Chubby worker to young girl: Your hat is so cute! My niece would love it. Where did you get it?
Young girl in beaded hat: Limited Too!
Chubby worker, after girl has left: I don't have a niece. I will have that hat!
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Chubby worker to young girl: Your hat is so cute! My niece would love it. Where did you get it?
Young girl in beaded hat: Limited Too!
Chubby worker, after girl has left: I don't have a niece. I will have that hat!
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Coworker: Where's Qatar?
Office assistant in early twenties: The Middle East. It's where we were in Desert Storm.
Whole office: Oh, you were in Desert Storm?
Office assistant in early twenties: No no no no! I mean “we” as in… like… America.
New Haven, Connecticut
Overheard by: nick T.
IT guy, while waiting for coworker's computer to load: So, what kind of name is your last name, anyways?
20-something coworker: German.
IT guy: Ah… So, you ever been over to those concentration camps? The closest I ever got to was the Holocaust Museum downtown.
Reston, Virginia
Overheard by: Jen
VP, strolling into cube farm: Toasters or toaster ovens?
Staffer #1: Toasters.
Staffer #2: Toasters.
Staffer #3: Toaster ovens!
VP: Toasters, right? We already have a toaster oven.
Staffer #4: Definitely toasters.
Staffer #3: No, toaster ovens!
VP: Wait, I want to hear Alice*'s perspective here.
Staffer #3: Toaster ovens do more and they break less often!
Several other staffers: But toasters are faster!
Staffer #5: Boo!
Staffer #3: Never mind, I withdraw my comments. I'm being booed.
VP: Careful, or you'll get voted off the island!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Guy on phone with one finger stuffed in his ear: I didn't get it, Lisa, what's your dad dying got to do with us not having anal? (pause) What? No sex at all? (pause) Not even a blowjob? Jeez, I mean, why are you acting so weird all of a sudden?
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Saagar
Intern #1: I work for Toyota. I don't work for Japan.
Intern #2: Aren't they the same thing?
Washington, DC
Grad student female: My dad's a mailman.
Grad student male: Really? Mine was a milkman.
Grad student female: There was a milkman?
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: mike sereny
Colleague on phone: No, no, no. No! I'm gonna ask you, like Tina Turner asked Ike: What's love got to do with this, baby?
Fordham University
New York
Boss to secretary: Can I feel your mouse pad? (does it, then to whole office) Oh, you guys need to feel her mouse pad!
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Cubicle guy #1: So your sister had surgery?
Cubicle guy #2: Yeah, she had a hysterectomy.
Cubicle guy #1: Oh, wow, so she don't want more kids.
Cubicle guy #2: Well, she had a c-section with the last one and there was so much scar tissue in her uterus that she was having never-ending periods and just bleeding for months on end. She said she was not doing anything but bleeding and passing golf ball-sized clots and ruining her furniture, clothes, sheets. She was tired of having really bloody periods.
Cubicle guy #1: Oh.
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: Rachael
