Intern #1: Sorry, I can't go out tonight. I have to get a tattoo.
Intern #2: Oh, what are you getting?
Intern #1: This proverb: “time wasted can never be reclaimed.”
Intern #2: That's deep.
Intern #1: Yeah, it was between that and a lollipop on my hand. But I did a Twitter poll and they voted on the proverb.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Hanly
Department head on phone, talking about screws and fasteners: A Tek 5 should work fine… What? Did you just say “super woody”?
New Braunfels, Texas
Overheard by: That Guy
Employee: Thanks for calling iTransact, can I help you?
Customer: Yes, I’d like to cancel my account, please.
Employee: No problem, sir. Can I have your name, please?
Customer: Yes, it’s ‘Frank.’ That’s ‘F’ as in ‘Frank,’ R-A-N-K.
Farmington, Utah
Manager: What does the word “nugatory” mean?
Employee: I don’t know but it sounds important.
Manager: I’ll see if I can slip it into my next talk to staff, they won’t know the difference.
North Terrace
Adelaide, South Australia
Customer to pharmacy tech: I don't want you. I want the guy with goatee. Where's the guy with goatee?
Pharmacy tech: Nobody here has gold teeth.
Los angeles, California
Overheard by: Don't have either one
Woman in bathroom stall to woman in neighboring stall: Yeah, she the one who did my son's circumcision. She did a bang up job.
Olathe, Kansas
Smug manager: The store is set up in concepts.
New, confused employee: [nods]Smug manager: We like to think that it tells a story.
Banana Republic
Dulles, Virginia
Overheard by: Karen
Receptionist: It was just Janice and I, and my dad had to do all the screwing.
Atlanta, Georgia
Secretary: Well, we’re going to Jersey for that meeting, so we could go to the Village Gourmet.
Engineer: Yeah, that was good the last time.
Surveyor: Doesn’t the guy that owns that one own another one too, right down the street from the Village Gourmet?
Secretary: Yeah, but it’s really expensive, everything’s a la carte.
Engineer: What does a la carte mean anyway?
Secretary: Dude, you’re 26 years old and you don’t know what a la fucking carte means?
Surveyor: Aren’t you French Canadian, too?
One Penn Plaza
New York, NY
Overheard by: Melissa Miller
IT guy #1: You just need to shut your mouth and cowboy up.
IT guy #2, shocked: Cowboy up!?
IT guy #1: Yeah, cowboy up.
IT guy #2, dismissively: Cowboy up, my ass…
New Jersey
Overheard by: Sully
