Co-worker: I do find that when I wear my glasses I’m menaced by street hoodlums more.
176 Grand Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: Eli Mavros
Co-worker: I do find that when I wear my glasses I’m menaced by street hoodlums more.
176 Grand Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: Eli Mavros
Network News Producer: Why do people live in trailers if they know a hurricane is likely to blow through?
CBS News
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY
Co-worker #1: Would it be wrong if we left to get breakfast?
Co-worker #2: Why would it be wrong?
Co-worker #1: Well, it’s only 9 o’clock.
Co-worker #2: So?
Co-worker #1: I don’t know. It seems like maybe we should wait a little bit.
Co-worker #2: No way! I’ve been here since 8:30. I’ve worked enough.
Co-worker #1: All right. Let’s go, then.
Co-worker #2: Hold on. I just painted my nails. Takes forever to dry.
350 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Coworker on phone: Scabies. (pause) No… Scabies. (pause, then louder) Scabies! (louder) S-c-a-b-i-e-s!!
(everyone in office looks at him)
Coworker, looking at coworkers and shaking head: Sorry, everyone!
Manhattan, New York
Coworker: I've been so funny all day that it's not even funny.
Hawthorne, New York
Overheard by: evildead1971
Co-worker #1: I think the pills of my dreams would allow me to eat whatever I wanted and never get above a size 4.
Co-worker #2: Those already exist. They’re called laxatives.
147 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Jess
Patient #1 to family member on Skype: Yeah, they're taking real good care of me. (to nurse) Say hi to my sister.
(nurse leans in to computer screen, waves hello)
Family member on Skype: Is he being a good patient?
Patient #2, on other side of curtain: He's cryin' like a little bitch!
Stony Brook Hospital
Long Island, New York
Female receptionist to male receptionist: Since you're going to lunch in 20 minutes, can you fill up my water bottle?
Male receptionist: Can you blow me?
Avenue of the Americas
New York City, New York
Overheard by: gb
Waitress to another: No! There’s a reason I don’t eat the coleslaw! No!
Cafe
Salt Point, New York
Overheard by: Not eating it either
Coworker #1: The side of my lips are dry!
Coworker #2: I put ChapStick when that happens to me!
Coworker #1: I'm doing it!
Coworker #2: Oh, man…I got ChapStick on my mustache!
Coworker #1: Girl, you are not suppose to say that!
36th & 8th
New York City, New York
Overheard by: LIL Papi Chulo K.L.
