Receptionist: It was 190 miles off the coast.
Secretary: That's like from here to Montauk.
Receptionist: I don't know. I don't know anything about geometry.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
Receptionist: It was 190 miles off the coast.
Secretary: That's like from here to Montauk.
Receptionist: I don't know. I don't know anything about geometry.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
Office manager, ordering markers from supply catalog: What about this one?
Receptionist: Yeah. Anything that says “magnum” must be good.
Office manager: Yep.
Receptionist: I just need something big and fat.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Young receptionist: So what are you wearing to the party?
Older male boss: Depends.
El Dorado Hills, California
Office worker to receptionist: I would have been here an hour and a half ago but the goats got out.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Hotel guest: Do you have any forks?
Girl at front desk: Yeah, how many would you like?
Hotel guest: Two. But they're forks, right? Not sporks? You know what sporks are, right?
Girl at front desk: Yes, they're hybrid spoon/fork things.
Hotel guest: Yeah… Reminds me of when I was in prison.
Hawthorne, California
Overheard by: …what?
Secretary: She asked me to file these but I'm not quite sure how she wants them.
Lazy old receptionist: Just do it wrong and she'll quit asking you to do stuff. That's what I do.
Crown Point, Indiana
Overheard by: the one that usually asks
Sales rep, about receptionist's coat: What kind of fur is that? Gerbil?
Receptionist: No, I think it's some kind of fox, but it's spelled “f-a-u…”
Los Angeles, California
Receptionist, over intercom: Would anyone with a banana please come to the front desk?
Boston, Massachusetts
Sassy receptionist: You are going straight to hell with gasoline drawers!
Navy Yard
Washington, DC
Office worker, breezing past receptionist's desk: Hi!
Receptionist, furiously rubbing nose: Got an itchy nose, wanna fight?
Portland, Maine
Overheard by: Spydoggie
