Archive for July 2006
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
The Power of Persuasion
Jitters, Shadyside:
Slim Woman: [leaning over the counter] Just a small one with skim milk.
Barista: How much do you weigh? 120? You don’t need skim.
Slim Woman: Okay, I’ll go with 2% —Wait, can I have a milkshake?
— Overheard by grammarnerd.
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
There’s always a silver lining.
Ice Cream-Eating Contest for Bethel Presbyterian’s Youth Mission Trip fund.
Washington Crown Center Mall, Washington, PA:
Food Court Worker/Contestant #1: Good Luck.
Food Court Worker/Contestant #2: I don’t need luck. I’m a retard.
— Overheard by a happy marketing director
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
Queer Eye
71C Outbound, Mid-Town. Mid-Day:
A 50-Something Black Woman in leopard-print spandex, Coke-bottle glasses,
and a fur coat: I told her da truth! It’d be different if I was lyin’, but I was tellin’ da truth! Y’ain’t supposed tuh wear no tube socks wit dress shoes, and y’ain’t supposed tuh put no GREASE ON A WIG! Someitmes… she wears…. a BRAAAAAAUGHHH!
— Overheard by Cypriot K
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
You just need to coordinate a few people with hairspray cans.
Library, Castle Shannon.
A Cantankerous Older Woman complains to the patient librarian who has already checked her out:
Cantankerous Older Woman: When I was young, you could count on the seasons. It went Spring! Summer! Fall! Winter!
[sharp hand gestures accompany each season]
Just like that, every year, no question.
Not anymore.
And we never had any of the confusion like there is now: a cold day in May, a warm day in January. That just didn’t happen.
You just don’t know what to expect. Someone should do something about that.
— Overheard by Jami
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
“It sure is, girl!”
Hastings Street, Point Breeze:
A Rroad Worker leans on the bulldozer another is sitting in.
Road Worker 1: Oh man, is that Crystal Light?