Archive for April 19th, 2006

Near the Bus Stop, Fifth and Bigelow, Oakland:

Girl: You’re graduating this year, right?
Guy: Yeah.
Girl: What’s your major?
Guy: I’m in theater.
Girl: What are you going to do with that?
Guy: I have no idea.
Girl: [laughing] Wait tables?
Guy: [melancholy] Yeah…

— Overheard by Donna

Wendy’s, Moon Township:
Two employess, a Middle-Aged Black Woman, and a White High School Girl, are discussing Good Friday:

Middle-Aged Black Woman: … they don’t eat meat on Good Friday?
White High School Girl: No, it’s Catholics who won’t eat meat.
Middle-Aged Black Woman: I thought it was a Christian thing.
White High School Girl: Yeah, but I don’t know which ones.

— Overheard by sammer