Overheard in Pittsburgh

Apartment, Friendship.
A commercial for First-On™, from the makers of Head-On™ comes on TV:

College Girl: STOP MAKING ONS!

— Overheard by Lady Jane

Benedum Theater. Late in the interminable second act of Light in the Piazza:

Woman in the Second Tier: JUST GET MARRIED ALREADY!
[The audience murmurs assent.]

— Overheard by zph

Inbound Bus Stop, Kelly / S. Trenton, Wilkinsburg:

Lady: [to her son and his friend] I don’t understand why you spend all your time playing video games. It’s like you’re so wrapped up in them, you don’t even take time to watch television anymore.

— Overheard by Alisa Grishman

Mellon Square Parking Garage, Downtown:

Frantic Mom on Cell Phone: Oh! His nunchucks, he can’t forget them. Seriously, he needs his nunchucks!

— Overheard by AlwaysReporting

College of Fine Arts, CMU.
An art class has gathered in the middle of the Great Hall, spread in a circle that blocks passage. A music teacher with a Tuba noisily walks through the circle:

Art Teacher: Hey! You! Your tuba’s fucking up my circle!
Music Teacher: Yeah? Well, your circle’s fucking up my tuba.
Art Teacher: Touché.
— Overheard by Connor 

Chemistry Class, Doherty Hall, Carnegie Mellon:

Frustrated girl: Usually, when I put it next to my boob, it works!
— Overheard by Kevin

McConomy Auditorium, CMU.
Perplexed people leave a showing of The Illusionist:

Guy: You know, magician movies are just like ye olde heist movies.

— Overheard by M. Davies

67A Outbound, Oakland.
A Little Boy in a Steelers Jacket stares out the window, commenting on what he sees loudly and uninteligably. At the Carnegie Mellon stop, the Walking to the Sky statue comes into view:

Little Boy: One day I’m going to buy that statue and send it back to New York!
— Overheard by Connor

Freddy’s Lounge, Moon Township.
The jukebox has stopped, and the bar is silent:

Guy at Jukebox: Oh yeah! AIR SUPPLY! Played LOUD!

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?