NYU chick: What are these stupid, weird underpants you put on me?
West Indian nurse lady: They’re called diapers. You lost control of yourself when you passed out.
–Beth Israel Emergency Room, 1st Avenue
Suit: Can you move a little?
Teen girl: I can’t. My hair’s stuck in the door.
Suit: Oh. That’s a good reason. Okay.
–L train
A black HS girl pushes her way past a white yuppie to get off the train.
Yuppie: Whoa, slow down, Boniva!
Girl: Shut the fuck up, Opie!
–L train
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Girl: If you were going to die twenty minutes from now, what would
you do?
Guy #1: I’d take you into the back and do you. What about you?
Girl: Yeah, I’d probably have sex with you, too.
Guy #2: I think I’d rape someone.
–Coney Island Boardwalk
Overheard by: Gradie Smith
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Guy #1: Polo is like, the hardest sport to play on the planet.
Guy #2: Uh huh.
Girl: Aside from space travel.
–Columbia University
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- Columbia University, Sports, Street, Students, Stupidity
Girlfriend: It’s just that I give you pristine vagina and you give me used books.
Boyfriend: Your gratitude is staggering.
–D train
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- Boyfriends, Girlfriends, On the Subway, Relationships, Vagina
Guy: Man it would suck to be homeless. I would just kill someone and go to prison where at least you get a nice warm place to sleep and some food and shit.
Girl: Or you could steal some stuff, that way if you don’t get caught it’s awesome and if you do you get to go to a nice warm prison.
Guy: Yeah, prison in the US is pretty sweet, I’d bet–not like in other countries.
Girl: Except there is a lot of talk about ass-raping.
–24th & 9th
Guy: These train drivers have to be suicidal. They spend all day underground in the dark.
Girl: Yeah, or they’re just vampires.
–N Train
Overheard by: Owen J
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Girl: So we could hook up, or go to dinner.
Guy: Well, I don’t know. Is the sushi really that good?
–outside Nobu, Hudson Street
Overheard by: Michael
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- Bars & Clubs, Bimbettes, Ethnic Food, Guys, Questions
Teen boy #1: Whoa, you know what I just realized? ATM is MTA backwards.
Teen boy #2: What’s MTA?
–Flushing
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Girl: Oh hey, that’s my high school mascot!
Guy: What, a black woman?
–8th & Broadway
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