Overheard in Pittsburgh

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.

Office, South Side:

Mindless Receptionist: Then what happened?
Soul-Sucking Intern: I woke up and there was something in my mouth.

— Overheard by Sah Side Struggle

CMU Textbook Store. Mid-Afternoon.
Two 40-something women — one white, the other black — are shopping for office supplies:

White Lady: Do you have any more of these eight-tab dividers?
Clerk: No, we don’t have any more of the colored ones, but we have the plain white ones.
White Lady: No, she wouldn’t like that at all. She’d be so mad if we mixed the colored ones and white ones.
[…]
White Lady: [turns to black co-worker] No offense…

DEP Regional Office Building, Liberty Ave, Downtown.
Two warmly dressed employees are standing in front of the windows. Outside, A man in khaki shorts walks by:

Man: That man has shorts on, and it’s cold out!
Woman: He must have gone to Duquesne.

— Overheard by vivie

Conference Room, Pitt Campus.
About 10 women discuss hiring a consultant:

Lady: What if we pay someone now and they work in 2008, 2009, 3000?