Boss on phone: Are you calling for a trumpet or are you trying to fix me up with someone?
Miami, Florida
Boss on phone: Are you calling for a trumpet or are you trying to fix me up with someone?
Miami, Florida
Doctor, on conference call: I might be teaching you to suck eggs…
Alexandria, Virginia
Wishful thinking peon on phone: Yes, I can meet with this Simon guy. It’s not that Simon from American Idol, is it? Oh? That’s too bad… I guess I’ll still meet with him, though.
111 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Hear No Evil
Boss on cell: Is T&A an option? Uh… No, I meant “time and expense.” Is T&E an option?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: It's ALWAYS an option
Man on phone: Fuck your ass, bitch! I don’t give a shit about you! Try saying something nice to me!
600 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Doctor Whom
Boss man's phone cell on auto text-to-speech mode: Taint defense for dummies.
Baffled employee: What did you phone just say?
Silver Lake, California
Coworker on cell: You've spent twenty minutes telling me how hammered you've been for the last eight days, and now you're drinking Bourbon in my bed, something I've never done…
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Office drone on phone: There's a woman out there. Oh, that's not a woman, that's the governor.
Providence, Rhode Island
Overheard by: evelyn
British coworker on cell: You mean the gar-age? I know you people say “gar-age.” And also “al-um-min-I-um.” That's how we should be pronouncing it. The language of Shakespeare.
Washington, DC
Supervisor on speakerphone: Hold on a sec, I've got another call. Hello, this is Mark*.
Caller: Yes, am I in the right place?
Supervisor: I don't know, who were you trying to reach?
Caller: Is this the number for the internet?
Supervisor: No, I'm sorry, this is a state agency.
Caller: This isn't the internet?
Supervisor: Nope, sorry.
Caller: Oh, darn, okay bye.
Supervisor (back to the other line): Well, that was a first.
Newington, Connecticut
Overheard by: but please give it my regards. I'm a huge fan.
