Substance Use & Abuse

Cashier #1: So, how are you?
Cashier #2: Oh, you know — I’m still really upset about–
Cashier #1: –About that whole David* thing?
Cashier #2: Yeah, I’m still really upset about us breaking up.
Cashier #1: Oh… Yeah…
Cashier #2: But he called last night and said he’ll think about getting back together.
Cashier #1: Oh, well… that’s good, isn’t it?
Cashier #2: So then I drank a whole bottle of bourbon by myself in two hours.

Perth
Australia

Lady peon #1: I just got out of de-tox …
Lady peon #2: Oh, yeah? Which one this time?

500 West Cummings Park
Woburn, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Chuck

Lawyer: Put your John Hancock on these documents, please.
Daughter: You sure this is legal? I mean, with me being your kid and all?
Lawyer: It is very legal. Far more legal than any of the drugs you have experimented with on my credit card.

Broad Street
Louisville, Georgia

Boss: I wonder what I could accomplish if I had 10 more hours in a day and a bucket of speed.

East Street
Goderich, Ontario
Canadia

Coworker #1, introducing coworker #2: His favorite thing to do on the weekend is to be loose.
Coworker #2: Lazy, not loose!

Broadway & Canal
New York City, New York

Overheard by: office peon loves her new job

Woman to man in front of soda machine: Really? You don't seem like a guy who is into DP.
Man: Yeah, that and coke.

Austin, Texas

Overheard by: I sit way too close to the kitchen.

Female cubicle dweller on phone: Without those steroids, I'm not even functionable.

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Functional Coworker

Manager #1: Shit! I can’t remember what I wanted to ask Al*…
Manager #2: If he’s gay? If he’s doing coke?

Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu

Boss: Okay [Megan], you’re going to do all the work and I’m going to go get drunk.
Admin: Okay.
Boss: Oh, why was I born? I should’ve married rich.
Admin: Rich who?

99 Wall Street
New York, NY

Female intern: I’m not sorry.
Male worker: You should be. I missed my deadline.
Female intern: You missed your deadline because you are hungover, like, every day.
Male worker: Compounded by the fact I have to mentor skanks at work!

Rochelle Park, New Jersey

Overheard by: Blondie