Intern #1: I heard that when a girl loses her virginity, her face changes.
Intern #2: You mean you can see it on her face?
Intern #1: No. Her face actually gets longer.
Intern #2: That doesn't make sense.
Intern #1: No, it's true. I've noticed it in some of my friends.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Drew Ball
Employee on phone with customer: Do we have any books about muffins? You mean how to make muffins? We have cookbooks… (pause) No? (pause) I don't think we have books… Just… About muffins.
Long Island, New York
Coworker #1: She doesn't look that old! She must have had some crazy plastic surgery.
Coworker #2: Or maybe she just emerges from underneath their beds at night and eats children's souls.
Manhattan, New York
Receptionist: It was 190 miles off the coast.
Secretary: That's like from here to Montauk.
Receptionist: I don't know. I don't know anything about geometry.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
Taxi dispatcher: Where to, miss?
Girl on cell: What?
Dispatcher: Where do you want to go?
Girl on cell, impatiently: I need to go to Huntington. (goes back to phone conversation)
Dispatcher: Excuse me miss, but whereabouts in Huntington?
Girl on cell, annoyed: What do you mean, whereabouts?
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: Morning Glory
Boss to office: Listen up, everyone. Let's just pick a design and not circle-jerk around the issue anymore.
Manhattan, New York
Man on phone, about new packaging: Well, it's a cardboard box. But it's a really nice one!
Manhattan, New York
Secretary #1: It's Friday, everybody!
Secretary #2: Shut up.
Secretary #1: Fuck you!
Secretary #2: I love you!
(both giggle)
New York City, New York
