Jittery editor, using nicotine inhaler: This thing is great. It really works.
Reporter: How long has it been since your last cigarette?
Jittery editor: Oh, I’m still smoking, too.
400 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Jittery editor, using nicotine inhaler: This thing is great. It really works.
Reporter: How long has it been since your last cigarette?
Jittery editor: Oh, I’m still smoking, too.
400 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland
20-something coworker on phone: You know, if you spray keyboard duster in your ear, it gives you a mega head rush.
745 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Say What?
Peon: Hey, can you help me with something?
Frazzled coworker: Honestly, I’m too wasted right now.
84th Street and Broadway
New York, New York
Overheard by: sagehen
Manager: … And that’s why junkies are attractive.
1st Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida
Overheard by: Django
Grunt #1: Is that a wine bottle in the front seat of your car?
Grunt #2: Yes. I like to drink on my way to work.
Owings Mills, Maryland
Overheard by: widget
English coworker: I’m just going outside to suck on a fag.
Irvine, California
Overheard by: James
Chick on cell: So, I’m clearing room in the back for more stock, and those fuckers have a case of beer back there…
Mall
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canadia
Overheard by: Christmas shopper wanted to know what store she works at…
Busser: I’m working for Bob* tonight.
Manager #1: You smell like pot, man. You’re not working.
Manager #2: It’s three in the afternoon. What time did you get high?
Busser: When’s Maury on?
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu