New York

Female coworker #1: I just don’t know what to tell my kid.
Female coworker #2: What about?
Female coworker #1: Well, my six-year-old wants to know what’s the difference between a lamb and a sheep.
Female coworker #2: Oh, that’s tough. What are you going to tell her?
Female coworker #1: I dunno, probably that they are just similar species.

South Research Place
Central Islip, New York

Art director: I do it over the toilet bowl, and when I’m done, it looks like there’s a dead animal in there.

375 Hudson Street
New York, New York

Woman on phone: Could you please just act like a human being?… Oh, right, I forgot. You’re a Transformer.

42nd Street
New York, New York

Intern chick: Where’s Ithaca?
Bronx boy: It’s upstate.
Intern chick: Upstate?
Bronx boy: Way upstate.
Intern chick: So where are we?
Bronx boy: We’re southern. The very southern tip of New York.
Intern chick: OK, how far north is it?
Bronx boy: Really far north… it’s near prisons, if you really want to know the truth.

125th Street & Lenox Avenue
New York, New York

Customer: I’m looking for one of those things where I can plug it into my TV’s video and plug like four video game systems into it and push a button to switch between them.
Employee: Yeah, I don’t think we sell those.
Customer, picking up item: I’m looking for this.
Employee: Oh, we don’t sell those.
Customer: You… don’t… sell these?
Employee: No.
Customer: You’re sure?
Employee: Yeah, we definitely don’t sell those.
Customer: You don’t sell these? This thing that I picked up off your rack with a price tag on it?
Employee: No. Circuit City might carry them, though.

Best Buy
Astoria, New York

Receptionist: Thank you for calling Widgets Inc.* How may I help you?
Customer: I got a letter from my insurance company telling me to fill out a paper with my social security number on it and send it to you. Who are you?
Receptionist: We work with the government to help you with your appeal.
Customer: Oh. So you won’t be selling my social security number to anybody in Nigeria?
Receptionist: No, sir, not today.

50 Square Drive
Rochester, New York

Overheard by: We’ll sell it tomorrow

Genius on phone: Hey, man… what’s going on? So I heard that two cops shot a dude, and I was just wondering if it was you.

44th Street & Broadway
New York, New York

Overheard by: Speechless

Boss: How are your parents?
Worker #1: Fine, thanks for asking.
Worker #2: My parents are fine, too, thanks for asking!
Boss: I’m happy to hear that. When both of my parents were in the hospital at the same time, it was really hard on our whole family.

28th Street & 6th Avenue
New York, New York

Employee #1: Well, we already live together.
Employee #2: Oooh, living in sin!
Employee #3: Jesus won’t be happy with you.
Employee #1: Well, I’m Jewish, so Jesus already isn’t too happy with me.
Employee #3: That’s true.
Employee #1: I think when I get married under a chuppah, he might get upset!
Employee #2: Jesus was Jewish, though.
Employee #3: Jesus was also a carpenter.

1500 Broadway
New York, New York

Desk assistant: So what happens if we go on strike? Do we not come to work?

CBS Broadcast Center, 524 West 57th Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: This is the future of network news