Overheard in Seattle Offices: October Edition

Seattle conversations showed up on Overheard in the Office three times last month.

Oct. 9:

Old man: Excuse me.
CD store employee: Yes.
Old man: Where do you keep your Negro music?
CD store employee: What?
Old man: Your Negro music!
Grandson: He means rap music.
CD store employee: Oh, over there.

1st Avenue North

Oct. 23:

Guy: Why can't you just have the party at your place?
Girl: 'Cuz I lost my damage deposit after that one time when that guy caught himself on fire.
Guy: A guy caught himself on fire and you lost your deposit?
Girl: Well, he dropped and rolled on the carpet. Then someone tried to put out the embers with rum, so the carpet caught fire too.
Guy: ....
Girl: Yeah, no more parties at my place cuz I have stupid friends who totally owe me $500 now.

Eastlake

Oct. 25:

Engineer to lunchroom: So do you guys know if we're officially called 'United States of America' or is it just 'United States'?

413 Pine St

"Small town" Washington may have them all beat, though -- from Oct. 19:

Female coworker: I'm so tired of being alone but it's impossible to meet any available men here. I should have taken John* up on his offer.

Male coworker: Who?

Female coworker: You know, John Smith*. The guy who was here about eight years ago and got booted, then came back a few years later, then got booted again a couple of years ago.

Male coworker: Oh he's been booted more times than that! What are you talking about?

Female coworker: Didn't I tell you? He came back last fall trying to get reinstated and stopped by to see me. He said he'd been thinking about me. He wanted to know if I was interested in getting together but I didn't want to get into that so I lied and said I was seeing someone. Now I wonder why I did that.

Male coworker: Maybe because he's a bipolar bisexual alcoholic?

Female coworker: There is that...But I bet he wouldn't have bored me.

Seattle's already shown up once in November -- so keep your ears open, crank out those submissions, and see if we can crack double digits.