On the phone

Annoyed boss, barging in to cubicle: You ignored my call?
Worker, glancing at phone: Huh? Oh…yeah, a little bit.

Morris Plains, New Jersey

Elderly attorney on phone: I knew you were Armenian. Armenians always have sweet, kind, whispered, milky voices.

Newport Beach, California

Overheard by: Slaveia

Man on phone: How's your brother doing? Is he incarcerated somewhere?

Detroit, Michigan

Office assistant on the phone in cubicle: Who's your deddy, who's your deddy? Who's your deddy, who's your deddy, who's your deddy?

Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: It ain't me, that's for sure!

Office manager on phone: Well, maybe you don't want to touch it at all. You don't know until you get down there and look at it.

Sterling Heights, Michigan

Customer: Can you please put me on your do-not-call list?
Telemarketer: Sure… how do you spell that?

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Overheard by: Bored!

Busy mother on phone: No, I don't want some damn wizard to clean up my desktop. I said no, go away.

Satellite Boulevard
Duluth, Georgia

Payroll girl on phone: No, we can't find the time cards… No, she didn't lose them… Hahahahaha. (to secretary who lost time cards) George says your butt sucks major canal water!
Secretary who lost time cards: What!?

Phoenix, Arizona

Worker on phone to boyfriend: So you'll be waiting naked when I get home? Oooh…I'll come home naked.

Downers Grove, Illinois

Receptionist: I have Ms Jones* on the phone, she still has pain and wants to know if you will refill her Endocet prescription.
Doctor: No. She can have Vicodin.
Receptionist: She's allergic to Vicodin.
Doctor: Then she has to go to the hospital.
Receptionist (after speaking on telephone again): She asks if these are her only options: take medication she's allergic to or go to the hospital?
Doctor: Tell her I'm not here.

Kinnelon, New Jersey

Overheard by: Veronica at http://everythingisused.blogspot.com/