Overheard in Pittsburgh

Hillman Library, Oakland.
A Guy in a Communist Party t-shirt is walking with a girl:

Guy: [With a heavy accent] The newest building in my hometown looks like this. [Gestures at Hillman] The Party Headquarters. It’s awful.

— Overheard by zp

In Front of the Criminal court Building, Forbes and Ross, Downtown:

20-Something Yinzer Chick: I’m dahntahn and not in a paddy wagon! How amazing is that?

— Overheard by Ra

H&M, Southside Works. Grand Opening.An H&M employee hands free t-shirts to a group of Teen Girls waiting in the line to get into the store:

Teen Girl #1: Omigod the clothes here are so, like, cool. I love that they’re made in, like random countries all over the world.
Teen Girl #2: Yeah, I mean, look. This shirt they gave us was, like, made in Cambodia.
Teen Girl #3: Omigod, guys. Check my tag and see where my shirt was made.
Teen Girl #2: Omigod, awesome! Bulgaria!
Teen Girl #1: That is, like, the most random thing ever.
Teen Girl #3: Yeah, Bulgaria must be so awesome for clothes.

Murray Avenue, Squirrel Hill. A clean-cut couple is
talking to the woman who always plays violin outside
the Manor Theater:

Clean-Cut Man: Are you going to see that 9/11 movie, United 93?
[Violin Woman looks unsure.]
Clean-Cut Man: You should play music out here from Titanic or something.

— Overheard by zig

Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital:

Mother: [talking to kid, angrily] There’s no such thing as “fake sunglasses” and “real sunglasses”!

— Overheard by M. Davies, K. Fino

54C, Birmingham Bridge toward the South Side:

20-Something Girl #1: Oh my god, so it’s like girl syndrome all over again.
20-Something Girl #2: What do you mean?
20-Something Girl #1: Even though I’m not super-crushing, Daniel hasn’t e-mailed me back yet and I’m flipping out.
20-Something Girl #2: Oh girl, yeah. Why are we crazy?

—Overheard by Amanda

Three Rivers Arts Festival.
A baby in a stroller has his foot in his mouth:

Artist: How dat shoe taste? Been a while since I had some good shoe…

— Overheard by Jaye

An old couple and their grandchildren are walking out of a bathroom at the Galleria at the Pittsburgh Mills Mall, Tarentum:

Old Woman: Look! There‘s H&M!
Old Man: Him and Her’s.
Old Woman: That‘s what it stands for?

— Overheard by a mall rat

61A, Outbound, Forbes & Murray, Squirrel Hill, Evening Rush Hour.
It is crowded and hot, the usual huge line of people is waiting to get off at the stop, and a short young woman who was wedged next to three sweaty guys’ armpits has a chance to sit down:

Young Woman: Whoo! Smells like Bigfoot dick.

— Overheard by Jackie (Random Bus Rider)

In Front of Pamela’s, Forbes Ave, Oakland:

Shirt-and-Tie Clipboard Guy: [Bright and earnest] Wow! Do you have mystical powers?
Young Guy: Huh?
Clipboard Guy: You must have mystical powers: You’re so fast. I hav[DROWNED OUT BY SIRENS AND A HELICOPTER]

— Overheard by Abo