Colleague on phone: I want to got to Mexico in May, but I don't want to miss Cinco de Mayo.
Boston, Massachusetts
Colleague on phone: I want to got to Mexico in May, but I don't want to miss Cinco de Mayo.
Boston, Massachusetts
Lawyer on cell: Why do you call me when you’re trying to name your cats, but you don’t call me when you’re served with a subpoena?
509 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Caller: I'm calling to talk to the woman I talked to last week. I can't remember her name.
(pause) I don't know…did I call the right place?
Richmond, Virginia
(desk girl is on long, heated phone call with same client for fifth time before noon, hangs up, and sighs)
Coworker: Do you hear them in your sleep?
West Main Street
Aspen, Colorado
Cube dweller on phone: Hahaha… yeah, I can just imagine them literally chasing you around, and smearing you with that stuff!
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: I don't want to get smeared
Cubicle rat on phone: I expect a white man to lie to me, not a black guy.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Greg
Teacher on phone with parent: Mrs. Jones*, I’m not saying Billy* cheated. All I’m saying is he had a sheet of paper with the answers to the test on the floor under his desk, and every few minutes he leaned over and looked at it. And I don’t allow that kind of studying.
Bayport, New York
Suit on cell: I don't want you shooting blanks in the dark…
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Traci C
Engineer on phone to pumper: You gotta have the sucking and the blowing. (pause) Does he have liquid? (pause) That's why you gotta keep on blowing and sucking. (pause) Yeah, great, thanks.
Dallas, Texas
Child welfare worker on cell: I won’t be over at my client’s place long. I just need to go there real quick and see her child naked… Maybe I shouldn’t say this in the middle of a mall.
Woodland Hills Mall
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Overheard by: Bob
