Archive for June, 2007

Starbucks, Forbes Ave, Oakland.
Three large Christian youth groups in matching t-shirts enter, and the vast majority orders Frappuccinos. After about 20 minutes, the Lutheran group leaves:

Christian Youth Councilor: [to another] Fucking Lutherans.

N. Craig St., Oakland.
Two large Catholic school girls are walking slowly, taking up the entire sidewalk. A few people have lined up behind them:

Girl #1: So I left without her. I told her she was too slow.
Girl #2: Mmmmhmmm.

Office, East Liberty. Early Morning:

Clerk: Man, we have got to have the weirdest paperboy around.
Janitor: You should see the deformed midget who delivers the Wall Street Journal!

— Overheard by corey w.

Target, The Pointe at North Fayette:

Fat Old Butch Woman: Where are you at, Helga?
Helga: At the girdles; where do you think?

— Overheard by Darwin Police

Carson, South Side. Saturday Night.
Three pre-teens, two boys and a girl, are walking down Carson. The girl stops at a bus stop and the boys keep walking:

Girl: [to man at bus stop] Do the buses that stop here go downtown? [The man answers yes. The girl turns to shout at the boys.] I’m catchin’ a bus, yo! I’m not walkin’!
[One of the boys turns and mumbles something over his shoulder, ending with "rape you."]
Girl: AND THEN DARLENE’S GONNA RAPE YOU!

— Overheard by bookgrrl

Fifth Avenue, near Litchfield Towers, Pitt Campus. Mid-Afternoon.
Two middle-school-aged boys hang outside the window of a bus that is stuck in traffic to yell at
two petite girls who have just left Towers:

Boys: Ya’ll know ya’ll don’t go to Pitt! LITTLE GIRLS!

Pac Sun, Prime Outlets, Grove City:

Middle-Aged Women: [on cell phone] What is Jacob’s pant size?
— OK, great, I found some nice long shorts I want to get him for church.

The Thunderbird, Lawrenceville.

Guy: Where’re you goin’?
Girl: You know where! To drain the sea monster!
Guy: There’s a sea monster involved?
Girl: [laughing] Wouldn’t you like to know?!?

— Overheard by bookgrrl

Office Complex, Greentree.
A phone installer is installing new phones and talking loudly on his cell phone:

Phone Installer: I was looking for my IT guy, but I figured he was out burnin’ one.
— I’m not sure if I want to be working with him.

Food Pavilion, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Downtown.
Two gay men looking at Italian sausages make eyes at each other and smile:

Gay Man #1: They look gooooood .

Gay Man #2: They look like santorum makers.