Insurance salesman: Maternity is covered as a sickness under this policy.
39th Avenue
Hollywood, Florida
Insurance salesman: Maternity is covered as a sickness under this policy.
39th Avenue
Hollywood, Florida
Black female coworker: Oooh, honey, I love me some fags. Fags is the best girlfriends.
White queer coworker: That’s ’cause we all want to be black women!
White female coworker: Can the rest of us get workplace diversity hours for listening to this shit?
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: Giggling in my cube
CFO: There has to be a way to gather that information.
Financial analyst: But what you are asking me to do is simply guessing. I don’t have tools to gather information that can’t be proven!
CFO: Hey! Socrates only had a stick and sand!
Fourth Street
Berkeley, California
Overheard by: dude
Female worker #1: You know he’s doing a show here, right?
Female worker #2: Oh, someone get me a tissue, my panties are wet.
Barnes & Noble
Greenfield, Wisconsin
Overheard by: darkhorse
Female clerk: Hey *Mark, you don’t sound like you want to be here today.
Male clerk: And you want to be here today?
Female clerk: You want me to rub it off for ya?
Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Overheard by: Db’s Mom
Investment broker: My kid’s a socialist. He’d rather hang out with his friends than ski with us.
Portland Square
Portland, Maine
Editor-in-chief, about how urgent a specific task is: Fairly urgent, but in a leisurely sort of way.
Mississauga
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Confused, but in an understanding sort of way
Rep #1: Where is the Ford script?
Copywriter, playing flash bubble game: I am working on it right now.
[one minute later]Rep #2: Where is the taxi script?
Copywriter, playing flash bubble game: I am working on it right now.
[less than a minute later]Rep #3: Where is the restaurant chain script?
Copywriter, playing flash bubble game: I am working on it right now.
Rep #3: At least turn the volume down dude…
Robertson Street
Fortitude Valley
Australia
Little girl: We’re going to the three floor.
Mom: The third floor.
Little girl: Third floor. Mommy, what’s on the third floor?
Mom: The cafeteria. I’m gonna see if they can get you a salad instead of the crap you eat.
[doors open, they get off and start walking away.]Little girl: I eat chocolate two times every day, and there’s nothing you can do to change that.
Avenue of the Americas
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Duncan
Editor-in-chief: So I can’t say “pubic” on one of our editorials?
Opinion editor: No.
Editor-in-chief: And you won’t let me say “Anal osculation?”
Opinion editor: No!
E Pratt St
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Working at
