Employee: Can I have your first and last name?
Customer: I don’t have one.
715 Jefferson Street
Wausau, Wisconsin
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- Dumb Customers, General Idiocy, Wisconsin
Secretary #1: Here, I’ll trade you dark chocolate for my chocolate.
Secretary #2: No, I like dark chocolate.
Secretary #1: Why does the white man have to take all the dark chocolate? That’s the last piece of dark chocolate, and I’m dark so I should eat it! You ate all the white chocolate last week because you’re white, and now you’re going to have all the dark chocolate, too, just like the white man does to everything!
Secretary #2, eating dark chocolate: It’s all mine now. Look at this! [Opens mouth.]Secretary #1, muttering to herself and walking away: Just like the white man…
11330 Pierce Street
Riverside, California
Overheard by: Kevin
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- California, Coworkers, Gripes, Meals and Snacks, Race
Secretary: Did Taryn* come back from the doctor’s?
Chart drone: Yeah, she said the doctor put a stiffener in her.
Secretary: Good, that will help her.
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: phoenix, best analyst ever
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- Coworkers, Gossip, New York, Possible Sexual Harassment
ER nurse #1: No, she wouldn’t let us. I’ve been trying for 20 minutes.
ER doctor: Well, then she needs to understand that we can’t establish the assault if we can’t get to the evidence.
ER nurse #1: I don’t think she cares. I mean, she wanted me to smell her underwear!
ER nurse #2: What? Did you?
ER nurse #1: Yeah. It didn’t help.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: TK
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- Colorado, Doctors, Nurses, Possible Sexual Harassment
Woman: My tooth fell out yesterday. You know, chewing gum and blood taste quite nice together.
Suit: You are a vampire.
Woman: No, actually, I’m a werewolf.
Suit: [Moves away.]
Rozemblum
Tel-Aviv
Israel
FedEx man: There are a lot of you women hanging around the front desk today.
Vet tech: We’re all just waiting to fight over your package.
99th Street and Leavenworth Road
Kansas City, Kansas
Overheard by: Christina
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- Kansas, Possible Sexual Harassment, Tech People
Receptionist #1: Oh we’re sorry.
Male customer, trying to pick up his cat from the vet: What?
Receptionist #1: We were talking about personal stuff.
Receptionist #2: Yeah, aren’t we typical women? Talking about guys?
Male customer: Well, to be honest, like a typical guy, I wasn’t paying attention.
Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
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- General Idiocy, Louisiana, Receptionists
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
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- Coworkers, Health & Hygiene, Minnesota
Boss: There’s nothing like walking to put the newspapers behind the circulation desk and looking out towards the front and having the first thing you see be the word ‘penis.’
Library
Richmond, Virginia
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- Dumb Bosses, Gripes, Virginia
Boss: Let’s get things set up. Let’s move the mouse.
Bethesda, Maryland
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