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UPS guy: Wow. Don't you look fancy today!
Man in office: Nah, these are actually my stripping clothes.
UPS guy: Oh, really? The ladies must love that.
Man in office: Yeah, they have a Velcro crotch. It's pretty awesome.
UPS guy: Whelp, see you later.
1160 Pioneer Road
Salt Lake City, Utah
Owner: So, Gary*, did you ever tell Lou* that he could not get a check for any steel order we needed?
Gary: No, no, no, I have never done that.
Lou: What about last week?
Gary: Well, we didn't have any money then.
Provo, Utah
Overheard by: Poking my eyes out
Experienced stock broker: It's not a butterfly spread, it's a condor spread. Although, I'm not sure why it's called that -- the eagle is a more common big bird, so it should be an eagle sprea-- Oh.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Male worker #1, pointing at desk: What is that?
Male worker #2: I don't know.
Male worker #1: It looks like a booger, and it's not mine!
Male worker #2: How do you know it's not yours? It's on your desk!
Male worker #1: Because I eat mine.
Male worker #2: Oh, God...
1574 South West Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Shaun
Shuttle driver: ... So I married a girl from Wyoming.
Customer: Well, at least they shave there.
Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: confused front desk girl
Hiring manager: I think I need to go have some fun.
Training manager: If you want to have a good time, you need to come into my office! ... If you want to have some fun... [Face turns red and she walks into her office.]
2835 Decker Lake Boulevard
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Cubicle spud
Interviewer: Are you comfortable with the salary for this position?
Interviewee: Well, not really, but since I don't currently have a job, I guess it'll have to be okay.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Male legal assistant: Sean*, all we need is vaginas.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Confused Coworker
Development manager: ... So then I told my wife that even if we raised our granddaughter she could still end up like her mother. I mean, she doesn't have tattoos, but she does drugs and she's a tramp.
IT analyst: Don't call your daughter a tramp, that's not nice!
Development manager: Why not? She sleeps with every Tom, Dick and Harry!
IT analyst: At least she has a social life.
1600 South 900 West
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Jealous
Former Mormon chick: I'm not really into religion anymore.
Dude: Oh, yeah?
Former Mormon chick: Yeah. I think I'm a Deist.
Dude: That's interesting.
Former Mormon chick: I need to research what that means, though.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Social worker: Honestly, what parent in their right mind hands a toddler who is just learning to walk a wire hanger as a chew toy in goodwill and thinks it's a good idea?
Medical Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: makin a difference
Office peon #1: Gah, if I could just tell Excel what I want, it'd be so easy. 'Do this!' I'd say, and it would be like, 'Sure!' and life would be simpler.
Office peon #2: Or it wouldn't listen, and you'd put on some leather straps with nipple rings and it'd say, 'Hit me again. Let me see you get reeeal angry.'
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Boss: When, in the course of your life, you are traveling to the right you will find that you must take the toll road and pay your dues. There is no free road to the right.
Employee: Uh... Can I have my doughnut now?
Bountiful, Utah
Overheard by: tkt
Mom to little kid: I told you not to go in the road.
Dad: Yeah, you get hit by a car, you gon' be in there with mama on a bed. [Kid stares.] You get hit by a car, you gon' have to get X-rays. You want X-rays? X-rays hurt.
Doctor's office, 35th Street and Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: JChan
Newlywed father-to-be on phone to coworker: Yeah, it's great! Although... It's very large and hard... For some reason I thought it would be squishy.
4001 South 700 East
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Really hopes he's talking about his wife's belly...
Drone: The client just called to say he only received eight pages of the fax I tried to send.
Boss: Did you check to make sure you are sending to a fax number?
Main and Center
Moab, Utah
Coworker: Oh, look! He got you more flowers! Wow, he's really pursuing you!
Coworker using online dating service: I know! But I told him I wouldn't go out with him until the divorce is final.
700 East Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Overhearer
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
Boss: Why didn't you build those three displays last night?
Night guy: I couldn't find the stuff to do it with.
Boss, going back and pointing to the only three pallets of stuff in the back room: This is the stuff you couldn't find all night?
Night guy: You should have put in my note that I should look harder.
Albertson's
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: Bill
Woman on the phone in the HEAT assistance office: I can't talk right now, I'm in HEAT.
533 East 26th Street
Ogden, Utah
Overheard by: I see it Now
Boss: I need to hire someone, but I need that person to be unexperienced, so that they don't stupidly think they know what they are doing here before I train them.
Underling: Wait, then why did you hire me? I knew what I was doing when I started here.
Boss: You are the reason I now require people to be unexperienced. I couldn't train the arrogance and stupidity out of you.
800 East, Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Overheard by: tm
PhD #1: So we need to find babies who's mothers smoked during their pregnancies.
PhD #2: What would be great is if we could find some pregnant women who smoke and monitor the fetus before, and a while after birth. But that's kinda illegal and unethical.
PhD #1: Yeah, we can't really encourage women to continue smoking while they're pregnant.
30 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: whitney
Employee #1: I can't believe they made that bitch Employee of the Month.
Employee #2: Me, neither.
Employee #1: I'm going to the general manager.
Employee #2: Yeah, I'll back you up.
Later.
Boss: Who the hell told her that was a good idea to come see me?
Employee #2: I don't know, I tried to stop her.
999 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
Mortgage Specialist: I have to say this loan is for you. In fact, if you were to reject the loan I would frankly have to drive down to
your house and shoot your porch light out.
Borrower: Well we can't have that now, can we?
440 W 200 S
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: AK 47
Co-worker #1: My diet is going really well. I have hardly eaten
anything today.
Co-Worker #2: Oh really?
Co-Worker #1: Yeah, I have had only three hot dogs and two hamburgers.
860 Levoy Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah