Questions

Director, pointing to picture: This sister? Is she older than you?
Employee: No I’m the oldest.
Director: She looks older than you. Both your sisters do.
Employee: That’s because they both stopped taking their estrogen. They dried up.

365 W Passaic St,
Rochelle Park, New Jersey

Overheard by: Cubicle right outside

Suit #1: Yo, you tried that new Office?
Suit #2: What?
Suit #1: That new Microsoft Office 2008, 2009 or whatever.
Suit #2: Yeah.
Suit #1: That shit is hot!

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: algernon

Male coworker: I'm taking a Zumba class at the gym tonight.
Female coworker, deadpan: Isn't that what women do?
Male coworker, ignoring: They have this one thing where they make you link arms, and everyone is all covered in sweat.
Female coworker, still deadpan: You're going to get ringworm.

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

Black guy: What would you say if I said I wanted to get a Mystic Tan?
Tanning consultant: Oh, you could. It would give you a nice glow.
Black guy: You’re not even going to discourage me?! I would never get a spray on tan. The blacker you are, the higher people assume your crime rate is.

North 222 Plaza
Reading, Pennsylvania

Oblivious sales rep to gay tech: Do you know how lucky you are, the only guy in here with all these women?

Waukesha, Wisconsin

Woman #1: Hey!
Woman #2, coming out of the employee restroom: Hey! Oh, I was just thinking about you!
Woman #1: Wait, weren't you just in the restroom?

Bobst Library, NYU

Office girl #1: She's in heat, so she's all swollen, and Bostons get gross swollen.
Boss: That's probably why she was running around town.
Office girl #2: I thought it was only males that run off when they're horny?
Boss: Nah, girls are whores, too.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Overheard by: freudian flip

Manager: So there was this one time I spent $600 on snack foods.
Clerk #1: What?
Manager: Yeah, my friend and I went to the grocery store and bought a ton of food, but we also decided to bring along his cat in a backpack, and then we let him out in the store because we figured he was old and wouldn't escape…but he did. We lost him in the store, and then we left.
Clerk #2: You just left the cat behind?!
Manager: There's no stopping the Frito Bandito.

Maine Mall
Portland, Maine

Staff: Hi, this is Happy Toddler, Inc.*, how can I help you?
Customer: I bought these Happy Toddler baby wipes yesterday and instead of a single wipe you’d expect to be protruding from the center so you can pull them out, this one I got had a bunch of wipes protruding out, looking like a hernia. I had to hold down the bulk of the wipes from the center. I had to get my tweezers and fish into the depths of the container and finally pull out a wipe.
Staff: Ok, ma’am. Can I put you on hold?

Perth, Western Australia

Overheard by: only hernia-ed it

Budget director: Do you smell that? It smells like car wax. What is that smell?
Executive director: The interoffice memo…

436 6th Avenue North
Nashville, Tennessee