Loud cube rat: It's just a booger! You want a booger?
Normal cube rate: No, but let me help you out. (pulls out a Kleenex)
Mebane, North Carolina
Overheard by: Horrified
Loud cube rat: It's just a booger! You want a booger?
Normal cube rate: No, but let me help you out. (pulls out a Kleenex)
Mebane, North Carolina
Overheard by: Horrified
Coworker #1: Is it in regular writing or slanty writing?
Coworker #2: “Slanty” writing? Italics?
Coworker #1: No, italics is when it is bold.
Medical Office
Durham, North Carolina
Editor: I'm gonna do this guy…
Photographer: You're gonna do this guy? That's nasty, and do I really have to take pictures?!
Editor: Why are all of our photographers perverted?
Boone, North Carolina
Woman on phone to client: Well, New Year's Day fell on the 1st this year, which messed a few things up.
Durham, North Carolina
Overheard by: Stunned
Woman in accounting who's trying to stop using profanity: Why isn't my computer working? Why won't you print my shit? (pause) Shit! (pause) Dammit!
Fort Mill, South Carolina
Staying coworker: Now that you're leaving, we're going to have to work twice as hard.
Leaving worker: I know, you have to take advantage of the opportunity. Just like I'm going to start being a dick to everyone.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Overheard by: DIV
VP, introducing new hire at annual opening community meeting: And Tina* here really likes big equipment! (faculty & staff laugh) Well, she used to work for Caterpillar.
President: Sit down, Neal*.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Communications specialist referring to recent counseling session: Oh! I just did her husband!
Marketing specialist: Well, good for you!
Government building
Raleigh, North Carolina
President: Believe me, porn makes you smart.
Cary, North Carolina
Overheard by: The Body
Coworker #1: Have you seen my pen?
Coworker #2: Nuh-uh.
Coworker #1: Someone has liberated my pen again.
England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
