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Worker bee #1: I don't know how good an idea that is in a canoe.
Worker bee #2: What? At worst, they could get you for public intoxication.
Worker bee #1: I'm not worried about the legal ramifications. I'm worried about the drowning ramifications.
9000 Plymouth Avenue North
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coworker to another holding book: Go to the vagina page!
Christmas party
Richfield, Minnesota
IT guy: I feel for teachers, because it's not like the good old days when you could take kids under the stairwell and pummel them.
Bush Lake Road
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: just trying to finish the day
Intern: I need to get some sun... so I can get laid. I mean, cancer or celibacy?
Office manager: Cancer!
212 3rd Avenue North
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Sad, but True
Analyst reviewing error report: Working this report requires critical thinking skills.
Department head: What kind of critical thinking skills?
701 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Worker #1: So, what time do you usually stroll into the office in the morning? I'm assuming you're not an eight AM guy...
Worker #2: What makes you think that?
Worker #1: I'm older -- I know things.
Worker #2: And because I sprint into the office 'cause I'm always late.
Worker #1: So, what time is safe for a meeting? Meaning you need to be able to one: talk, two: listen, three: understand, and four: ask questions if you have them.
336 Robert Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: Justin
Summer worker #1: I think I smoke too much weed.
Summer worker #2: Yeah... But at least you won't get glaucoma.
Summer worker #3: What's glaucoma?
Summer worker #1: It's an eye disease. Maybe you should smoke more so you don't get it.
Summer worker #3: But what about lung cancer?
Summer worker #2: Look, would you rather see or breathe?!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coworker: So then he came home with all these bags of groceries, all proud, and after he got them all put away, I was like, 'That's not groceries! That's meat and a pineapple!'
1450 Energy Park Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: JoJo
Woman, about her boyfriend: He doesn't just shit on the bathroom floor of any restaurant. He only does it when he's upset about the food or service. And he wouldn't do it anywhere really nice -- just at places like Arby's or whatever.
Highway 55
Minneapolis, Minnesota
60-year-old coworker: I wanna go in the back door.
Supervisor: Okay...
60-year-old coworker: I really like going in back doors.
801 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Porter
Female employee, about customer: He's afraid of his wife.
Male employee #1: And may I ask who isn't?!
Male employee #2: I don't fear my wife, I just respect her power.
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Worker bee #1: Was this a fire alarm or a severe weather alert?
Worker bee #2: I don't think they would kick us outside during a tornado.
Opperman Drive
Eagan, Minnesota
Large male peon: Oh, I usually take the stairs. Do you mind if we take the stairs?
Large lady peon: Yeah, no-no-no. That's absolutely fine. I take the stairs all the time. Absolutely. So long as it isn't up.
Opperman Drive
Eagan, Minnesota
Overheard by: I'm taking the elevator
Office guy #1: Does anyone know of, like, a Mexican dessert?
Office guy #2: Why?
Office guy #1: Oh, my wife is having a Mexican-themed party and I have to think of a dessert.
Office guy #3: Flan? I think that is Mexican. I don't know what it is, though...
Office gal: Flan is nasty. It has a nasty texture. Flan is like the texture of a rotten cooter.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: I don't like flan either...
Trendy vegan worker: What's that smell? Is someone cooking bacon?
Coworker: There's some in my salad.
Trendy vegan worker: That's so odd. I never even liked bacon, but it smells so good! It's making me horny!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Developer to business analyst: Well, if I get herpes, it tasted really good.
3600 American Boulevard
Bloomington, Minnesota
Sales lady: Hello.
Crazy lady: Don't you talk to me! You don't know me! We don't know each other! You have no right to talk to me!
Rochester, Minnesota
Overheard by: Katie
Hardhat: Don't eat the tuna salad in the cafeteria. It made me throw up.
Suit: Food poisoning takes a while. How long did it take to make you sick?
Hardhat: About 5 seconds. All I can figure is, someone must've put fish in it - I'm allergic to fish.
7th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Female peon: Even if a guy doesn't like you it's still nice if you give him a blow job, right?
Male peon: Yeah, that's nice... That's reeeal nice... That's Toys-for-Tots-nice.
1200 Yankee Doodle Road
Eagan, Minnesota
Coworker #1: Oh, that sounded like a queef.
Coworker #2: I had a friend who could roll over and queef on command.
Coworker #1: Wow! That would be a great party trick.
Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lady on cell: ... Yeah, that's why he wants to keep the urine acidic...
3940 Quebec Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Cranberry Juice
Coworker #1: Helen Keller... She's the blind one, right?
Coworker #2: Yeah. Blind and deaf.
Coworker #1: I always get her and Anne Frank confused.
Coworker #2: What? Why? Because they're both girls?
Coworker #1: Yeah, and they both wrote diaries.
Coworker #2: Uh, I don't think Helen Keller kept any diaries.
800 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coworker to customer: That's what nipple rings are for.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Girl #1: So, they really didn't have sex on Valentine's Day?
Girl #2: Yep.
Girl #1: Here's the thing -- he cooks her dinner, asks advice on wine... The least she can do is lay there for nine minutes.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: steff
Sales rep on phone: I don't want to go see that doctor. He misdiagnosed and killed my grandfather... But he is my neighbor... Okay, I'll see him.
1600 Utica Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: eric
Cube dweller: You would not believe what an expensive soy sauce can do!
535 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Boss exiting stall: I have to wipe piss off the floor at least five times a day!
Employee at urinal: Some people must shake it too hard.
Boss: They just plain miss the shot into the urinal. One time I came in here and someone had pissed all over on the floor, under the stall.
Employee: [Silence.]
Boss: You know when someone jacks off and they don't get it all out? It dries up. When you go to take your first piss after jacking off the stream gets split and it goes all over the place.
Employee: [Silence.]
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Horrified Handwasher
Employee: Thank you for calling Jimmy's Pizza.
Customer: Hi, yes, do you serve pizza there?
Employee: ... Uhhh, yeah... Yes, we do.
4th Street
Albany, Minnesota
Overheard by: Keira
Clerk: You know, the adult videos are 'Buy two, get a third free.'
Best girlfriend evar: Really? Honey, go get that one we were looking at.
Boyfriend: What, the one with the two blondes on the cover?
BGE: No, no -- the pirates one.
Boyfriend: Okay, be right back.
BGE, as soon as he's out of earshot: Quick, while he's gone can you box up that Spiderman statue behind you, too?
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cube worker #1: I think I found the secret project.
Cube worker #2: Mine?
Cube worker #1: You have a secret project?
Cube worker #2: Uh, no.
390 North Robert Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
Suit #1: Dude, I just looked at the girl from last night's MySpace page. Tell me again why you didn't fuck her?
Suit #2: She has birds!
Suit #1: Good enough.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: Jordan
Receptionist #1: How could we have known what happened 10 thousand years ago if Jesus lived only two thousand years ago?
Receptionist #2: Because people before Jesus wrote things down in the Bible.
Receptionist #1: There were people before Jesus?
1600 Utica Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: the saga continues
Employee: I just sent you that email with the summary of all the outstanding issues on the project.
Boss: Thanks. Could you write a summary of that email?
111 3rd Avenue S
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Receptionist: Does the president have to pay the mortgage on the White House?
1600 Utica Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: wish she hadn't voted
Receptionist: I'm going to Hawaii next week. If I wanted to swim under the entire island, how deep would I have to go?
1600 Utica Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Guy: How are you going to tell your mom that you didn't do your homework because you have a gorilla fetish?
Girl: It's not a fetish, I'm just curious about their... stuff.
Guy: It's still fucked up.
Washington Avenue Bridge, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Manager: Look at those reports to see if any of the spelling has whacked off.
13490 Bass Lake Road
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Trying to keep a straight face
CSR: Customer Service, this is Sheri*. May I have your account number please?
Customer: Why is my account negative?!
CSR: Well, if you give me your account number, I can look it up and go over your transactions with you.
Customer gives information, CSR verifies, and the conversation continues.
CSR: Well, ma'am, looks like your opening deposit on Tuesday was 25 dollars... And then you withdrew 40 dollars from the ATM on Friday.
Customer: And...?
CSR: Well, 25 dollars minus 40 dollars is negative 15 dollars.
Customer: I don't understand what you are trying to tell me.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Female coworker: What are Dick's?
Male coworker: Oh, Dick's are huge!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Meghan
Girl #1: Ummm, we need to make copies, and we don't want to spend a lot of money.
Student worker: The copier over there is 10 cents, same as everywhere on campus.
Girl #1: That's so expensive!
Student worker: You could also scan the papers and print them out. That's free.
Girl #1: What do you mean?
Student worker: Ummm, you can put them on the scanner, hit 'Scan,' and then when they pop up, hit 'Print.'
Girl #1: I don't know about this whole scanning thing -- it sounds really complicated.
Girl #2: But that sounds better than making copies. I mean, we only need 12, and I don't want to spend 12 dollars.
Campus library, Bemidji State University
Bemidji, Minnesota
Boss: I don't see it as a big thing, I see it as a thing.
Woodbury, Minnesota
Overheard by: I can't believe I report to this guy
Executive: So I ended up with the meth head's blood all over my face.
8081 Wallace Road
Minneapolis, Minnesota
CIO: You developers have to tell the BAs if you're going to miss a deadline, or they'll be in the dark. Then they can't tell the managers, and they'll be in the dark. Pretty soon we have this big snowball of darkness.
625 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Male co-worker: It just ticks me off that Elmo is more popular than Grover. My other job was really boring, and one day I was fantasizing...
Female co-worker, interrupting: I think we've heard enough.
20890 Kenbridge Court
Lakeville, Minnesota
Overheard by: Gigi
Math genius on the phone: It doesn't really matter to me. It's, like, 12 of one or half a dozen of the other.
333 2nd Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Over-qualified, obviously
Woman #1: I don't think I can handle a two-hour meeting.
Woman #2: The trick is to doodle in your notebook the whole time; it looks like you're taking notes.
Woman #1: I can design outfits for my cat rodeo!
330 South 3rd Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Cora
Woman #1: Sometimes I like doing jobs like this.
Woman #2: Like what?
Woman #1: You know, mindless hand jobs.
380 Lafayette Road East
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: Krista
Mother: I think Grandma Olson has a little bit of a cirrhosis thing going on.
Little girl: Why's that?
Mother: Because Grandma Olson drinks much, much, much more than-
Little girl: -Than grandpa?
Mother: Than anyone in the world.
120 Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, Minnesota
Girl #1: You know that gay guy that works second shift?
Girl #2: Yeah, what about him?
Girl #1: I took him out to meet all my hetero friends, and they enjoyed the shit out of him.
2800 East 28th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: snorted my diet mountain dew
Female patient: I just noticed your ID badge. That's a great picture of you.
Paramedic: Oh, yeah, thank you. You should see my driver's license photo. I wore a priest's outfit for that one.
6500 Excelsior Boulevard
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Overheard by: Rod Backer
Newly-hired girl: So, Harry*, sometimes I can see the outline of your penis in your pants when you walk by my desk.
7201 Metro Boulevard
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Female co-worker: Oww, my ovaries are falling out.
Male co-worker: Do you want some glue?
720 Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
VP: This'll be the director's Easter present to you.
Coordinator: Oh, you mean I don't get any eggs this year?
VP: No, you don't.
Coordinator: Well, can you at least hide it so I can find it?
VP: Yes, we can do that.
900 Simpson Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
Nurse: Is that a paper clip in your hair?
Receptionist: Yeah, I couldn't find a bobby pin
Nurse: God, you're such a secretary.
800 East 28th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: killerboots
Co-worker: I like it so much I say forget about the back end, let's do everything front end.
150 South 5th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Colleen Cauley
Co-worker #1: What's a carpet muncher? Is that a new slang for vacuum cleaner?
Co-worker #2: Um, no. He, he, he. I'll give you a thousand bucks if you ask the boss for a carpet muncher.
Co-worker #1: Why? I don't have carpeting.
800 East 28th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: jearu
Director #1: Hey, why are you packing up? Is your office moving tomorrow?
Director #2: Uh, no. I just got fired.
Director #1: Oh, wow. There's really just not a way for this not to be awkward is there?
7201 Metro Boulevard
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Meeting Lead: The customer wanted another dropdown here for more detail. They have "Category" and "Sub-Category" but they want another one below "Sub-Category". I suggested "Sub-Sub-Category".
11 East Superior Street
Duluth, Minnesota
Boss: By the way, I changed a lot of your code, so if it breaks, that's why.
5720 Green Circle Drive
Minnetonka, Minnesota
Worker: Can I take the rest of the day off?
Boss: LetmethinkaboutthatNo.
Worker: Don't you want to hear why?
Boss: No.
Worker: Some of the guys are going snowmobiling and I wanted to meet up with them...
Boss: What do you think this is, a resort?
Worker: If it were a resort, I wouldn't have to leave; there'd be things to do.
900 Simpson Street
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Co-worker #1: Hey, did you all bring in cookies?
Co-worker #2: God, you're like a shark when there's blood in the water.
3701 Wayzata Boulevard
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Worker #1: That guy really gets on my nerves with his whistling.
Worker #2: Hey [Bryan]! Whistle from where I fucked you last.
21100 Rogers Drive
Rogers, Minnesota
Peon: Well, you know as they say, "Necessity is the mother of all invention."
Boss: That's cool, did you just make that up?
800 E. 28th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: jearu
Auditorium worker: ...she has shelves full of them. If you visit her she goes on and on about all her Hummels. And for each Hummels she has some goddamn story to go along with it. Bores you to death. That's why I don't go over there.
700 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: 2qrs
Flunky #1: The internet is broken.
Flunky #2: What's wrong?
Flunky #1: I can't get to any sites.
3001 Broadway Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
VP #1: I look forward to working with you and [Justin].
VP #2: Yes. Let's do a threesome! It'll be really fun!
800 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Developer #1: It's obvious the code will work. You've coded, you can see it will work. You can see it will work, unless you're stupid.
Developer #2: You're not stupid, are you?
501 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: fmm
Co-worker #1: It's so dry in here, I can feel the skin on my face drying up from the inside out.
Co-worker #2: Do you use moisturizer?
Co-worker #1: Oh yes, if I didn't my face would look just like my grandpa's...and he's been dead for seven years.
1301 West Chestnut Street
Virginia, Minnesota
Pharmacist #1: Wow, this chair is really great! Whose chair is this?
Pharmacist #2: It belongs to [Dana]. Isn't it great? He got it for his back or something.
[Dana]: You have no idea how many people I had to sleep with to get that chair!
800 28th Street E
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Co-worker: We had Burger King breakfast in Mexico and it had refried beans and peppers in the eggs.
Manager: They were probably goat's eggs, not chicken eggs.
9353 Jefferson Highway
Maple Grove, Minnesota
Woman: See [Jane]. See [Jane] spaz. Spaz, [Jane], spaz.
640 Opperman Drive
Eagan, Minnesota
Overheard by: Cubicle Sam
Manager: ...because sometimes we get communications via electronic sending, sometimes through the telephone system.
650 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Jeff Anderson
Assistant: I spent 8 hours of overtime this weekend retyping the spreadsheet for the tax assessor.
Co-worker: They didn't like the arrangement of the spreadsheet so you had to redo it? What do you mean "redo", did you retype everything?
Assistant: Yes, most of it, some I cut and pasted/
Co-worker: Do you know how to use Data Sort?
Assistant: Excel can't do a numerical sort, only alphabetical, and they didn't want that, so I retyped everything.
10 2nd Street NE
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: sweetwhitelady
Graphic Designer: So let me know when you can get me that FreeHand job, I'm not busy today.
Art Director: No problem.
650 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Employee #1: Oh, so you are talking apples and oranges?
Employee #2: No, I am talking about two different things.
701 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Battleaxe: You know, pretty soon we'll start to see refugees from New Orleans at this school...I'd rather that than the Muslims.
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Carl Limbacher
Co-worker #1: Man, New Orleans has sure turned into something out of Lord Of The Rings.
Co-worker #2: Don't you mean Lord Of The Flies?
800 Hennepin Ave S
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The boss is laughing hysterically.
Peon: Are you okay?
Boss: I'm okay.
Peon: Are you sure?
Boss: I told you that I thought Wendy's spiked my Coke.
Peon: With what? Crack?
Boss: Spiked my Coke with crack!
3100 W. Lake Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Co-worker #1: I know why the sales tax isn't calculating right at our New England site. Nobody entered New England's sales tax.
Co-worker #2: What?
Co-worker #1: Yeah, we just need to enter the sales tax rate for the state of New England.
Co-worker #2: New England isn't a state.
Co-worker #1: Ha, ha! Yeah, right!
1 Merrill Circle
St. Paul, Minnesota
Model employee: The earlier I wake up, the more crack I smoke on the way to work.
3100 W. Lake Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Samesque
Lady #1: You know, I think we just need to go over there and just bomb the shit out of them.
Lady #2: Without warning?
Lady #1: Fuck that shit. No warning, just bomb it to pieces.
Lady #2: You know, I used to think we should protect the women and children, but they're just as bad! They do all the dirty work for them.
Lady #1: I agree with you 100%. All the kids have guns there, anyway.
Lady #2: Totally. They all have guns.
80 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Program director: Was he ever a Muslim? Because he carries himself with that same kind of anger.
2739 Cedar Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
IT guy: Does anyone want to help me move some equipment into the U-Haul downstairs?
Co-worker #1: You know I would, but I'm just not wearing the shoes for it today.
Co-worker #2: Why don't you put on your tennis shoes? I see them under your desk.
Co-worker #1: Shh!
3100 West Lake Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Samantha Quinnsbury
Boss: If we don't start turning things around here so I can get home sooner, I'm going to wind up divorced. And that would be...bad. I think.
6106 Excelsior Boulevard
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Mad Cow
Lawyer: Then why did you have sex with your cousin while she was sleeping?
Client: I honestly thought she wanted it. Really, I would never do anything to hurt her. I think of her like a sister.
Lawyer: Perhaps we shouldn't put you on the witness stand.
2605 E. Cliff Road
Burnsville, Minnesota
VP: Do we really need all 3 engines to fly the plane?
Planner: I think so, it's a full plane.
VP: What if the plane is half full? Half the engines?
5001 34th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coworker: Those people in the Tsunami, they deserved to die. They were being greedy, collecting fish from the sea...they should have known there are three phases of a Tsunami.
60 Livingston Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota
Fattie: I swear to Christ, I'm gonna shove that Blackberry up your ass if you bring it to another sales meeting.
1100 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: Steven Grafing