Water Cooler Conversation: Top Ten Pick Lines
What happens when two people in the office strike up a conversation at the water cooler? Lots of gossip and a touch of flirting at work, no doubt. Pressure Coolers, the UK water chiller specialists, give us the top ten office chat lines we all love to hate …
Every office has its collection of flirtatious, lotharios, nerds, and shy people. Usually everyone sits at their desks alone or spends their time isolated in their booths on the phone. But like the animals of the plains, they all flock to the local watering hole. Your office water cooler can be the place where star-crossed lovers first glimpse each other or, more likely, the place where someone tasted an unforgettable phrase about you.
Flirtations say the best lines as they are usually just a joke and are not taken too seriously. You’ve probably met the office flirting many times at the water cooler, saying;
“I know water is good for the body, but wow, how much have you had to drink?”
“You know, they might ask you to leave soon, you’re making the other men / women look really bad.”
“You see my friend there -[vaguely waving at someone in the office] – He wants to know if you think I’m cute. “
“Is it hot in here or is it just you?”
If this sounds like you, or someone you know, be careful. If the flirtations take too much blow on the quality of their cold water talk, they can easily become the office lotharios out of sheer desperation. These super flirts don’t really care if you like their lines or not because they are going to say them anyway, and they are sure to be outrageous. Spotting a lottery is easy as they can say things like:
“What has 160 teeth and holds the incredible Hulk? My zipper!”
“You know how some men make up for a certain … shortage by buying a really expensive car? Well, I don’t even drive.”
However, you might prefer the outright lottery streak when faced with embarrassing advances from the office shy …
“You are the only reason I have come here alone.”
“Were you smiling at me just now or did I incorrectly put my contacts back?”
Both are preferable to the miserable lines that the office nerd says whose path does not usually cross. A couple of options are:
“Are you busy tonight … at 3 am?”
“Can I connect my FireWire to your USB?”
Against these lines, Matthew Mitchison, director of Pressure Coolers, jokes: “Maybe people will be encouraged to make more, or better, use of their office water cooler from now on.” One thing is for sure, office flirting around the water cooler is a natural phenomenon that should be allowed to continue unabated and unabated.