On the phone

Coworker on phone: Yeah, I’ll be over later, but without the ticks.

Johnson City, Tennessee

Employee to manager: Do you know how to talk to deaf people on the phone?

Williamsville, New York

PA: Buffy Capri, please call the operator, Buffy Capri.
Secretary #1: Who the hell is Buffy Capri?
Secretary #2: I don’t know. An exotic dancer or a porn star?
Secretary #1: Buffy Capri, you’re wanted on the lido deck.
Secretary #3: She’s a paralegal. With a dumb name.

Atlanta, Georgia

VP on phone: What are you doing? (silence) Sounds like you’re taking a shit.

Springfield, Massachusetts

Coworker on phone: So I told our new accountant what I needed, and he looks at me and says: “But this will take me all day.” I told him: “It takes me all day to do my job too. Did you have other plans?”

3rd Avenue
New York City, New York

Phone girl #1: It has smelled like stuff in here all day.
Phone girl #2: I know, it’s like food just walked over here.

New York City, New York

School administrator on phone: Hello. Has my cat peed yet? Great!

Elite Prep School
California

Mother shouting on cell: How the fuck do I know what he eats? I’m his mother, not his nanny.

New York City Library, New York

Overheard by: Took care of my own children

Receptionist on phone: Did you finish it? What did it say? What do elephants have to do with anything?

Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Overheard by: Faith

Office worker, every time her phone rings: Fuck. What now?

Mississauga
Canadia