Older saleswoman, picking up the phone: Hello, this is Sue. How may I help you? Yes? Oh, no! Oh, dear! Definitely! Absolutely, just bring it on in and I’ll take care of it for you. No problem! I’m soooo sorry. I am so, so, so sorry!! [Hangs up phone.] I’m sorry your mother was a prostitute.
Department Store
Omaha, Nebraska
Overheard by: lisa
Female employee on phone: …will you outsource the foreskin?
18th Street & Park Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Mikey Z
Manager on phone: Does panting count as a response?
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Woman on phone to client: Well, New Year's Day fell on the 1st this year, which messed a few things up.
Durham, North Carolina
Overheard by: Stunned
Boss on the phone: What religion is he?…That makes sense that he drives a Jeep then.
Northbrook, Illinois
Overheard by: AHHH!!
Woman on phone: I got a letter from the insurance agency. What should I do?
Lawyer: What does the letter say?
Woman: Aren't you a lawyer?
Lawyer: Yes, but I need to see what the letter says.
Woman: You're e a lawyer. You should know these things.
Lawyer: Without reading it, I don't know.
Boston, Massachusetts
Curator on cell: So, have you found the dead artist yet?
Art gallery
London
England
Boss on phone: We really want to focus on your company in 2009. The alternative energy sector is expanding at an incredible rate, and I… (pause) Really? Rape?
Williamstown
Australia
Overheard by: Kate
Chick: Hello?
Dude: Hey.
Chick: Take me off speakerphone!
Dude: [Picks up phone] Don’t order me around like that!
Chick: Ha, ha… I like how you took me off speakerphone first and then told me not to order you around.
Dude: You are such a princess… Am I on speakerphone?
Chick: Yup.
Dude: Jerk.
403 & Highway 10
Mississauga, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: who’s the boss?
Coworker on phone: You’d be an amazing human being if you brought me some nibbles on your way here. If not, then you’re clearly the mongoloid I always suspected you to be.
401 West Clarendon Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
