Overheard in Philadelphia's Journal

While waiting for the 58 bus at the Frankford Terminal
Homeless White Guy to Black Guy: "Can you spare a nickel?"

Black Guy: "You have some nerve! You're white! You had every advantage and you're asking ME for a nickel!" Homeless Guy shuffles off. Black Guy to Girlfriend: "He's got some nerve! White man stole everything from us and he wants a nickel? Who invented the traffic light? A BLACK MAN! And the white man stole it! Who started the war in Iraq? GEORGE BUSH IS A WHITE MAN! Who invented guns? WHITE MEN! We were using spears!"

3rd and Chestnut
(possibly homeless) Man to friend: "When Archie get drunk, you owe Archie money!"

On the Last R5 into the City, Friday Night
"I got that tattooed in a no-show place."
(drunk Villanova girl referring to 'Only God Can Judge You')

On the R bus
Old man to anyone who will listen: "When I was ten years old I ate ten pounds of jellybeans. You know what happened? I shit in technicolor for two weeks!"

On the 14 bus
Thugged-out guy on cell phone: "...But I'm not Jewish! Ai'ight, shalom."

On The Blue Line
Using her cell phone's two-way feature, a very obnoxious young woman has a very loud and very pointless conversation from the time she gets on the train until she gets off several stops later. Says a woman to her seatmate, "She just said she's pregnant! God help us all!"

For Pete's Sake
One girl with big hoops in her ears says to another girl: "Where is this beer from?"
Other girl: Belgium
hoop girl: Belgium, that's in Germany right?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heard on the Blue Line
Two young women are discussing a mutual friend's abortion, brought on by the boyfriend's rejection of the impending baby. Says one of the young women of the boyfriend:

"He's cool and all, except when it comes to females."

"I'd cut her if my ID was sharper"

- Seven Eleven on the Temple Campus

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"Ouch! My feets be tired!"

-Broad and Diamond

Overheard at Sugar Mom's
"You're not trying to fuck me so bring it on!"

Overheard in the cube behind mine...
"There needs to be more gay hardcore."

Graveyards > Eifel Tower
Two ladies in their 50's on the 42 bus.

lady #1 - So you're going to take a trip to Paris?

lady #2 - Yes i'm going next month.

lady #1 - Paris is absoloutley beautiful. My favorite part of Paris is the graveyards.

teen as he boards and trips onto the LUCY bus at 30^th & JFK:
"Whoa, Lucy! Damn!"

at work tonight, in the library
"My siblings are old enough to have kids but they don't. They can't even get dates."

--the kid working at the desk with the new video-enabled ipod

Archaic Philadelphia Cop Slang?
Two bike cops in Chestnut Hill, yelling at a group of kids to go catch their trains and go home.

Cop 1: Why don't they just go catch their trains?

Cop 2: Because they'd rather hang around bein' a bunch of slapped asses, all messin' around and shit!

[/Huh?]

Current Mood: baffled
Current Music: pavement

Overheard on the Blue Line
A crazy man was talking loudly and happily to anyone who would listen, especially the ladies. "I'm blessed!" "I have a three-piece suit and I'm gonna to wear it down Delaware Ave. tonight!" "I like your hair, lady!"

Finally he says to a woman sitting near me, "Don't worry, I'm not drunk. All I drink is coffee!"

Said the woman, "Then you need some decaf!"

Heard on the Blue Line
Crazy Lady talking to herself: "If you're boy-crazy see a psychiatrist!"

K bus
"It runs in my family. I got the syphilis from my grandma's side, so I gots to watch what I eat and shit."

Another girl on the bus says, on her cellphone, "Oh, and I just remembered I need to get condoms on the way home from work tonight..."

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