Office girl #1: Oh, I love Jane magazine.
Office girl #2: What’s that?
Office girl #1: It’s a chick magazine, but not so girly. That’s why I like it.
Office girl #3: That’s why I hate it — it has, like, articles.
45 West 45th Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: RaRa
Rep: The King of Nepal has declared martial law and has cut off all
communication, so I cannot check the status of that rug order…
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY
Middle-aged suit #1: Rob always wears the same suit every day, no matter what.
Middle-aged suit #2: Skank.
Avenue of the Americas
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Has lower standards
Suit: It was 6 hours of nonstop powerdrinking. My wife was at a Christmas party and asked me to pick her up, and I said, “Even I would not get behind the wheel now!”
350 Madison Ave.
New York, NY
Young blonde secretary: My boyfriend’s in jail. He’s got another year to go.
Avuncular man: Why do you need this loser? Is this the best you can do?
Young blonde secretary: I don’t know. I guess I should break up with him, but I don’t know why I don’t.
Avuncular man: How can you not know? If you saw a child smearing chocolate all over the walls and you asked him, ‘Why are you doing that?’ and he said, ‘I don’t know,’ what would you say to him?
Young blonde secretary: I’d say, ‘Stop it!’ … So I guess I should just stop it, huh?
Avuncular man: And if he didn’t stop, you’d slap the shit out of him, wouldn’t you?
Young blonde secretary: Yeah… But I don’t know why I don’t stop.
Avuncular man: Well, don’t take this the wrong way, but if you were my daughter, I’d slap some sense into you.
Young blonde secretary: Yeah, my father has tried that.
Avuncular man: Apparently he didn’t slap you hard enough.
Secretary’s boss, walking into room: Are you talking about your boyfriend again?
Lawyer’s office
Rockville Center, New York
Overheard by: Big Larry
Judge: I’m not here wielding a mace. You know what a mace is, right?
Attorney #1: That’s the spiked ball at the end of a chain, right?
Attorney #2: In medieval times it was at the end of a stick.
Attorney #1: Well, popes and kings had one at the end of a stick.
Judge: As a symbol of royal or divine authority.
Attorney #2: But it was also a weapon at the end of a chain.
Judge: So, the mace served as both a symbol and a weapon.
Ghetto teen on trial: Cops sprayed dat in my cousin’s face.
District Court
Ronkonkoma, New York
Overheard by: Big Larry
White guy: I come from a town of only 400.
Black girl: Whoa! That’s weird. Your town was probably started by a brother and sister or something.
White guy: Actually, there’s not a single brotha or sista in my town.
Black girl: What?
White girl: Oh, God.
Black girl: What do you mean? Is everyone in your town an only child?
White guy: No, there aren’t any brothuhs or sistuhs. You know?
Black girl: I don’t get it.
White girl: That’s probably for the best.
One Park Place
Elmira, New York
Overheard by: Shannon
Law Firm Guy: What’s a tsunami?
100 Maiden Lane
New York, NY
Female employee #1: I wish murder was legal. There is one rotten person I would definitely out for this world.
Female employee #2: Just one?
Syracuse, New York
Overheard by: I feel the same…
Coworker: Wait…John Ratzenberger?
430 Main Avenue
Norwalk, Connecticut
Maintenance guy: They shoulda had a Puerto Rican pope. Barbecue every weekend!
335 East 45th Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: Palaverist
