Comedy show promoter: Miss! You dropped a dreadlock!
Black woman with dreadlocks: Where? (worriedly searches the ground)
Comedy show promoter, holding flyer in her face as looks up: Just kidding! You like comedy?
–Union Square
Wow, I'm Even Smarter Than I Thought
Little kid: Mom, what language they speak in England?
Mother: English.
Little kid: How do you say “hi” in English?
Mother: “Hi”, you are speaking English.
–85th St & Amsterdam Ave
That’s the Axe Effect, You Gauche Biotech
A crazy man mutters to a girl walking by. She ignores him and keeps walking.
Crazy man: God kill all the lesbians. God please kill all the lesbians. Kill the lesbians. God please kill all the lesbians!
Woman on bench: Yeah, I’m sure it’s because she is a lesbian, and had has nothing to do with the fact that he has three combs stuck in his afro and smells like a dead goat.
–Columbus Circle station
Wednesday One-liners Are #1!
B&T guy: Just go to Urban Outfitters and take a piss in the dressing room then. –6th Avenue & 8th Street Overheard by: ja
My Friend's From Special K-Town, Sir
Girl on street: Where are we?
Friend: K-town.
Girl on street: Oh really? Yoboseyo? Saranghaeyo. Kamsahamnida!
Friend: Shhh!
Girl on street: (continues to mumble random Korean words)
Random foreigner: Girl, you in the wrong city.
–K-Town
Overheard by: EunMi
As This Site Proves Daily, Stupid is Not a Crime
Tourist lady #1: Hey look, there’s the Statue of Liberty!
Tourist lady #2: Then that must be Alcatraz!
–flight into LaGuardia
Overheard by: Jennifer
Tourist lady: Will we get to stop off at the Statue of Liberty on this bus trip?
–49th & Broadway
Overheard by: Brooke Rachel
Give Me Some Head with Hair?
Tourist to woman handing out fans promoting Hair: What is this?
Woman: It’s, you know, a fan. So you can blow yourself.
–Broadway & 46th
Overheard by: Dain
And It Goes With My Top
Man to friend: What's with the man bag?
Friend: It's not a man purse, it's a satchel!
–NYU Medical Center
Overheard by: Anthony
That Is, Like Powdered Joy
Guy #1: You have a problem with that shit.
Guy #2: I don’t like doing coke, I just like the way it smells.
–Astoria
Overheard by: Chris Nixon
Never Let That Stop You Before
Student: Once at the restaurant I saw a guy take a picture of one the kids with his camera phone. And I had no idea what to do…
Professor: Well, I can't talk about that with you because… That's weird.
–Pratt Institute