Pennsylvania

I Banged Them Both, Though.

Admin: Do you know who dropped this off?
Manceptionist: No
Admin: Well, then do you know what they looked like?
Manceptionist: An old white lady with curly hair.
Admin: Are you sure she wasn’t a black man, because Allan* said it was a forty-year-old black guy.
Office manager: Not unless he rolled himself in baby powder before he came in here.
Manceptionist: No. The black guy dropped off a manilla envelope and the old lady dropped off that.
Admin: This is a manilla envelope.
Manceptionist: Oh, then yeah the black guy dropped it off.
Allan: Well the black guy was definitely more attractive.
Office manager: And now we know which way you swing.

3520 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10AM Sample Sale

Buyer: It’s great. We bought a ton of old Levi’s jeans dirt cheap, scuffed them up, and are selling them for two hundred dollars apiece.
Store manager: That’s genius! How much are we paying you again?

729 East Lancaster Road
Villanova, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Genevieve

4PM Smoke Break

Supervisor: Well, when I was a kid, I was really ugly. I had the big thick glasses, I was tiny, it was pretty bad.
Underling: Wow.
Supervisor: Yeah, but it got better around ninth grade. That’s when I turned drop dead sexy.
Underling: So, when did it go away?

250 West Jackson Street
Spring Grove, Pennsylvania

5PM That’s a Wrap

Worker on phone: I don’t care if you threw up or not, I’m not canceling that dentist appointment…Well, take some Tums and go anyway. If you have to throw up again, throw up on them; who cares?

321 Norristown Road
Ambler, Pennsylvania

10AM Ad Committee

Marketing Manager: I can start working on that flyer you need as soon as you give me the copy.
Sales Manager: Copy of what?

1111 Old Eagle School Road
Wayne, Pennsyvania

1PM Lunch

Clerk: Why is there a wet floor sign on the carpet?
Supervisor: Sometimes I get excited.
Clerk: I miss working with you. You always know just what to say.

1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Jessica Kalup

1PM Lunch

Sales Manager: How am I supposed to give you the Heimlich if you have your door shut?

2176 Avenue C
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

5PM That’s a Wrap

CSR: Did you look at the fax machine?
Tech: Yes, it’s gorgeous!

203 Floral Vale Boulevard
Yardley, Pennsylvania

12PM Department Meeting?

Manager: It’s just our department in this meeting, [the other department] isn’t coming.
Supervisor: How do you know?
Manager: I went to [Brenda] and asked where her meeting is, and she said she doesn’t have a meeting.
Employee: So if this is our meeting, where are we supposed to be?
Supervisor: I reserved the conference room for my meeting, but the door is closed. Is this my meeting?
Manager: I think so. It’s nobody else’s.
Supervisor: So then, where are we going?

535 Routes 6 & 209
Milford, Pennsyvlania

9AM Back to Work

News rep #1: The reporter wants an expert on idols and graven images…Is it “graven” or “craven”? I couldn’t really hear him.
News rep #2: I don’t know, let me look it up…”Craven: Characterized by abject fear; cowardly.”
News rep #1: Hmm…I don’t know…Is it “graven” or “craven” images?
Director of News: It’s “craven”. Definitely. Those words always go together: craven images.

200 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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