Californian boy: Dude, why are you always running to like 50 different places a day?
New York geeky girl: Because my brain is programed to run New Yorker 10.0 and yours is Californian 4.20. Similar operating systems, only we get stuff done on time, don’t wear sandals to work, and are frankly just slightly superior to everybody.
–N Train
Overheard by: allyse
Woman wearing polo and running shorts: I’m stylin’, honey!
Husband: That’s what Rihanna wears.
–69th St & Lexington
Tourist dude: What’s a…knish?
Tourist chick: I think it’s like…a Hot Pocket?
–42nd & Park
Overheard by: JayBee
Homeless man with fake gold teeth: Can you lovely people please spare some change, a sandwich, or some water?
Woman: Oh my god… It’s Flavor Flav!
Homeless man: If that’s going to help me get a sandwich, then yeah, I am Flaaavor Flaaav.
–Downtown 2 train
Overheard by: Monica Lake
White girl: Man, I’m sweating like a Jew in the Holocaust!
White guy: Yeah, and I’m sweating like a nigga on a rape charge.
–G train
Overheard by: hot and sweaty
Art magazine-type girl #1: I guess some guy was touching her ass.
Art magazine-type girl #2: What? I can’t believe it. I’ve been riding the 4 and the 5 for like, six years, and no one ever touches my ass.
Art magazine-type girl #1: Really? I don’t know. Maybe when it gets warmer you should wear a sarong. I definitely get felt up more when I wear a sarong.
Art magazine-type girl #2: OK, I will.
–Park Ave. South & 21st
Woman: So the subway in Abu Dhabi is pretty convenient?
Man: Yeah, but the only thing I don’t understand is how they can put a subway on an island.
Woman, after a long pause: Think about it.
–1 train, Christopher St
NYU boy: Hey, Adam Duritz from Counting Crows is outside Hayden on his cell phone!
NYU girl: Uh, well.. I almost got killed by a fucking snow globe!
–Washington Square West
Hipster theater chick: Seriously, I have like the best vagina of anyone I know. I have the Idina Menzel of vaginas.
Hipster chick’s friend: What does that even mean?
Hipster theater chick: You know Idina Menzel. Big lips, big mouth, sings like she’s having an orgasm. That’s my vagina. It’s called “Idina.“
Hipster chick’s friend: Isn’t she the one who played The Green Witch? So your vagina’s green?
Hipster theater chick: Shut up. It’s not green. It’s the Broadway of vaginas, I tell you!
Hipster chick’s friend: Who names their vagina after a green witch? You’re so fucked up..
–American Airlines Theater
Overheard by: Hannah
Girl: So you fucked my ex?
Gay guy: I’m sorry, I was wasted! (starts crying)
Girl: He was mine, dammit! We’re definitely not shopping tomorrow.
–Union Square
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist