“Pretty Wednesday One-Liner, Walkin' Down the Street…”

Drunken skinny pretty girl: Why is she so mean? I mean I'm a skinny pretty girl. She should not be mean to me!

–Halloween Party, Tribeca

Drunken hobo to girl leaving Sephora: Let me tell ya how to look beautiful. Fill ya buckets with money. Bucketfulla money makes ya look beautiful.

–17th St

Overheard by: Lillian

Voice on loudspeaker: Last call for pretty man. Last call to board for pretty man.

–LaGuardia Airport

Overheard by: Jen

60-something woman to tenor, after La Traviata: Finally, an Alfredo who is good-looking!

–Stage Door, Metropolitan Opera

Hobo: I was voted best-looking bum by bum weekly 1996.

–45th & 3rd

Posted on August 4, 2010
Advice, Airports, All Wednesday One-Liners, Artists, Beauty, Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Girls, Hobos, Homeless, LaGuardia Airport, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, One-liners, Parades & Festitivites, Physical appearance, Singing, Skinny People, Strangers, Stupidity, Theater, Union Square and East Village, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Wednesday One-Liners, Women

Sex, Therapy and Interrogation All Require the Same Skills

Girl: Listen to me!
Asian emo boy: What?
Girl: This is what you need to do with your girlfriend so you can fuck her better!

–Mott Street

Posted on July 31, 2010
Advice, Asians, Chinatown, Girls, Sex

Towelie: I Am So Wednesday One-Linered Right Now

Wide-eyed woman on cell: Is it the drugs that are doing this to me?

–St Mark's & Ave A

Guy going superfast on a bike with eyes closed and feet on handlebars: Oh, man, I'm trippin'! Oh, god, I'm shroomin'!

–Delancey St

Professor: Take that Ritalin-Scotch-heroin cocktail… With a pop-tart!

–Pratt Institute

Overheard by: Denali

Flyer guy: Anyone want to help support my drug habit?

–Times Square

Girl with group of friends: You can be a responsible drug addict… I had two jobs and went to college.

–Jane & 4th St

Overheard by: M Tod

Barnard girl: So my grandparents gave me one of those Visa gift card things for $50 for Valentine's Day… What the fuck am I going to spend $50 on, if it's not drugs?

–The Diana Center, Barnard College

Stephen Colbert, after flubbing a line during filming: I'm high. (audience laughs) Don't blog that!

–Colbert Report Studios, 54th St

Overheard by: Allison

Posted on July 21, 2010
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Alphabet City, B-List, College, Columbia (& Barnard), Drinking & Drunk People, Drugs, Education, Family Ties, Flyer people, Food, Friends, Girls, Guys, Heroin, Insults, Jobs & Careers, Laughter, Lower East Side, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, Offers and requests, On Cell, One-liners, Panhandling, Questions, School and studying, Sensory Experiences, Sorority Girls, Street, Teachers/Professors, Times Square, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, West Village, Women

But I'm More Important Than Most!

Conductor: I know you all are in a hurry, and you are all very important, but we need to close the train doors or we ain't goin' nowhere.
Woman: I can't get in! Move in, people!
Conductor: Giiiiirl, let me tell you right now, no way in hell you're gonna fit. Step off and back it up, sistah. The train's moving.

–1 Train

Overheard by: Kris

Posted on July 11, 2010
Advice, Conductors, On the Subway, Passengers, Public Transportation

The Bronx Is Full Of Marsupials

Woman #1: Be careful. There's a possum with babies in my backyard.
Woman #2, with dog: But I never walk my dog in your yard.
Woman #1: Be careful. You never know where they'll land.

–Pelham Bay Park

Overheard by: Francyne Pelchar

Posted on July 9, 2010
Advice, Animals & Nature, Man's Best Friend, Parks, The Bronx, Women

The Way Vampires Hate Garlic

Handsome straight guy: I don't know. Gay boys really like me. I don't know how to repel them.
Girl: You can throw candy at them.
Handsome straight guy: Huh?
Girl: Gay boys hate fatty foods.

–St Mark's Place

Overheard by: Ilikecandy

Posted on July 8, 2010
Advice, Diet/Weight, Food, Gays and Lesbians, Gender issues, Girls, Guys, Lower East Side

Well If You Want to Get All Technical About It!

Book vendor: Stay dry now!
Woman with umbrella: Eh, a little rain won't melt me.
Book vendor: Yeah, I think you're too sweet for that.
Woman with umbrella: Oh, I think sweet things are the ones that melt.

–W 8th St & 6th Ave

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on July 3, 2010
Advice, Compare/Contrast, Compliments, The Village, Vendors & Street Performers, Weather, Women

What Have You Herd?

Girl: It's the one thing my father taught me: always be faster than your slowest friend.
Guy: Was your father a gazelle?

–12th St & Broadway

Posted on June 22, 2010
Advice, Animals & Nature, Family Ties, Friendship, Girls, Guys, Parents, Questions, The Village

Americans Are Always Arguing About Their Rights

Passerby to driver making illegal turn: No red on right in Manhattan!
Driver: Well, I'm from Philly, so whatever!

–44th St

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on June 19, 2010
Advice, Cars and Driving, Conductors, Crime and Punishment, Foreigners, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Strangers

Wednesday One-Liners Don't Always Add Up

Conductor: We have eleven cars today. If we only have five cars tomorrow, don't have short term memory loss and say, "five cars, this happens all the time."

–Metro North

Hot dog vendor to guys standing behind stand: 100 times I've fucked, and have 98 kids.

–Outside Metropolitan Museum of Art

Teen hipster girl to friend : On a scale of one to ten, how many cars are coming?

–33rd St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Erika

Angry man on cell: Don't talk to me like that! I'll leave you! I will leave you! You know how many women there are in this world? (pause) A thousand!

–45th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Native Ear