Coworker: I’m lucky I wasn’t raised by my mother. I’d have turned out a total slut. She’d wear high heels to her job at the sawmill.
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Innocent Bystander
Coworker: I’m lucky I wasn’t raised by my mother. I’d have turned out a total slut. She’d wear high heels to her job at the sawmill.
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Innocent Bystander
Dispatch: Got a report of a small black car going very fast.
Officer: Any other description besides “small black car”?
Dispatch: It's going very fast.
Officer: Thanks… Over.
Police Scanner
Oregon
Overheard by: Mike
Associate director, eating a hamburger: This is really good.
Executive director: Yeah, isn’t it? It’s their Angus burger. It’s like real meat.
Southern Oregon
Overheard by: research associate
Manager, to himself: I am a ball of fire. I am a BALL OF FIRE.
Far reaches of Eugene, Oregon
Co-worker #1: Man, I could use a nap.
Co-worker #2: I’m right there with you…Well, not right there with you.
111 SW Fifth Avenue
Portland, Oregon
Patient: I’m worried about this birthmark.
Doctor: Birthmark, you say? How long have you had it?
Portland, Oregon
Lab tech #1, about piece of lab equipment: You have to make love to it.
Lab tech #2: Oh! That's way too big!
Lab tech #1: You just have to finesse it.
Lab tech #2: No, seriously, that's really big.
Eugene, Oregon
Boss: Can you come help me with this Excel thing? I deleted something that I needed.
Admin: Okay. Well, you should just click “undo”.
Boss: What's “clickundo”?
Dayton, Oregon
Overheard by: glad to be in a different department
Defense attorney: Good morning prospective ladies and gentlemen — I mean, jurors.
125 East 8th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon
Overheard by: the unchosen
Hipster: You know, you can really tell who loved the Smurfs as a kid.
610 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Maggie Mae
