Violence

Beauty shop owner: I need to know what day you'll be in to clean the floors, and you'd better stick to it or I'll kill you.
Floor cleaner guy: I've got to die sometime… It might as well as be by your hands.

Conroe, Texas

Female quality engineer: There is a fine line between wanting to hurt someone and having fun with them.

Texas

Employee: Did you punch your mother?
Manager: You know…some mothers just deserve to be punched.

Arizona

Overheard by: George

Sales manager: You know, they just don't have that old-time VD anymore. Now it just kills you or, makes your dick explode.

Bonner Springs, Kansas

Receptionist: For us it was never really about the torture. It was more about the ping pong, or table tennis if you will.

Hewitt, Minneapolis
Minnesota

Perky woman: So, my friend’s neighbor was totally murdered on her front yard.
Man: Cool!

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Overheard by: Super grad student

Visitor from Boston: I had to break my daughter of her Boston accent.
Coworker: Are you going to go home and slap your daughter tonight?

Manhattan, New York

Boss to staff: If you write it right, parental abuse of teenage girls can be funny.

Burbank, California

Disgruntled programmer: I would cut the head off a chicken right now and perform a Santeria ritual in order to get this program to work!

Newtown, Pennsylvania

Supervisor: I think my bird is dying. What should I do?
Coworker #1: Put it in a bag and tie it to your car exhaust.
Coworker #2: Put it in the freezer.
Coworker #3: Put in a bag and whack it.
Supervisor: You people scare me… Go back to work.

Chicago, Illinois