North Carolina

Cube rat #1 reading email: Is… Jason Smith* kin to Jason Ellis*?
Cube rat #2, in coddling tone: [Sigh] Just because their first names are the same doesn’t mean they are related.
Cube rat #1: Oh, okay.

England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

General manager: I don't know how you use this thing, with all the damn buttons everywhere.
Reporter: Well, that's the first thing I learned in typing class…where the keys are.

Waynesville, North Carolina

Overheard by: Just an editor

Sales guy: He was from another country. A made-up country, though.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Tech: You can get a manual off their website.
Supervisor: In English?
Tech: No… But it has pictures!

Charlotte, North Carolina

Overheard by: Robert

Assistant: Whose phone is that? Who has rap music on their ringtone?
Sales guy, across room: Is that mine?
Assistant: Seriously? Is that your phone? [Sales guy runs to his desk.]Office manager: It sounds like porn…

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

UPS guy: I think you would be pretty surprised by my stool attack.

4140 Clemmons Road
Clemmons, North Carolina

Overheard by: Fellow UPS Employee

Co-worker: Wow! Look at the wind!

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Sales person: Hmmm… Are you doing the billing today since Sherry* is out?
Trainee: I’m going to try.
Sales person: Well, don’t mess up my billing or I’ll kick your ass.
Trainee: Promise?
Sales person: Oh, yes.
Trainee: My pain is your pleasure.
Sales person: You and I will get along fine.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

Avis clerk: I just love your little beanie!
Jewish guy: It’s actually called a yarmulke. I’m Jewish, and all Jewish men wear them.
Avis clerk: Oh! Well, you have yourself a merry Christmas!

Charlotte Airport, North Carolina

Overheard by: Renjeau

Tech #1: Is Victor* here?
Tech #2: No–if I'm here it means Victor's in Chapel Hill.
Tech #1: Oh, I was going to tell him there's a butterfly outside.
Tech #2: A butterfly?
Tech #1: I know how he likes them.
Tech #2: Is it big?
Tech #1: It's a good one.
Tech #2: I'd like to go look.
(they both leave)

North Carolina