Boss: Is there anyone with a brain out there?

10th Avenue
New York, New York

Receptionist: Girl, you’re young, you’re skinny, you’ve got a boyfriend who makes you happy, and you’re not cramping. You were doomed to have a shitty week here before you walked through that door.

8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: They’re not bitter or anything, though…

Cube rat: Do you realize that it’s 2007 and we’re still sharing the planet with fucking animals?

210 East 43rd Street
New York, New York

Worker bee: As a child — as an infant — I was a projectile vomiter. Laying on my back, I could hit the ceiling! It’s too bad I can’t do that now.

402 Watertower Circle
Colchester, Vermont

Overheard by: Bastian

Woman: Hey! How are you?
Small, loud man: Do you really want to know, or should I just smile and nod?

3040 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Overheard by: Ben A. Fit

Girl: Did signing the Articles of Confederation makes us confederates?

Quinsigamond Community College
Worcester, Massachusetts

Visitor making fresh coffee in break room: Does this office make coffee with one packet or two?
Employee: Usually one… But there are factions…

1920 East Parham Road
Richmond, Virginia

Medical dispatcher giving CPR instructions: Now straddle his lips with your hips…

San Jose, California

Overheard by: firechick

Office chick #1: I’m scared of the men’s room. I think it’s the urinal…
Office chick #2: I’m scared of that little thing in the men’s room.
Office chick #1: What little thing?
Office chick #2: You know — that little wooden thing. It used to be in our bathroom… It looks like a little totem pole.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Receptionist: Well, I wouldn’t know. I don’t go into the men’s room.
Cintas lady: That’s where I get most of my pleasure at!

8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Nikki