Words

Sales #1: Have you called any previous customers yet?
Sales #2: I’ve called customers till I’m blue in the ass.

973 Opelika Road
Auburn, Alabama

Overheard by: Rob Byrd

Boss: So, what do you like about working here?
Employee: Well, I really like that working here, you have your hands on the pulse of campus.
Boss: I'm sorry, did you say “the balls of campus”?

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Overheard by: Didshereallythinkshesaidthat?

Customer: I know you wouldn’t carry Jell-O, but do you have something exactly like it but called something else?

Whole Foods
Silver Spring, Maryland

Admin assistant: What do you mean you don’t have sex? You live with your boyfriend!
Receptionist: Yeah, once you have the fish in the boat, there’s no reason to keep throwing out the lure.

12th Street
Portland, Oregon

Cube dweller #1: I have people all up inside me all the time, and they're just bound to come out sooner or later.
Cube dweller #2: I do too: that's why I write.
Cube dweller #1: I think we're talking about two different things here.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/304860221/are-we.html

Overheard by: I love a good office gangbang as much as the next guy.

Office engineer #1: Why are you washing your hands in the water cooler?
Office engineer #2: Oh, I was playing with my dirty, failed parts.

Oil pump company
Claremore, Oklahoma

Overheard by: Tony

Coworker #1 (after a low-rumblin', hearty burp): What? “unprofessionalism” is not a word?
Coworker #2: Did you just ask that after burping?

New York City, New York

Girl: Yeah, so I have to go buy this see-through tank top and a see-through skirt for tennis. It’s so stupid. And I will have to wear another tank top underneath my see-through tank top and some shorts to cover up my balls–I mean… [laughs really hard]

Career Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Overheard by: not-so-smart asian.

Female coworker, in singsong voice: Somebody was a yanker!

Boulder, Colorado

Male staffer: There may be a problem.
Female manager: With what?
Male staffer: I was just typing an e-mail about a birth certificate. Twice I typed “bitch” instead of “birth”.
Female manager: Oooh!
Male staffer: I corrected it before I sent it, though.
Female manager: Thank goodness. (pause) Gotta say, though, that I would love to have a bitch certificate. I mean, I do just fine without one, but it would be nice to have the formal recognition.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Michael