Judge: So what does your wife do for a living?
Potential juror: Nothing.
Judge: She does nothing?
Potential juror: Nope.
Judge: Do you have kids?
Potential juror: Yes.
Judge: Yeah, she does “nothing”.
265 East 161st Street
Bronx, New York
Overheard by: John
Legal secretary: And then the phone calls started to peter out.
Paralegal: What? Peter? As in “dick”?
Legal secretary: No! “Peter out” means “to come slowly to an end.”
Paralegal: Oh. (pauses) Still sounds a lot like a dick.
Greenwood, South Carolina
Overheard by: Wondering if everything has to be naughty
Female employee, from her cube: Did you get use of Mr. Purple today?
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Worker #1: So did I answer your question?
Worker #2: No, but you entertained me.
242 West 36th Street
New York, NY
Office girl #1: Did you hear that Kendra's man isn't on the Eagles anymore?
Office girl #2: They fired him?
Office girl #1: Hold on, let me check. (pause) Oh, nope. He's going to play for the Colts now.
Office girl #2: Where's that?
Office girl #1: I'm not sure.
Office girl #2: It sounds like it's somewhere cold.
Office girl #1: I have no clue.
Office girl #2: I'll google it. (pause) Indianapolis.
Office girl #1: Where's that?
Office girl #2: I don't know. I think that's north of here.
Office girl #1: Oh…
Office girl #2: Oh, it's in Indiana.
Morgantown, West Virginia
Overheard by: humble office drone
Engineer #1: You don't want me designing that machine. Not even if I was the last man on earth.
Project manager: If you were the last man on earth, who would there be to ask you to design it?
Engineer #2: The last woman on earth?
Engineer #1: I definitely wouldn't do it then. No matter what I did, she would make me wrong. Fuck that!
Paterson, New Jersey
VP: Hey, can you pop in here to chat yet?
Accounting asst: Give me just a sec…
VP: How about now? It's urgent, and I've been giving you secs all morning.
Passing by office manager: So much for last week's sexual harassment training…
Washington, DC
Overheard by: I could use some…
Tech guy: I need to update your microscope software, have you seen the dongle?
Grad student: Um… Excuse me?
Tech guy: I need to plug the dongle in to get access to your machine.
Grad student: Uh… What would… That… Look like?
Tech guy: Oh wait, never mind, I see it. Thanks!
[Tech guy leaves.]Grad student, to undergrad nearby: What the hell was he talking about?
Undergrad: I don’t know, but I feel like we were about ten seconds away from being in a very nerdy porno.
North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: LabCat
Office bimbette: Did you use your new pen yet? Did you smell it?
Broadway
New York City, New York
Elderly boss to receptionist: Where's my coffee?
Receptionist: Are your legs broken?
Elderly boss: My third one is! Now get my coffee!
Southfield, Michigan
