On the phone

Librarian on phone: I've talked to you when you're high. It's not all that much fun!

Amherst, Massachusetts

Office peon on phone: Look, I'm busy right now so I'll have to call you back. What's your phone number?
Stupid office peon: Ummm… I don't know. I never call myself.

Nashville, Tennessee

Loud lady on phone: Hi, are you dead yet?

West Lafayette, Indiana

Overheard by: Rachel S.

Office assistant on phone: No, you have never been able to use funding for summer expenses. (pause) When did this happen? (pause) January is not summer!

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Attorney on phone: But it doesn't say anything about homosexuality in here!

Norwalk, Connecticut

Guy on cell: So I was online last night looking at dicks…

Newport News, Virginia

Annoying coworker on phone, loudly: Yes, just a wax. (pause) What's a Hollywood?? (pause, then softly) Oh, no, hang on… No, I don't think so.

Johannesburg
South Africa

Overheard by: Gael

Lindsey Naegle Really Is a Sexual Predator

Aggressive advertising program manager: Yeah, then on the conference call we can tell them about all the ways we can go to malls and touch the kids!

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Female operations manger, on phone with another woman: He's wrong, he's wrong… becuase he's a man!

Woburn, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Choo Choo Charlie

Man on phone, about new packaging: Well, it's a cardboard box. But it's a really nice one!

Manhattan, New York