Secretary: Y’all like sittin’ in the dark?
Co-worker #1: You just gotta get used to it. The lights are broken.
Secretary: So y’all really like to sit in the dark.
Co-worker #2: Well, I think they went out over the weekend.
Secretary: So y’all really like to sit in the dark…Just like in the Underground Railroad.
1425 K Street NW
Washington, DC
Overheard by: callmeahab
Cube dweller #1: So then “groom,” like the horse kind.
Cube dweller #2: Uh, okay, or like the husband.
Cube dweller #3: Or the thing you clean your kitchen with.
Cube dweller #2: Yeah, that's a “broom.”
Washington, DC
Overheard by: emc
Proofreader, warily: Your “Cat Peed on my Banjo” song sounds suspiciously like “Dueling Banjos”!
Washington, DC
President of the board: Okay, what else do we have to go over? Are we finished here?
Boss: Yes, I think we’ve shot our wad.
Washington, DC
VP: Hey, can you pop in here to chat yet?
Accounting asst: Give me just a sec…
VP: How about now? It's urgent, and I've been giving you secs all morning.
Passing by office manager: So much for last week's sexual harassment training…
Washington, DC
Overheard by: I could use some…
Literature professor: I don’t mean to turn Baudelaire into a snuff film… I mean, a slasher film! A slasher film! Oh, never mind.
Batelle Building, University, Massachusetts Avenue
Washington, DC
Overheard by: nic
Office Worker: He was like, “I spent a long time filling out these forms, so you bastards had better donate to the combined federal campaign.”
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE
Washington, DC
Employee to another: It does not exist. San Fransisco does not exist.
Washington, DC
Overheard by: then where was i?
Oblivious attorney: Ugh, it's just so big! It's disgusting!
Washington, DC
Meeting speaker: Either get on the train or get off the boat.
Washington, DC
