Offers and requests

Some Male Friendships Trivialize Themselves

Office guy #1: Are you coming over tonight?
Office guy #2: Yeah, I'll be there.
Office guy #1: Okay, I'll pull it out and wipe it off.

Regina
Canadia

Overheard by: Vince

IT guy: Hey, do you have any DVDs?
Communications manager: Like blank ones?
IT guy: No, recorded, I need to test something.
Communications manager: I don't have anything, but Bob* might have some porn.
IT guy, thrilled: All right!

Sex Toy Compan
Las Vegas, Nevada

Overheard by: Sex Writer Goddess

Meeting speaker: Either get on the train or get off the boat.

Washington, DC

Matt: Later we are getting cupcakes…
Jen: Why, is it your birthday?
Matt: Sort of it… it’s my half birthday. So are you in?
Jen: What do you mean half birthday?
Matt: Well my birthday is December 26th.
Jen: Ok -I’ll ask Stacey if she wants in.

Madison Avenue
New York City, New York

Secretary: I’m going to Target at lunch. You need anything?
V.P.: Underwear! I always need underwear!
Secretary: Um…I’m not really comfortable with that.

1501 Woodfield Road
Schaumburg, Illinois

Overheard by: Pirate Wench

Manager: Do you have any pasties?
Office girl: What?
Manager: Pasties. You know, to write a note on.
Office girl: You mean a Post-it? Pasties are what strippers wear over their nipples.
Manager: God bless strippers.

Costa Mesa, California

Office lady: Whatever happened with your belly button?
Boss: Oh, it still hasn't healed. You wanna see?
Office lady: Ew! No!

Washington, DC

Overheard by: CreativeBunny

Customer: You mean you don’t have any wheelchair seats left for that matinee?
Assistant manager: No ma’am. We have a lot of senior citizen groups that come to matinees and they tend to fill up our wheelchair seats.
Customer: Well, I would say put me and my husband in two regular seats, but he doesn’t have any legs!
Husband: It’s true, I don’t have any legs!
Assistant manager: Ummm, ok. Let me see what I can do for you.

Shenandoah University Theatre ticket office
Winchester, Virginia

Overheard by: Jennifer Ellerbe

Navy commander to his three-year old who’s locked herself in the connecting bathroom again: Susie*, open this door at once! I command you!

Visiting officer’s quarters, Tachikawa Air Force base
Tokyo
Japan

Boss on phone: Are you calling for a trumpet or are you trying to fix me up with someone?

Miami, Florida