Archive for April, 2006

Women’s Restroom, AMC Loews Waterfront:
A Woman with a visible pair of cat scratches on her nose is washing her hands.

Hoochie Girl: Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl, I HOPE you punched yo’ man back!

— Overheard by Alisa

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Bruegger’s Bagels, Squirrel Hill.
A group of teens sits by the front windows, giggling hysterically:

Teen Girl: EW!  He LICKED it!

[More hysterical laughter]

Bagel Employee: [watching from counter, to Shift Manager] You should make them clean the windows.

— Overheard by zig

Animal Physiology Class, Langley Hall, Pitt Campus.
The students are asking the Professor what will be on an upcoming exam:

[Student sneezes.]
Professor: No, that won’t be on the exam.
— Overheard by Sophie

Meyran & Forbes, Oakland:

Sorority Girl, on cell phone: When the doctor told me that, I was like, “Great, I’m gonna die.”
— I just wanted to let you know.  Now we’re, like, really sisters.

— Overheard by zig

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland.
A toddler is looking at the Amphibians & Reptiles exhibit with his family:

Toddler: But why did they kill them?!

— Overheard by Stasia

Law Office, Downtown:

Gruff Attorney: You know what? This is the M*A*S*H unit of law offices! Things happen here that don’t happen anywhere else.

— Overheard by Wendy

71A Inbound, Oakland:
A Five-Year-Old Boy sits with his Mom, looking at an ad for a debt consolidation company featuring a Debt monster.

Five-Year-Old Boy: Mommy, is he real?
Mom: No, he’s just a picture that represents a concept.
Five-Year-Old Boy: Mommy, is Santa Claus real? I could open my eyes and see him. I can’t go to where he lives. I will sleep on the couch and wait for him.

— Overheard by Sophie

Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill:

Sweatshirt Kid:
There are fifty states.
Ghetto Superstar:
Fifty-one if you count Puerto Rico
Sweatshirt Kid:
Puerto Rico is a province
Ghetto Superstar:
Roswell is the fifty-second state.

— Overheard by Brad