Boss on phone: I'll tell you what you can do. (pause) You can tell me how to spell “urinalysis.”
Richmond, Virginia
Overheard by: maggie
Boss on phone: I'll tell you what you can do. (pause) You can tell me how to spell “urinalysis.”
Richmond, Virginia
Overheard by: maggie
Sales guy on phone: I got it excited and pulled it out!
Greenwood Village, Colorado
Engineer on phone, in happy voice: Kevin! Congratulations! (pause, then in sad voice) Oh… my condolences.
Fishkill, New York
Overheard by: Bored Engineer
HR manager, as phone rings during conversation: I don't know where my daughter is. That's a bit of a problem since she's only eight… I should take this call.
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: #1mom
Admin on phone: You can go in the back door… It's a big back door and you've earned it.
Ottawa
Canadia
Colleague on telephone: It's the people from the matrix you created!
Baku
Azerbaijan
Manager on phone with customer service: If they shit on me, I'll piss on them.
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Cue
Cube girl, answering phone: This is Julia*.
Voice on phone: Pussy, pussy.
Cube girl: Oh my god, John*! (her husband) I have you on speaker!
Anchorage, Alaska
Receptionist on phone: It's a tough world out there. Like they say, it's a doggy-dog world.
San Jose, California
Coworker to another: I was going to get you back by putting your phone in the fridge. However, I opened that fridge… and it was like death in there.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma