Archive for May 25th, 2007

Parking Garage near the Courthouse, Downtown:

Woman: [referring to automated parking lot machines] Do those give change?
Security Guard: Yeah, they do.  You can put in a ten or a twenty.
Woman: No, I mean, do they give change?
Security Guard: [confused] Yeah, just put in whatever bills you have and it’ll make change.
Woman: No, I mean, like at the post office — you know the stamp machines?
Security Guard: Yeah.
Woman: Ok, so, I put money in to buy stamps and it  gives me those gold quarters.
Security Guard: Oh, no, this machine gives you back bills.
Woman: Oh, good.

Chemistry Lab, Doherty Hall, CMU.
The lab is almost over. A student is doing a particularly good job helping the teaching assistants with their cleaning:

Male TA: [to student] We should make you, like, MVP of the lab or something.
Female TA: That would be MVS, because he’s a student
Male TA: [like a rapper] Students can be PLAYAZ too!

Administrative Offices, Warner Hall, Carnegie Mellon University.
A white woman is filing papers in a cabinet in the main hallway of the office, blocking it off. A large black woman approaches:

Large Black Woman: A black woman can’t hardly walk `round her own cubicle without bein’ blocked by white folks!
White Woman: Yup. I’m just one big honky roadblock.