New-Age employee: Yeah, my granddaughter is an Indigo Child. She can talk to the dead. But, if you ask me, her parents really aren’t doing enough with her talent.
1712 Spring Garden Street
Greensboro, North Carolina
Overheard by: Atheist cashier in the wrong line of work
Receptionist on phone: I recognized her voice before she even said anything.
Charlotte, North Carolina
VP: You are just naming random alphabetic letters.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Girl: Omigosh, I learned something today. Did you know that bras have an adjustable strap? Well, the one I’m wearing today was always loose and showing my boobies a little, but then I adjusted the strap, and whoa, let me tell ya, my boobs are like five feet higher in the air, and they are fully covered.
Career Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Overheard by: azn
Employee #1: I just don’t understand the point of Martin Luther King Day.
Emoloyee #2: Come on! It’s a big day! It celebrates when Martin Luther King freed the slaves.
Employee #1: That was Abraham Lincoln.
Employee #2: Oh. Well, it celebrates when Martin Luther King gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Employee #1: That was also Abraham Lincoln.
Employee #2: Oh. I’m not very good at history.
821 Benvenue
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Sales guy: Does anyone else smell hot dogs and sauerkraut?
Sales chick: Ummm… There’s doughnuts in the conference room.
Sales guy: I bet that’s it!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Unix Admin #1: Hey [Garth], are you hung?
Unix Admin #2: Yeah, I would say that we all are.
8001 Development Drive
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Overheard by: El Gee
Girl #1: There is so much secondhand smoke here that it’s going to kill us eventually.
Girl #2: That’s for sure!
Girl #1: It’s okay, though. I have life insurance.
Local bar
Burlington, North Carolina
Overheard by: Bartender Snickering Nearby
Coworker on phone: Fool me once, shame on… you. (pause) Fool me… the second one is where it’s my fault.
Thurston Avenue
Greensboro, North Carolina
Overheard by: Audrey
Cube dweller #1: Those guys out there in the warehouse are nice and seem to be doing well, but I don’t know that any of them are going to go out of their way to be helpful.
Cube dweller #2: You mean ‘proactive.’
Cube dweller #1: Well, yeah…
Cube dweller #2: Jack* [warehouse guy] used that term with me once — ‘proactive.’
Cube dweller #1: Uh-oh, maybe the drama out there is his fault.
Cube dweller #2: See, I always thought it was something Jessica Simpson used on her face, but he used it in a totally different way.
Cube dweller #1: … There’s no words to answer you right now…
England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
