Customer: How many pieces of chicken are in the 12-piece meal?
Employee: Are you fucking with me?
Thornton, Colorado
Customer: How many pieces of chicken are in the 12-piece meal?
Employee: Are you fucking with me?
Thornton, Colorado
Coworker: Hey, do you remember how big his package was?
Boston, Massachusetts
Receptionist: I slept a lot this weekend, 'cuz I drank a lot, you know? I woke up at 5:30 yesterday afternoon, which, you know, just hurt my feelings.
Boss: What?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: freudian flip
PR coordinator: How did that conference call go?
PR director: Well, I doodled a sketch of myself jumping off the top of our parking garage. So… not good.
Ad Agency
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Mandorama
Man smoking outside office door: What year is this anyway? It’s 2006, isn’t it?
Goswell Road
London
England
Overheard by: Ava
Hick #1: Oh, Frost/Nixon. I wanted to see this.
Hick #2: What's it about?
Hick #1: It's about when Nixon gets assassinated.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Overheard by: I just work here
Male coworker #1: Well, we played with it enough, it's not hanging out as much.
Male supervisor: Yeah, if you beat on it enough, eventually these things go in.
(uncomfortable silence)
Male supervisor: Do you think I could go see it?
Male coworker #2: Yeah, just make sure you don't pull on it!
Richland, Washington
Overheard by: I think they were talking about a server…
Secretary to boss: What? The legal department is corporate?
Manhattan, New York
Female coworker, raiding candy bowl on guys desk: How do you stay away from this candy all day?
Male coworker: I thought you were a nut girl.
Female coworker: I am, but sometimes I need my hard sweets.
Little Rock, Arkansas