This week's Overheard post needed to incorporate both past and present Penn Staters, so it required more than one day to hear what both sects had to say (or yell, or slur). In fact, it took the whole weekend. From Beaver Stadium to Beaver Avenue, here are the best things that I overheard on Homecoming weekend in Happy Valley.
The comments I heard on every method of transportation I was subjected to between last Wednesday and today, Sunday, make these Overheard posts look tame. I had no idea that sober folk were even remotely entertaining. So as I boarded my Megabus back to Happy Valley, the final step in my jet-lag-ridden journey home, I decided to leave the earbuds out and listen to what my fellow passengers had to say.
You've heard what they have to say outside of Canyon. You've seen the crazy stuff they shout on the White Loop. Now get ready to hear what Penn State's finest have to say between 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. in line at one of State College's most beloved drunk eateries, McDonald's.
It was midnight on the thirstiest of Thursdays when we climbed aboard the bus at the Beaver Hill. We tried to ignore the overwhelming scent of vomit as we perked up our ears, listening for the slurred speech of some Vladdy-logged freshmen. Here are a few of the best, worst, and most ridiculous things that we overheard on the White Loop.
As you walk home from your late night weekend festivities, it’s pretty much inevitable that you’ll hear a snippet of a conversation between drunken passerby that, out of context, will force you to clap a shocked hand over your mouth to suppress an onslaught of uncontrollable laugher. Here are a few of the most ridiculous and entertaining tidbits that I -- and a few Onward State cohorts -- overheard on Beaver Avenue.