Time Management

Office worker: After my father died I needed something to fill my head, so I thought “Oh! Celebrity doll collecting!”

Beacon Street
Newton, Massachusetts

Editor (talking about diabetic colleague): So, around five o'clock he walks by and he's holding a candy bar–a Snickers–and I'm like, what is this? Suicide? If he goes into convulsions, I'm just going to gather my stuff and stroll out of here.

Newsroom
Stafford, New Jersey

Overheard by: inothernews

Bar girl: So you haven't picked up in a year?
Bouncer: Look, it has to be right. I can pick up a girl, ball-gag her and fuck her in the ass, but sometimes I want to cuddle too.

Bar
Melbourne
Austrailia

Cubicle girl to coworker: Sometimes I just spin around in my chair for 15 minutes straight.
Coworker: Sometimes I trim my arm hair with my scissors.

Stockton, California

Boss, explaining how to prepare contract documents: We do this so that we’re not running around, trying to grab our asses in the middle of the night. That’s not what we want to do!

Navy Yard
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Matt

Coworker on phone: Yeah, I’ll be over later, but without the ticks.

Johnson City, Tennessee

Coworker on phone: So I told our new accountant what I needed, and he looks at me and says: “But this will take me all day.” I told him: “It takes me all day to do my job too. Did you have other plans?”

3rd Avenue
New York City, New York

Amazed boss: Look at that! He drinks water and types at the same time!

Santa Monica, California

Coworker and mother of a two and a five-year-old : Oh wait! I gotta go. I have to pick my kids up from the jail!

N Willamette Street
Coburg, Oregon

Overheard by: Glad her husband is a sheriff

Boss: For an hour I’m going to do nothing but urinate. And then? Five minutes of blogging.

Los Angeles, California