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
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.
Coworker on phone: He had two career ideas: one was to start an internet porn site, and the other was to become a priest.
Syracuse, New York
Catholic seminary library employee: Are you going to interview Jane's friend for the position?
Catholic seminary library supervisor: No, I decided she wasn't qualified enough.
Catholic seminary library employee: That's a relief.
Catholic seminary library supervisor, surprised: Why do you say that? Don't you like her?
Catholic seminary library employee: It's just that… Have you ever overheard any of their phone conversations?
Catholic seminary library supervisor: No.
Catholic seminary library employee: It's like they're in a competition over who has the most intense visions of the blessed Virgin Mary. We already get enough of that shit.
California
Overheard by: bless me for I have sinned
Phone drone, to subscriber on the phone: Every piece of information subscribers tell me I basically file away in my head as a little piece of information.
Technology Drive
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: captainobvious
Receptionist on phone: I recognized her voice before she even said anything.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Loud guy on cell: No way! Last time they didn’t charge me with a felony!
Blue Grass Airport
Lexington, Kentucky
Overheard by: Glad to be leaving the States
