Archive for July 2006

Monday, July 31st, 2006

No, of course she doesn’t. She’s not hollow inside.

Elevator, Office Building, Downtown. Morning:

Business Cazh Woman #1: Do you know if their divorce is final yet?
Business Cazh Woman #2: It is.. I mean, I shouldn’t say that. I don’t actually know.
Business Cazh Woman #1: Did I tell you I saw them at the zoo? They are dysfunctional.
[…]
Business Cazh Woman #1: And she is crazy. I mean I know he’s not all there, but she is just crazy.
Business Cazh Woman #2: I know.
[…]
Business Cazh Woman #1: And she’s really not an attractive woman.
Business Cazh Woman #2: She’s got that skeletal face.
[The Women get off at their floor]
Business Cazh Woman #1: I mean, I don’t like to be mean to people, but…


Thursday, July 27th, 2006

That means he’d still have sex with her.

Near the post office, Murray Avenue, Squirrel Hill:

Guy on Cell Phone: OK, I’m in hate with her.


Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

This is how arena football began.

Kids Kingdom, Pittsburgh Zoo, 86 degrees and humid.
A group of adults sit on benches while the kids run around:

Man: Man, the entire zoo needs to be inside, air-conditioned, and funk-free.


Monday, July 24th, 2006

Appropriate Venue

Lava Lounge, South Side. Karaoke night.

Drunk Man on Cell Phone at Urinal: I do miss you! I think about you all the time. I miss your strawberry sunny hair.

— Did you get that? I came up with that for you. When I wrote that, what I was talking about is… how you have red and blonde…

—Oh, you did? Oh.


Friday, July 21st, 2006

It’s all in the perspective.

Men’s Locker Room, Club Julian, McKnight Road.
Two older men get dressed after their showers:

Man #1: How old are you, anyway?
Man #2:74; you?
Man #1: 83.
Man #2: Well, I don’t think I’ll make it to your age.
Man #1: You don’t want to. All my friends are dead.

- Overheard by Bob


Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

The Lord takes ExtraCare™ cards

CVS, Smithfield St., Downtown. Lunchtime.
A Large Black Woman with a very large hairstyle is picking through the drink coolers and talking on her cellphone. A couple of Art Institute kids squeeze by to get to the snack aisle:

Large Black Woman: Yeah, my hair be testifyin’ today.
Art Institute Kid: [whispering loudly to a friend] Can I get a witness?

- Overheard by Blake


Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Nothing’s the same after you’re too big to ride on the front of the cart anymore.

Giant Eagle Market District, Shadyside:

Little Boy: What are veggie dogs? We have to find the veggie dogs. What are veggie dogs…
Man: [finally answering his son] Nana doesn’t eat animals.
Little Boy: Does Nana eat chicken wings or veggie chicken wings? Does Nana eat ribs or veggie ribs?
[…]
Little Boy: Nana, are you buying veggie buns for the veggie dogs?
Middle-Aged Woman in Tie-Dye: No, just regular buns
Little Boy: [to Little Girl] I don’t want buns; I want donuts.
Little Girl: Ask your dad.
[Little Boy silently adds donuts to the cart. His father sees him and puts the donuts on a shelf the boy can’t reach.]
Little Boy:
Nana, can we get donuts? Theeeeeey are vegetarian.


Monday, July 17th, 2006

But you have to admit their signs are a little more eye-catching.

Near the Roberto Clemente Bridge, Downtown. Before the Allstar Game.
A small group of anti-sweatshop protesters march toward the game when a group of anti-abortion protesters comes into view:

Sweatshop Protester #1: Look at them!
Sweatshop Protester #2: They’ll do anything for publicity!

- Overheard by Neutral Bystander

Overheard in Pittsburgh FunFact™: One of the unborn stars of the anti-abortion signs in named “Baby Malachai”! No autographs, please!


Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Yes, but regular Pirates games don’t have the same collectible cups.

Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Left Field Rotunda, PNC Park.Top of the ninth, two outs, after the National League blows a one-run lead:

20-something in Andy Van Slyke Pirates jersey: If I’d known I’d be watching another Pirates game, I wouldn’t have paid so much for these tickets.

- Overheard by bwzimmerman


Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Well, that answers that question.

Mary Schenley Fountain,Oakland:

Bare-chested Black Man: My grandmother was Sicilian.
Redheaded White Woman: [bored] Yeah, mine, too.
Bare-chested Black Man: I was raised by the Gambinos.
Redheaded White Woman: [looking over at him sharply] Really?
[Bare-chested Black Man breaks into deep baritone aria.]