Inspector: So, are you still a slave to Cox?
200 Quality Circle
College Station, Texas
Inspector: So, are you still a slave to Cox?
200 Quality Circle
College Station, Texas
Worker #1: What kind of M&Ms are those?
Worker #2: Peanut.
Worker #1: Oh god, I won't want those! I don't want nuts in my mouth!
Albany, New York
Lawyer: Did you know there was a gun in the house?
Defendant: No.
Lawyer: Did you hold the gun at any point?
Defendant: No.
Lawyer: Did you threaten anyone with the gun?
Defendant: I don’t remember.
Courthouse
Phoenix, Arizona
Overheard by: not a juror
Office guy #1: Did you get the e-mail?
Office guy #2: Which one?
Office guy #1: I don't know. Someone just asked me.
Stratford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Deek
Employee #1: Hey, have the paychecks come in yet?
Employee #2: I just heard [Aaron] ask and the boss said no. We are going to have to put [Aaron] on suicide watch until the checks get here.
5760 Highway 80 East
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Operator: See that subject line? How am I supposed to know that that means?
Perturbed developer: You can open it up and read the e-mail.
Operator: Then I'd have to open multiple e-mails.
Perturbed developer: Yes, you can do that. You can open multiple e-mails.
Campus Office
St. Louis, Missouri
Attendant: Is the cat male or female?
Animal Cop: Female.
Attendant: So you checked?
Animal Cop: No, I didn’t check the plumbing, if that’s what you mean.
Attendant: So how do you know it’s a female?
Animal Cop: Because the cat was feisty. Kind of like my wife.
326 110th Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: M.L. Liu
Director: I feel like she’s staring into my soul.
Producer: It’s a good feeling, isn’t it?
35 West 4th Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: jen d.
CSR: I just took a look at the survey and noticed that at the very beginning it says “this survey is design”. Shouldn’t that say
“designed”?
IT: Probably…I cut and pasted.
CSR: Can it be changed?
IT: No, I etched that survey directly into your screen. To change it we would have to buy you a new monitor.
1 Woodland Hill Drive
Babson Park, Massachusetts