Receptionist: With a “c”?
(pause)
Receptionist: Catherine with a “c”?
(pause)
Receptionist: Oh, you mean “k” as in “cat”!
Seguin, Texas
Overheard by: Vivian
Receptionist: With a “c”?
(pause)
Receptionist: Catherine with a “c”?
(pause)
Receptionist: Oh, you mean “k” as in “cat”!
Seguin, Texas
Overheard by: Vivian
Guy with wallet-chain and flannel shirt: The only difference between me and Kurt Cobain is I don’t have a heroin addiction. Or a shotgun.
3rd floor, Accenture building
Austin, Texas
Employee #1: Is the new copier up and running yet?
Employee #2: It's been plugged in since Wednesday, but we're not using it yet. I think it's charging.
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: On The Wrong Planet
Sales assistant #1: Man, I hate Glen* — becomes a manager and gets all crazy.
Sales assistant #2: What’s he makin’ you do?
Sales assistant #1: Sweep the whole service alley! Man, sometimes I just wanna hit that guy. I’ve been here two years, and he makes me, the head sales assistant, do the crap work.
Sales assistant #2: [Stares.]Sales assistant #1: He’s right behind me, isn’t he?
Sales assistant #2: Yup.
3709 East Central Texas Expressway
Killeen, Texas
Executive, referring to salesperson: What purpose does it serve to have her review these files?
Production manager: What purpose does it serve to have her work here?
Executive: Let me ask again. What's the point of giving her these files?
Production manager: I'll answer your question if you answer mine.
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: Art Dictator
Coworker: Somebody’s getting arrested today, and it isn’t going to be me!
1218 Webster St.,
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: Stacy Lewis
Blonde office drone: There's this plug that doesn't seem to go to anywhere, but when I pull it out from the wall thing, my desk lights turn off… I wonder why that is?
South Autin, Texas
Office dweller on phone: You get Snoop. We get Jon Bon Jovi.
Austin, Texas
Young white girl: You need to wear sunscreen. My mommy told me that skin gets dark if you don’t wear sunscreen.
Young black girl: I was BORN dark.
Young black boy: Me, too.
Young white girl: Really?
Young black boy: I wear sunscreen, too.
Young white girl: You were born that way? So it’s not the sun? Really?
Preschool
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: Amused Pre-K teacher
Woman on intercom: David*, to the back office. David*, to the back office, please.
David*on intercom: No, I don't want to. No, I don't want to.
Kinko's
San Antonio, Texas
Overheard by: The Flying Aspidistra
