Oregon

Cube dweller: Zebrafish! Liquid nitrogen!

Business affairs office
Oregon

Overheard by: research sounds like fun

Administrative assistant: You know how they choose the pope with those smoke signals?
Staff member: Yeah…
Administrative assistant: It’s kind of like Groundhog’s Day, isn’t it?
Staff member: Wait, what? The movie or the holiday?
Administrative assistant: Duh, the holiday! What would the movie have to do with the pope?
Staff member: Well, what does the holiday have to do with the pope?
Administrative assistant: What?

Willamette Boulevard
Portland, Oregon

Overheard by: Jenny

Female coworker: We’re really glad you decided to come out!
Male coworker: Me, too!
Female coworker: So, is that your coming out stuff?

West 11th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon

Overheard by: Disappointed I’m just a temp

Hiring manager to IT guy: We have an applicant who says he has some python under his belt, and I was wondering if there were any questions I should ask him.

6475 SW Fallbrook Place
Beaverton, Oregon

Overheard by: IT guy

Boss: I hate rubbing my hands on that while I’m banging away, so I cover all of the crevices with tape.

Portland, Oregon

Stylist: How do you want your hair?
Customer: Short on the sides and blended with no weight line. I don’t want to look like a circumcised penis.

Great Clips
Portland, Oregon

Overheard by: Yeah – one is enough

Secretary: Does your vagina ever get so dry that it twitches?
Passing associate: Uh…

Portland, Oregon

Boss: I’m not the one who brought up fucking a goat.
Minion: I was explaining the hazards of his job.

Bend, Oregon

Coworker #1: I think he had some kind of superdog
Coworker #2: What is a Superdog?
Coworker #1: I think they are dogs that do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to retarded kids or something.
Coworker #2: Oh… okay, yeah, I know the ones.

5885 NW Cornelius Pass Road
Hillsboro, Oregon

Overheard by: Curious Listener

Colleague: You can’t pay to stuff that. I mean, that’s a handjob at best.

1150 City View Street
Eugene, Oregon