Amherst girl to Dartmouth guy, discussing Hillel dinners at Harvard: I turned down a position at Massachusetts General Hospital because they don’t have squash courts.
Commuter Rail Train
Boston, Massachusetts
Archive for the ‘Jobs & Careers’ Category
Sounds Almost As Cool As Our Job.
Woman on cell: I’m coming to LA to make 100 Egyptian army uniforms, then I’m going back.
International Airport
El Paso, Texas
Overheard by: V
A Bravo TV Contestant!
School counselor, trying to get kids to guess a career: This person might work in fashion, or decorate houses…
Fourth grader: A gay guy!
Raleigh, North Carolina
The Dressing Will Lube My Inner Thighs for the Next Long Ride
Sad dude: The great thing about being a bike courier is that my muscles no longer respond to commands unrelated to bicycling. For instance, I just spilled a Caesar salad all over my pants.
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…With a Preference for Manila Sex
Out-of-towner: I like being paid in envelopes; it makes me feel like a prostitute.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Jonathan
If One of Our Editors Doesn’t Beat You to It
Middle aged redneck to cute four-year-old girl: You’re just as sharp as your great granddaddy! You’re gonna grow up to write about public restrooms in America!
Gas Station
Waco, Texas
Dude, Just Make an Audio-Visual Geek Your Friend
Music history professor, putting a CD in the player: And now we pray to the god of CDs. It’s not good to be a teacher with CDs. They are very stupid things. [Pause.] …It’s not good to be a teacher, perhaps that’s what it is.
Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore, Maryland
And Get That Hannah Montana Ringtone I’ve Been Wanting
Hipster boy: So, are you doing that post-bac pre-med thing?
Hipster girl: I dunno…I don’t really know what I wanna do.
Hipster boy: Really, you don’t wanna do medicine anymore?
Hipster girl: I dunno, I wish I could like, win the lottery. Then I’d go to like, Ghana, and just save people.
NYU Elevator
When You Can Take the Handicapped Kid’s Scissors Away, Grasshopper…
Bimbette: … You, like, learn to flip people on the mat. My mom knows how to do that. She works with retarded kids and they, like, have come at her with scissors and tried to cut her throat before.
Barista: That doesn’t sound like a job I’d want to have.
Bimbette: No, she loves it.
Starbucks
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Overheard by: I just want my mocha, please
I’ll Stick to My Placenta Face-Cream, Thank You Very Much
Male wedding-goer to female wedding-goer: Oh, you guys work here? Excellent! My sister’s husband, oh, I mean my brother-in-law, sells semen. Bull semen.
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Overheard by: best pick-up line ever
