Control-Alt-Wednesday One-Liners

Lady with no teeth to bathroom attendant: I love your sparkly eyeshadow! The doctor who did my second abortion had the same eyeshadow!

–Public Restroom, Bryant Park

Overheard by: Slydell

Girl on cell: I would rather have diabetes than get an abortion.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Kári Emil

Asian hipster girl: Abortion, abortion, abortion, Aids!

–NYU Dorm

Overheard by: i'll take the next elevator

Teen on cell: I've never been a fan of abortion, but if we could just make this little mistake go away.

–Penn Station

Hipster girl to friends: I mean, I think it should be a choice. Like, I'm not pro-abortion. Actually, I am pro-abortion. I think we should all have been aborted. Our parents made the wrong choice.

–2 Train

Guy on cell: I've pooped in the bushes and an abortion clinic, but never on the floor.

–The Gate, Park Slope

Overheard by: Nathan

Posted on October 14, 2009
Abortion, AIDS, All Wednesday One-Liners, Asians, Bars & Clubs, Bryant Park, Clerks, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Friends, Girls, Guys, Hipsters, Illness, Makeup, NYU, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Parents, Park Slope, Parks, Penn Station, Poop, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Teens, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

At the Procreation Quarterfinals, There Was No Winner.

Girl #1: So this is gonna be his fourth! So I told Malek, he shouldn't made me get rid of my baby because then I woulda been ahead of that bitch! Damn!
Girl #2: Yeah, I hear you…

–137th & Broadway

Posted on May 22, 2009
Abortion, Babies, Girls, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Nicknames & name calling, Threats

How You Know It's Time to Distract Your Child with Ice Cream

Small boy: So abortion isn't like killing, it's like stopping?
Small boy's mother: Yes, honey…it's all very complicated, but, some people think that a baby can't be killed when it's inside the womb because it's not really a baby yet.
Small boy: So, it's not a baby till it's out?
Small boy's mother: That's right.
Small boy: And then we can kill them?

–M103 Bus

Overheard by: Lilly

Posted on May 17, 2009
Abortion, Bus, Compare/Contrast, Kids, Moms, Murder, On the Bus, Parents, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Questions, Should've Used a Condom

Two More and She Gets a Set Of Steak Knives

Guy #1: So I heard Tina is getting that abortion.
Guy #2: Ya, it's her eighth one.

–Times Square

Overheard by: jake kirby

Posted on May 12, 2009
Abortion, Guys, Rumor Has It, Times Square, Weirdness

To Be Fair, Nobody's Stock Is Any Good Right Now

Girl: How's your sister?
Doucherocket maximus: She just had a miscarriage, which was good because we didn't want her to breed with him.

–A Train

Overheard by: Sabrina

Posted on April 16, 2009
Abortion, Assholes, Family Ties, Girls, On the Subway, Questions, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

Guess What Peewee's Word Of the Day Is?

Ditzy white girl standing in line: Ugh. It's, like, so much effort to get fresh produce.
Ditzy friend #1: I agree! Should we abort?
Ditzy friend #2: Yes! Abort!
Ditzy friend #1: Abort!
Ditzy friend #3: Abort!

–Union Square Greenmarket

Overheard by: office peon

Posted on April 16, 2009
Abortion, Friends, Girls, Union Square and East Village, Vegetarian & Vegan, Weirdness

Thank Goodness We Don't Actually Have to Know Anything About Their Bodies

Yuppie guy: God, I can't even finish this. I feel completely bloated, like some chick. Disgusting.
Hipster guy: You feel like a chick?
Yuppie guy: Yeah…you know, like all girls get once a month: Bitchy, bloated, and popping those pills.
Hipster guy: You mean, like, the abortion pill?

–Pizza Shop, E 34th & 1st St

Posted on February 26, 2009
Abortion, Compare/Contrast, Food, Gender issues, Hipsters, Menstruation, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Stupidity, Yuppies

200 Wednesday One-Liners, and Nothing to Watch!

Girl on phone (after finding out there was a medical emergency on the first car): Yeah, apparently there's an emergency in the front car. I mean, I just finished watching the first season of Grey's Anatomy, maybe I can help.

–LIRR

Overheard by: Andres

Man to friend: And that's why I like to get stoned and watch the Julia Child show. She's not as shy as you'd think.

–Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Wants to know why!

Crazy man (in a normal voice) Look at the three white women! (in a high falsetto) Let's go shopping! Then let's go fucking! Let's get abortions! Just like Sex and the City!

–Hudson & Charles

Overheard by: lilli

Latina: He was stuck in the garbage can like Screech in a locker.

–Washington Heights

Overheard by: TOD

Hobo walking by Law & Order set: I wanna be on Law & Order. I can play a cop!

–94th St & Central Park West

Overheard by: Sargeant Pants

Woman, stopping dead in her tracks in front of a poster for the new version of Beverly hills 90210: Uh oh… Oh no… Uh oh…

–86th St & Lexington

Overheard by: Julia

Posted on October 15, 2008
Abortion, All Wednesday One-Liners, Brooklyn, Compare/Contrast, Cops, Crazies, Fears, Girls, Jobs & Careers, Men, On Cell, Race, Sex, Shopping, Trains Not Subway, TV, Upper East Side, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Washington Heights and Inwood, Weed, West Village, Wishes & desires

There Really Are Better Methods of Contraception

Hipster white guy: You got mad abortion issues, yo!
Hipster white chick: Yeah.

–Motor City Bar

Posted on September 15, 2008
Abortion, Bars & Clubs, Default, Girls, Guys, Hipsters, Lower East Side, Weirdness, White People

Thus Concluding My Responsibility in the Matter

Young thug poser: I gotta go to my cousin's house tomorrow. She's always vomiting.
Friend: Yo, she's pregnant!
Thug: Naw, I already told her to take care of that shit, take that Plan B shit.

–7 Train

Overheard by: Katie

Posted on August 15, 2008
Abortion, Advice, Default, Family Ties, Friends, On the Subway, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Thugs, Vomit