Overheard in Pittsburgh

61B Inbound. Morning.
A Goth of Indeterminate Gender in full regalia — fishnet gloves, chains, acne — stares into space for a while and then suddenly reaches for a cell phone:

Goth: Yo Scary! I really hate to bother you when you’re at work, but I just got the greatest idea for an album cover!
— Yeah, I’ll call you after school to tell you all about it. Bye.

Fish Counter, Giant Eagle Market District, Center Ave:

Middle-Aged Woman: So, I can just bake those and they’re ready, right?
Fishmonger: Yep, at nine hundred fifty degrees for four days.
Middle-Aged Woman: Riiiight.
[...]
Fishmonger: So what’re you gonna tell your guests you’re making?
Middle-Aged Woman: Reservations!  Ha!

— Overheard by Kevin

67F Outbound, leaving Pitt Campus:
Woman: [pointing to the footbridge over Forbes Ave.] When did they build that?
Man: It’s always been there. Look, it says on it, “Established 1787.”

Checkout Line, Giant Eagle, Squirrel Hill:

Guy: [talking about someone on the radio] I like to hear his voice, I just don’t want to see him. You know, like, you can fuck the hooker, but you shouldn’t kiss the hooker.
Girl: [sweetly] Awww, we had that conversation the first night we met.

So that’s why I’ve been getting so many readers and submissions the past few days: Renaissance man Neil Gaiman, writer of The Sandman, among many other things, linked to the site, calling it one of the best of such sites on the Internet. I happen to be a huge fan of Mr. Gaiman’s, and so I use this as further verification of my coolness.

It’s also nice to know that this site was discussed in a recent ethics class at Pitt. Apparently, the class questioned the ethics of posting others’ private conversations to the Internet. I answered these questions for myself before I began this site, but I would love to hear more about this.