Ohio

Coworker: The normal media won't tell you the truth. That's why I listen to talk shows.

Oak Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

Overheard by: Vejewsbian

Female cube dweller: See! If I click “okay”, it'll knock me up!

Dublin, Ohio

Factory worker, checking the weather: It's raining watermelons and crack babies out there.

Blue Ash, Ohio

Overheard by: overtime on the line

Female coworker: What are you going to do with it? Eat it?
Male coworker: Well, for right now it's a pet…

Cincinnati, Ohio

Office lady on phone to son: I don't know, I think we have it on tape… on tape. Video tape. No, not DVD, video tape. It's black and rectangular, and you put it in the VCR to watch movies. The VCR?… It's… look, just wait till I get home, okay?

Picktown, Ohio

Overheard by: trying not to laugh

Project manager: With some of these clients, the question is, how educated are them?

Cleveland, Ohio

Admin assistant #1 (talking about her daughter's day camp): When I pick her up, I'm going to complain to the camp office. The counselors have these kids eating bugs as a fun, Fear Factor type of activity!
Admin assistant #2: Did your kid eat a bug?
Admin assistant #1: Yeah! Yesterday, she said she ate a butterfly!
Admin assistant #2: A butterfly? That's like eating a baby!

Fairfield, Ohio

Office girl #1: So this girl I don't know walks in on me while I'm in the shower and says “Oh, don't worry, I'm an ex-stripper so I've seen it all.”
Office girl #2: Oh my god, what?!

Main Street
Akron, Ohio

Copywriter: Man! Where am I bleeding from now?!

Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

Older female accountant: You’re looking more like Burt Reynolds each day.
Younger male accountant: He’s old, what are you saying?
Older female accountant: No, like… In a good way… When he was sexy and young.
Younger male accountant: (silence)
Older female accountant: I should get back to work.

Independence, Ohio