Archive for May 2007

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Best Song on the New KidzRap™ Album

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!


Friday, May 25th, 2007

People shouldn’t try to update Uncle Remus stories.

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.


Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Substitute teachers’ jobs should be as difficult as possible.

71A Outbound:

Woman on Cell Phone: I hate when people name their kids normal names.


Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Overheard in Pittsburgh LifeLessons™: Give second chances.

Tutoring Lab, Art Institute:

Student: If I were to hit a girl and she didn’t hit me back I’d hit her again. “Hit me back, bitch!”


Thursday, May 24th, 2007

“Pegasus is, like, the worst employer.”

67A Outbound.
Two indie chicks who boarded at CMU are chatting about job interviews:

Indie Chick #1: I had an interview at The Cheesecake Factory. The girl interviewing me asked me if I would have a problem dying my hair to a normal color if I got a job there. I said no because if someone didn’t like me because of my hair color, they’re probably a bigot, and I wouldn’t want to wait on them anyways.
Indie Chick #2: That’s awesome.
Indie Chick #1: I would like a new job, though, because the place I work now has so many gay little rules. They’re so gay.

— Overheard by Stealth Bus Listener


Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I’m happy as long as that scary Nasonex mascot thing is gone.

In Front of Hillman Library, Bigelow Blvd, Oakland. Morning:

Construction Worker: [to co-worker] It’s like Einstein said: When the honeybees disappear, we got about 40 years left, tops.

— Overheard by Lola


Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

This really should have been worked into the advertising.

Loews AMC Cinema at the Waterfront. During a showing of 28 Weeks Later.
A man stands up to go to the bathroom:

Guy #1: Whoah, I think that dude shit his pants.
Guy #2: Yeah, I think I did, too.

— Overheard by Gerrit


Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

My brother recently came out as Shadyside.

Home Depot, East Liberty:

Mother: Oh, I met someone who knows you… Marilyn, I think? She said she went to high school with you.
Daughter: Marilyn? I don’t know a Marilyn. What was she like?
Mother: Oh, tall-ish, brown hair, brown eyes—
Daughter: [considering] Did she seem a little…um… I hate to say “trashy” but, you know—
Mother:
Well, she did seem a little “Morningside”.
Daughter: Oh yeah! Marilyn!


Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Gott ist Todd.

Architecture Firm, South Side:

Receptionist: [on phone] No, God isn’t here; He’s everywhere.
— Ohhhhh, TODD.


Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Ice Cream Headache or Blinding Tumor?

Kennywood:

Fat Child: [running after his parents] THIS ICE CREAM IS MAKING ME CRAZY!

[He does not actually have ice cream.]