Archive for November 2006
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
“No, that’s what you leave out for Santa or Daddy gets mad.”
Lending Desk, Hillman Library, Pitt Campus:
College Chick: I’m gonna have a turkey sandwich and a glass of vodka.
— Overheard by TLB
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Love, South Oakland Style
Meyran Street, South Oakland. Around midnight on a Tuesday.
A Drunk Asshole sits on his porch couch, playing a guitar and singing loudly to the tune of James Blunt’s “Beautiful”:
Drunk Asshole: You’re beautiful, you’re beautiful, you’re beautiful, it’s true. I saw you walking across the street and I want to eat your ass.
Drunk College Girl in Miniskirt and Heels: [From across the street] Oh my god, you have such a good voice!
Drunk Asshole: Thanks.
College Girl: Seriously, that was reeealllly good.
Drunk Asshole: Hey. You wanna come over here? I’ll play some more.
College Girl crosses the street and sits with him on couch.
— Overheard by why do i live in South oakland?
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Potters are mysterious and dreamy.
Elevevator, Wean, CMU Campus.
Three guys enter the elevator on the first floor, followed by two girls on the second:
Girl #1: You hear what happened to Jessie? She went on a date Friday night!
Girl #2: No way! I hung out with her Saturday, and she didn’t say a word about it.
Girl #1: She told me that she wasn’t sure if it was a date or not. It was just this guy who was leading her pottery class.
Boy #1: Uh… is his name Mark?
Girl #1: Yeah! How did you find that out?
Boy #1: He’s my roommate. I didn’t know he was dating again!
Boy #2: Communication is important.
— Overheard by TheConnor
No Comments » - Tags: CMU, Attraction, Love & Sex, Education
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
We Talk of Taxes
Outside Kiva Han, Craig Street, Oakland.
A Guy approaches a female friend sitting at a table outside and talks with her. After a while, he pulls out his cell phone:
Guy: I’m going to take your picture.
Girl: Why?
Guy: Because you look like Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;
- Well, such you are, — but well enough we know
- How thick about us root, how rankly grow
- Those subtle weeds no man has need to tend,
- That flourish through neglect, and soon must send
- Perfume too sweet upon us and overthrow
- Our steady senses; how such matters go
- We are aware, and how such matters end.
- Yet shall be told no meagre passion here;
- With lovers such as we forevermore
- Isolde drinks the draught, and Guinevere
- Receives the Table’s ruin through her door,
- Francesca, with the loud surf at her ear,
- Lets fall the coloured book upon the floor.
- — Edna St Vincent Millay
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Justin never looked at the world the same way again.
House Party, Forbes Ave, Oakland:
Drunk Guy #1: This roof is AMAZING! I love standing on it.
Drunk Guy #2: Are you standing on the roof, or is the roof standing on you?
Drunk Guy #1: What the fuck, man?! What the fuck.
Drunk Guy 1 falls over.
— Overheard by TheConnor
Monday, November 20th, 2006
“Let me demonstrate why we’re called ‘The Show Me State’”
East Carson Street, Southside. Steelers Game Night.
A Drunk Guy, beer in hand, leans out of an SUV’s backseat window to hit on the only three women in the street not in Steelers jerseys:
Drunk Guy: HEYYY LADIES. I’m from Missouri.
Monday, November 20th, 2006
What flavor goes best with vulnerability?
71A Outbound, Craig Street, Oakland. Late at night.
A Middle-Aged Black Man has been ranting to his friends for a while about how young black men aren’t like him:
Middle-Aged Black Man: But I’m not like them: I’m cool. I’m so cool I got ice creams in my pockets. Yeah, Ice creams in my pockets, that’s how cool I am.
— Overheard by Ka-CHANG
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
“Uh, I’ll have to go get the sensei for that.”
Starbucks™, Liberty & Baum, Bloomfield.
A UPMC Shadyside Nurse with a list orders $30-worth of Frappuccinos™:
Nurse: …and I’ll have a large tai chi latte.
— Overheard by Wendy (the barista)
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
The Cool Girls Table at Eat ‘n’ Park
Eat ‘n’ Park, Waterfront. Late Friday Night.
A group of women who were probably really hot and popular in 1992 are talking:
Former Cheerleader: You should really go to her MySpace page. You’ll be like, “Is that Angela? It just looks like a stripper.”
Friday, November 17th, 2006
It doesn’t stop at 21.
59U Inbound, Squirrel Hill.
Two College Girls are carting their groceries back to their CMU dorm:
College Girl #1: I think as I get closer to turning 21 I get stupider by the day. I mean, I don’t have any common sense anymore.
College Girl #2 nods her head in agreement.
— Overheard by Pharout