Archive for April 26th, 2006

61C Outbound, Oakland.
A 20-something black man gets on with a 30-something black woman:

Man: And then he be tellin’ me to date white girls. I told him I ain’t gonna be datin’ no white girls. It’s against my religion.
Woman: Why don’t you turn yourself around and shut up and make that your religion?

— Overheard by Smokey

Duke’s Bar, Millvale Ave., North Oakland:

Bartender: [speaking to a customer] Do not do LSD. Do not do LSD.

[His voice gets louder and is now speaking to the whole bar in the form of a PSA. Bar quiets to listen.]

Bartender: Don’t do LSD. But if you’re going to do LSD, don’t do it in Pittsburgh right now. Don’t do LSD in Pittsburgh right now or you’ll end up in the asylum like my brother.

[Bar returns to normal chatter.]

— Overheard by Jacko and Elsa