Office girl #1: So this girl I don't know walks in on me while I'm in the shower and says “Oh, don't worry, I'm an ex-stripper so I've seen it all.”
Office girl #2: Oh my god, what?!
Main Street
Akron, Ohio
Office girl #1: So this girl I don't know walks in on me while I'm in the shower and says “Oh, don't worry, I'm an ex-stripper so I've seen it all.”
Office girl #2: Oh my god, what?!
Main Street
Akron, Ohio
Manager #1: The new girl is Asian? Ooooh, fucky-sucky, long time!
Manager #2: I’ll have someone else show her around.
Manager #1, as manager #2 leaves office: It’s not harassment if you’re joking!
Circle Center Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
DBA to male co-worker: I want service! I’m coming to you to be serviced!
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: I thought that belonged in the men’s room…
Female clerk: Hey *Mark, you don’t sound like you want to be here today.
Male clerk: And you want to be here today?
Female clerk: You want me to rub it off for ya?
Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Overheard by: Db’s Mom
Office drone #1, shouting over cubical wall: Have you been pegged?
Office drone #2: Apparently.
New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: McNasty
Manager: Oh my god, I swear. You are on my ‘To Do’ list.
Designer: … Somebody get HR on the horn.
Route 1 South
West Windsor, New Jersey
Overheard by: the amazing copywriter
Coworker #1, drinking with group: I’ve got two kids, a daughter and a son.
Coworker #2: Oh, yeah? I didn’t know that. Does Betty* have any kids?
Coworker #3: No. Glen* has kids, though.
Coworker #1: Who?
Coworker #3: You know, Glen — over there at the table across the room. He has two daughters. They came to the office a couple times. One’s about 12, and the other’s 15 or something like that.
Top executive: Yeah, and they’re pretty hot, too! [All three coworkers silent.] Uhhh… Healthy, I mean. Good kids.
Spirit of Seattle Argosy Cruise Ferry, Lake Union
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Why Can’t I Be Deaf?
New analyst to managing director, about golf club: Hey, is your shaft stiff?
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York
Clerk #1: Oh, no, not again!
Clerk #2: What?
Clerk #1: This register! It keeps going down on me!
Gilroy, California
Overheard by: I didn’t know they had that feature
Designer #1: Ew.
Designer #2: What?
Designer #1: You know on my profile how I said I’d marry my bike if I could? I got an e-mail from a guy who says, ‘If you ever marry your bike, I want to be the seat.’
2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington