: Never mind, I withdraw my comments. I'm being booed.
VP: Careful, or you'll get voted off the island!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Guy on phone with one finger stuffed in his ear: I didn't get it, Lisa, what's your dad dying got to do with us not having anal? (pause) What? No sex at all? (pause) Not even a blowjob? Jeez, I mean, why are you acting so weird all of a sudden?
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Saagar
Accountant #1: You know, French onion soup has beef-stock in it.
Accountant #2: But it's not like, real meat, it's just… boiled.
Accountant #1: Don't tell me, tell Jesus!
Albany, New York
Colleague on phone: No, no, no. No! I'm gonna ask you, like Tina Turner asked Ike: What's love got to do with this, baby?
Fordham University
New York
Receptionist on phone: I'm never making a loaf again!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Justin
Journalist in network newsroom: Ewwww! Corpses on the beach! (pause) Oh, never mind. They were just prostitutes.
Manhattan, New York
