Check-out clerk: How are you doing today?
Customer: I'm good, how are you doing?
Check-out clerk: My stomach hurts. Too much drinking.
Woodinville, Washington
Overheard by: Can sympathize
Check-out clerk: How are you doing today?
Customer: I'm good, how are you doing?
Check-out clerk: My stomach hurts. Too much drinking.
Woodinville, Washington
Overheard by: Can sympathize
Help desk: Thank you for calling, this is SUU, how can I help you?
Ditzy caller: Yeah…hi, I'm having problems with your website. Whenever I enter my employment in this field it kicks back a scary warning and says invalid characters.
Help desk: Okay, we're having a bit of a glitch with that, so just go ahead and remove all of the punctuation, then it should go through no problem.
Ditzy caller: Punctuation? You mean like capital words?
Atlantic Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Ang
Admin assistant: Can you get us these things from Starbucks? (hands list to intern)
Intern: Yeah. (pauses, looks at list) This one says “no milk”…do you think that means fat free”?
Admin assistant: Uh…
W 45th
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Actually, it said 2 percent.
Intern to resident artist: Is it “Helga's Pub” or “Helga's Lounge”?
Resident artist: It's “Helga's Pub.” It stopped being a lounge when they took down the picture of Eddie Rabbit.
Broad Street
Augusta, Georgia
French intern: Um, excuse me? What is “slut”?
Coworker: Heh…I would run that by your supervisor.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rachael
Loud female coworker to other: That's a foot?! I thought it was a penis!
Somerville, New Jersey
Visitor: Excuse me, receptionist? Do you mind getting me some coffee?
VP of sales: I'm sorry, I'm not the receptionist.
Visitor: Oh, I'm sorry…you look just like one.
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: Steals your good pens…
Warehouse guy: Where's David?
David, from his cubicle: Oh, they let him go, man. He's gone.
Warehouse guy: Uhhmm…
Charlotte, North Carolina
