Overheard in Pittsburgh

Sixth Street, Liberty / Penn, Downtown.
Three elderly women walk out of Starbucks:

Elderly Woman #1: My daughter’s been telling my granddaughter that she’s 29 years old for five years now… And just as I was about to tell my granddaughter her real age, she turns to me and said, “And what does that make you, grandma? 40?”
Elderly Woman #2: You didn’t tell her, did you?
Elderly Woman #1: Damn right.

— Overheard by Megan

Wendy’s, Bloomfield:

Manager: Hey, I need that double cheese now.
Employee: I… this one?
Manager: No, this is the bacon… did you make this twice?
Employee: I guess….
Manager: Alright, just make that other one now.
[Manager goes back to customer]
Manager: [looking back] Oh, and, do me a favor: next time someone passes you that blunt… put it back, a’ight?

— Overheard by Kevin

Starbucks, Sewickley. Sunday morning.
A 50-something husband and wife sit next to each other, reading newspapers:

Wife: Oh, look: K-Mart’s having a baby sale.
Husband: What kind of baby are you looking to buy?
Wife: Oh, you know, whatever’s on clearance.

— Overheard by Darwin Police

Cinema, AMC/Loews Waterfront.
The ads are running before a movie:

Nerdy Girl: I had a friend who mixed LSD and heroin. She lived, though.
Guy Friend: All I can say to her is, “Congratulations.”
Nerdy Girl: Yeah, she didn’t remember much of her freshman year of high school.

61B Inbound, Oakland:

African American Woman: [Addressing Bus Driver] That’s what I tol’ my son: I put you on this earth, I can take you out. I’ll get my Louisville Slugger. Uncle Sam’s got him over in Iraq now, though.
Bus Driver: So he’s getting whupped for a paycheck instead of for free?!
African American Woman: Exactly. I tol’ all my kids, I brought you in, I’ll take you out. Even my granddaughter, I didn’t bring her in, but I’ll take her out too. I tol’ her that and she went crying to Sharise — her mama — but Sharise just tol’ her “Baby girl, your grammy tol’ me that when I was a little girl too, and I’m sticking to it.” She went
crying to her other grammy, and she tol’ her the same thing I did.
Bus Driver: Amen!

[The bus pulls up to the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital. The African American woman gets up to start getting off the bus.]

African American Woman: Time to get my nurse on!

—  Overheard by Connor

Parking Lot, South Hills Village Mall.
A Middle-Aged Woman stands extremely close to a toothless Old Woman’s face:

Middle-Aged Woman: Do you want to go hoooooooooome?
Old Woman: Oh yeah, shur. Thah sounds gud.
Middle-Aged Woman: You don’t know what you want, gooooddaaamn it!

— Overheard by Jazz

Philosophy Class, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Campus.
Two Students discuss a female student in a different class:

Student #1: She’s old — like, old old.
Student #2: Old old?
Student #1: Like, older than our parents old.
Student #2: Ah, grandma old.
Student #1: Like, in between— like, in-between parents old and grandma old.

— Overheard by Dan

Town Square, the Waterfront.Saturday Evening.
A white, middle-class family with three children under six passes Victoria’s Secret:

Four-Year-Old Boy: [pointing at Victoria's Secret] Let’s go in here.
Five-Year-Old Boy: Eeww! That’s all girl stuff!

— Overheard by Kelly

Ross Park Mall, Ross Township.
Two Elderly Women wait for the ACCESS bus:

Elderly Woman #1: I do not like Macy*s. Their prices are too high. Then they are putting a Nordstroms in over there. That is not for me. That is for “Angena Jolie” and “Britney Spears”. Not me.
Elderly Woman #2: Ah huh.
Elderly Woman #1: The most I ever spent for a purse was $60. I would never spend $500 for a purse. But, if I did, I would put a big tag on it saying, “I paid $500 for this purse,” so everyone could see how much I spent on it.
Elderly Woman #2: Oh.
Elderly Woman #1: Why did they put shrubs out there? Who the hell wants to come to a mall to see shrubs?
Elderly Woman #2: Ah huh.

YMCA, Boulevard of the Allies, Downtown.
An old woman turns to a young woman in a Pitt t-shirt:

Old Woman: Mmm… It smells like bananas. Are you wearing bananas?

— Overheard by Point Park student