Female worker, at a work-sponsored pizza party: My older brother picked on me all the time. Play-fighting, just rough-housing, you know. He is deceased, now.
Insensitive female worker: Because she killed him!
San Francisco, California
Female worker, at a work-sponsored pizza party: My older brother picked on me all the time. Play-fighting, just rough-housing, you know. He is deceased, now.
Insensitive female worker: Because she killed him!
San Francisco, California
Employee #1: Otis Redding.
Employee #2: Otis Redding? Who's that?
Employee #3: Isnt' that the guy from Andy Griffith? The drunk guy?
Employee #1: No. Otis Redding sang that “Dock of the Bay” song. His dad shot and killed him.
Employee #2: No. That's Marvin Gaye.
Employee #1: Marvin Gaye? Who's that?
Van Buren, Arkansas
Reporter on phone: I'm calling about Davy Crockett. You don't know him? Didn't he attack you with a machete last week? Right. Well, he died. Yeah. You heard about that? Right. So you do know him.
Keene, New Hampshire
Coworker on phone: Okay, don't punch any prisoners in the face.
Fordham University
Manhattan, New York
Coworker: Women are very Gestalt, you have to take the whole thing. If you start taking just the parts, you're going to end up on the evening news.
Branchburg, New Jersey
IT guy #1: How do you get yourself $400,000 in debt?
IT guy #2: Yeah, and if you are that much in debt, why would you kill yourself?
IT guy #1: Yeah, just file for bankruptcy and wait for your Obama dollaz to come in.
Sparks, Maryland
Overheard by: Dial
Resident #1: That man is such a bloody pain in the ass! We should just hit him in the head with his cane!
Resident #2: And then chain him to his bed so we don't have to see him anymore.
Resident #1: I'm in.
Resident #2: Me too. Right after I finish my tea.
Regina
Canadia
Girl: My cats chewed through my computer's power cord this morning. (sighs) I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new one.
Apple guy: Or you could use that bullet to shoot your cats!
(girl stares at him)
Apple guy: Uh… I take back that comment heartily.
Apple Store
Portland, Maine
Overheard by: Misaki
Grad student #1: Wow, the boss-lady is pretty laid back today. She hasn't even harassed me once since I came in this morning!
Grad student #2: I dunno, dude. When she's this chilled out, I just assume that somewhere there are dozens of puppies that have been kicked.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: LabCat
