Archive for July 30th, 2007

Roberto Clemente Bridge, Downtown. After an Evening Pirates Game.
A young couple is stopped by a man and a woman selling handmade denim Pirates purses:

Male Purse Vendor: Buy a purse for your pretty lady?
Guy: No, she has enough purses.
Male Purse Vendor: if she gets mad at you, she can put a brick in it and swing at you.

* Too obscure?

Prenatal Monitoring Unit, Magee Women’s Hospital, Oakland. 8:15 a.m.
A Nurse hangs up the phone after arguing loudly for five minutes about scheduling a patient for monitoring later that
morning.

Nurse: IF I WAS AN ALCOHOLIC, I’D BE DRUNK.

Rocco’s Tavern, Swissvale.
A middle-aged yinzer is telling jokes to some 20-something bar patrons:

Yinzer: What do pizza and sex have in common?
Patrons: What?
Yinzer: When it’s good it’s good. And when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good!
[Patrons laugh]
Drunk Girl: It’s funny because it’s true!

— Overheard by Megan