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Woman: I want a vanilla coffee creme.
Barista chick: I can get you a cup of plain coffee with vanilla
syrup, and you can put the milk in over there. Unless you want a
latte or something?
Woman: What’s a latte?
Barista chick: It’s espresso with milk.
Woman: Oh, espresso! I think that’s a little strong… What about a cappuccino? Do they have those here?

–Starbuck, West 4th Street & Washington Square East

Jewess: My roommate won’t let me use the oven because it hasn’t been made kosher yet.
Jew: Hey, just tell her we’d all be burned in the same oven. That’ll go over well.

–Flatiron Building office

Black chick: …I will never work with her again. She told me, “you people” mess everything up.

She leaves.

White chick #1: Yeah, did she tell you about the designer that was racist to her?
White chick #2: No! That’s so rude.
White chick #1: Yeah, I know. Even though she makes it kind of easy to be racist, that is so fucked up!

–Office ladies’ room, 39th & 7th

Businessman lady #1: See, she always finds a way to make things about her!
Businessman lady #2: Um, she just found out she has cancer.
Businessman lady #1: So? I am getting married, it should be all about me, focus all on me. Now we have to make it about her! Ugh.
Businessman lady #2: You’re not getting married till next year.
Businessman lady #1: I know that, but I am getting married. Anyway, cancer is like the flu, almost everyone is going to get it. She is not going to die from it.
Businessman lady #2: I can’t believe you. You are so crass sometimes. Ugh.
Businessman lady #1: Oh, shit! What if she really does die? Then it will really be all about her. Crap.

–Wall & Water

Girl: Oh my god, you skullfucked a snowman? That definitely was porn!
Guy: It wasn’t porn, it was art. I was covered in blue glitter.
Girl: Sweetie, that just makes it gay porn.

–Times Square

Chick: How’s the leg?
Guy: They can’t find it anywhere…Halloween, you know.
Chick: Well, next year, don’t go as a pirate.
Guy: The thing is, next year I kind of have to go as a pirate.

–Central Park Zoo

Old Latina: Nice flowers.
Hispanic guy: Thanks. Unfortunately, they’re for a dead person.

–1 train

Overheard by: Chris McDade

A mom points to the window of a sex shop, at a jacked mannequin wearing a mask and feather boa. She says: Hey honey, maybe that’s what you could be for Halloween.
Little boy: No, Mommy. I want to be a fireman.

–Christopher Street

Overheard by: Jon

Guy: So you still going to be an elf for Halloween?
Girl: No, actually I’m going to be a fairy, but fairies are part of the elf family.

–6th & B

Girl: Ginger is what pussy would look like if it was sliced.

–Sako Sushi, Amsterdam Avenue

Overheard by: Joanna Kim

Girl: What is that?
Guy #1: Tuna.
Girl: Tuna with what?
Guy #2: Tuna with delicious.

–Sushi Seki, 1st Avenue

Overheard by: KMR